E. E. Smith
3 Bücher
- If you can grin at 1950s pulp dialogue and heroes who are incorruptible on purpose, watching Virgil Samms trek to Arisia for the first Lens, then fight drug rings and a rigged election, is honest fun. Come to it wanting scope and momentum, not subtlety.
- You get a wonderfully pulpy blend of laboratory tinkering and interplanetary adventure, with Richard Seaton’s inventive optimism set against DuQuesne’s cold ambition. The science can be gloriously hand-wavy and the prose dated, but the sheer momentum makes it easy to see why space-opera writers kept returning to it.
- You get unapologetic early space opera: Conway Costigan and Clio Marsden hurtle through interplanetary intrigue while civilizations become pieces in a much larger struggle. The science is gloriously dated and the prose can be blunt, but the scale keeps expanding until ordinary adventure feels cosmically important.