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Exactly what I expected. Classic early space opera as the redoubtable Lensmen of the Galactic Patrol battle with the dastardly pirates of Boskone. Nothing in this book is small. Everything is coruscating or ravening or speeding at impossible speeds. Even the spacesuits of the Patrol can travel at many times the speed of light--and the ships can cover parsecs in mere moments.
EE Doc Smith is about as close as anyone got to being the father of space opera, and writing in 1937-8, it's not at all sur ...more
EE Doc Smith is about as close as anyone got to being the father of space opera, and writing in 1937-8, it's not at all sur ...more

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