[Sca-cooks] Something Different? OOP, OT

[Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Patrick McKinnion:
>     One of these days, I need to sit down and read Doc Smith.   Have never
>had the chance to.....(I know, almost 20 years in fandom, and I've neglected
>that part of my education....)

They're the original, Dolby-sound Space Operas, AFAIK. Only Flash
Gordon and Buck Rogers (which latter originally doesn't take place in
space, much, anyway, as I recall) predate the Lensman books, and I
am, of course, discounting writers like Wells and Verne, who, while
they wrote stories about space, weren't quite the same thing.

All's I remember about Smith (it's been a long time) is that it is
_loud_, like a Paul Verhoeven movie (isn't he the one who said you
can't make a successful action movie without at least one explosion?)
is loud. For all the blasting Delameter pistols and rifles, it is
real science fiction inasmuch as math and scientific speculation
figure into the plot.

But give me Larry Niven, Joe Haldeman, or David Brin any day.

>Red meat isn't bad for you. Fuzzy, blue-green meat is bad for you.

OSCAR: Okay, I got some green sandwiches and some brown sandwiches.
Who wants one?
ROY: What are the green ones?
OSCAR: They're either very new cheese or very old meat.
ROY: I'll take a brown one.
	NEIL SIMON, "The Odd Couple", 1965

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