Before there was Star Wars, there was The Galactic Patrol. Before there were the Jedi Knights, there were the Lensmen. And before there was Luke Skywalker, there was Kimball Kinnison. Second Stage Lensmen is the fifth book in the quintessential space operatic lensman series. Captain ILL is very fond of this rip-roaring, pulpish science fiction series. Here good guys are always good, and it was always easy to tell the bad guys because they looked like bad guys. Evil always got the boot, or in this case the raygun, of justice. Lensmen were courageous, incorruptible, and supremely competent ... just like Captain ILL. And of course there were spaceships with coruscating jets, starkly improbable planet-crushing superweapons, lots of cool gadgets, but none of those sissy lightsabers.
Monday, July 21, 2008
Interlibrary Loan of the Friday
Before there was Star Wars, there was The Galactic Patrol. Before there were the Jedi Knights, there were the Lensmen. And before there was Luke Skywalker, there was Kimball Kinnison. Second Stage Lensmen is the fifth book in the quintessential space operatic lensman series. Captain ILL is very fond of this rip-roaring, pulpish science fiction series. Here good guys are always good, and it was always easy to tell the bad guys because they looked like bad guys. Evil always got the boot, or in this case the raygun, of justice. Lensmen were courageous, incorruptible, and supremely competent ... just like Captain ILL. And of course there were spaceships with coruscating jets, starkly improbable planet-crushing superweapons, lots of cool gadgets, but none of those sissy lightsabers.
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