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| Posted By : baritsu6 - 7/24/2005 9:46 AM | 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 |
| Posted By : erazmus - 7/24/2005 10:09 AM | I've never heard of them, but now that I have I also want to know about them, I love E.E. Smith.
Mike
Michael D. Turner
"Psyched Up" in _Turn the other Chick_-ed. E. Friesner-Baen books
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| Posted By : jonesha - 7/24/2005 3:35 PM | 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.
best,
Howard
Managing Editor
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| Posted By : John Hocking - 7/25/2005 4:33 AM | 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. |
| Posted By : Rob Mancebo - 7/25/2005 7:54 AM | 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[:(!]
Rob
Adventure-History-Fantasy-Folklore
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| Posted By : baritsu6 - 7/25/2005 1:14 PM | 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
ralph grasso |
| Posted By : erazmus - 7/25/2005 3:48 PM | 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
Michael D. Turner
"Psyched Up" in _Turn the other Chick_-ed. E. Friesner-Baen books
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| Posted By : baritsu6 - 7/25/2005 4:45 PM | michael, pick up THE BEST OF DOC E.E. SMITH---ralph
ralph grasso |
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