(February 25, 2019 at 2:06 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:(February 23, 2019 at 3:36 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Did you catch the bit where Kit Kinnison had four, and only four, choices for his future mate(s)?
I was thirteen and more into trying to move stuff with my mind like the lensmen.
Have you read the saga of the exiles? it has similar themes.
YAY Doc Smith!!!!!--Galaxy Primes too?
I came to sci fi when I was 18, via Edgar Rice Burroughs John Carter Of Mars series--then read a whole heap of back issues of various sci fi magazines**** That lead me to buy sci fi books. Always second hand. Gave away my entire collection, around 800 books, about 10 years ago when, I realised I was never going to read them again.
**that was where I first came across the notion of"God was an alien". In the late 1960's, I think 'a Russian scientist" wrote an article about "The Spaceship of Ezekiel"