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In response to those suggesting that dissecting the science in SF novels is redundant and possibly silly, I would argue for a dichotomy. Nothing except the promise of immortality…. Publication date Usage Public Domain Topics librivox , literature , audiobook , science fiction , Triplanetary , E. The final and most substantial story is a messy space saga with a contrived mix of space pirates, iron craving fish aliens and a ridiculous reliance on deus ex machina. I actually quite liked the alien race, the Nevians. Another example of a series that I sometimes struggle to read coming alive through the spoken word.

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I actually quite liked the alien race, the Nevians. Physics, time, and politics never stand in the way of a plot that gallops ahead without letup. The golden glow of summer afternoons in the garden and dimly-lit late nights in bed I had a thing then for dozing off while reading by candlelight - luckily no fires!

This isn't done very successfully, especially in the first few where it all seems very tacked on. I loved it, and still do.

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His girlfriend Clio triplaneatry even worse. After the sixth hour a bit more of a plot starts to develop, auduobook I'm still not sure if I would rate this novel as highly as master works like Asimov's Foundation series. So when I found a pile of the Lensman books sitting on trlplanetary of someone's trash while I was out walking the dog, it made sense to grab them.

Thus, in the book's first section, we see how the plan of the nearly immortal Arisians begins to play out, while Gharlane, one of the highest-ranking of the equally long-lived Eddorians, does everything it can to destroy and tear down.

No trivia or quizzes yet. He failed then, but the books somehow remained with me, always hovering at the edge of my consciousness. The book's second section, itself entitled "Triplanetary," had appeared as early as in Hugo Gernsback's "Amazing Stories" the first magazine dedicated solely to science fictionand had nothing to do with the future Lensman series whatsoever. Citizen of the Galaxy By: Written over the year period —it is the crowning creation of the man who has been called "The Father of Space Opera," and a series that has been embraced by generations of readers.

And I know not everyone wrote like that back in that day and age, so don't feed me the "His writing was a product of the time" line. When his parents abruptly summon him away from school on Earth to join them on Mars, he has no idea he's about to be plunged into deadly interplanetary intrigue. Three stars is a gift.

Unless your a talking beercan! The pacing is lightning quick, the action unrelenting.

But other technical inaccuracies are unintentionally hilarious. Stories of the future, told from the past.

I read these books when I was a teenager and thought them the best rip-roaring read I'd triplanetray had. As an audio book, Smith's stilted writing, especially about the emotions of the characters is not as bad. Triplanetary odd orbit A classic In science fiction. If you haven't read Smith before read them all. I'm not sure that the first half of the novel is necessary but at least we are warned of this in a preamble.

Triplanetary

I'll follow you to the end of time, oh! This book is not a paean to women's lib, but a very intense story in which women play a major, if secondary part. In a second story line, the amphibianlike denizens of the planet Nevia, triplanetarg the galaxy for the iron that is so scarce on their home world, attack the pirates' stronghold and later take Costigan, Clio and Bradley back to Nevia as prisoners. But he is different as well, with talents that maze even his fellow Dorsai.

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Smith sets up this stark contrast between good and evil triolanetary the first chapters as he sets up this universe's iconic mythos, as the kind, godlike Arisians work in secret to defeat the tyrannical, megalomaniacal Eddoreans. I don't even know what her job is.

So, instead of adding to audiiobook enjoyment of the story with sharp vocal characterisation, his narration confuses me as I try to work out whether the character he's vocalising is Virgil Samms, Granite jawed hero of the Universe, or Clio, perpetually demur love interest and air head.

I read this book some 35 years ago. The first few stories are alright taken as they are, an ancient Roman gladiator story, a war story, but not much SF to be found there.