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baritsu6
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  		   Posted 7/24/2005 10:46 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
can anyone help with info anf breif description of these two short stories by doc smith, i am told that they are sword and sorcery. i have not heard of them previously--thanks, ralph

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I've never heard of them, but now that I have I also want to know about them, I love E.E. Smith.
Mike

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  		   Posted 7/24/2005 4:35 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Sorry Ralph, can't help you on that one. I read a lot of Smith as a kid, courtesy of Skylark reprints, but don't know much beyond that.

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Hey Ralph,

These are old-school Space Opera of the Vortex Blasters school.
I believe they were "completed", from E.E. Smith's notes, by Gordon Ecklund.

I was a serious Lensman fan in my youth (loved them so much I could never bring myself to read the last volume and see the series come to an end), but I didn't enjoy the first Tedric much when I read it way back when.
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  		   Posted 7/25/2005 8:54 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
quote:
Originally posted by baritsu6

can anyone help with info anf breif description of these two short stories by doc smith, i am told that they are sword and sorcery. i have not heard of them previously--thanks, ralph

ralph grasso


- Still have the book 'Lord Tedric' somewhere. It had some good ideas, scientists going back in time to change the past in order to save the future. Giving their ancestors technology (Steel, gold leif, etc) As I recall it was only OK. A little too stogy and schmaltzy.
- I much preferred 'Lord Kalvin of Otherwhen'. 20th century cop transported to the alternate 16th century. Wuuuuf! Still waiting for someone to think to make it into a movie instead of re-making Gilligan's Island[:(!]

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  		   Posted 7/25/2005 2:14 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
gents, i am talking about the original tedric stories from the pulp mags, not the ecklund " played with" novels-----my understanding is that there is magic and swordplay involved--ralph

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  		   Posted 7/25/2005 4:48 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Ralph,
I find it hard to credit since Smith was such a . . .grounded hard science man. Ball's to the wall falming adrenalin junky story teller but a hard science man through and through. I think of his personal circle of writing friends, Heinlien, Hubbard, and some others and none of them were what you call writers of mystery and fascination, though they each did touch on that occasionally (Hoag and Magic inc for RAH, for ex.) but even then they read like hard science fiction, mostly. And so does Smith. I'd love to see the stories you speak of but I shouldn't wonder if it turns out the reason no one has is because that Smith, so far out of his overa, didn't do that great a job on them.
Mike

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  		   Posted 7/25/2005 5:45 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
michael, pick up THE BEST OF DOC E.E. SMITH---ralph

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