Triplanetary - Audiobook by E. E. Smith

TRIPLANETARY
By E. E. Smith
An audiobook read by Mark F. Smith
Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction, General Fiction, Science Fiction

Edward Elmer Smith, Ph.D. (May 2, 1890 � August 31, 1965) was an American food engineer (specializing in doughnut and pastry mixes) and early science fiction author, best known for the Lensman and Skylark series. He is sometimes called the father of space opera.

Triplanetary is a science fiction novel and space opera by American writer E. E. Smith. It was first serialized in the magazine Amazing Stories in 1934. After the original four novels of the Lensman series were published, Smith expanded and reworked Triplanetary into the first of two prequels for the series. The expanded Triplanetary was published in book form in 1948 by Fantasy Press. The second prequel, First Lensman, was a new original novel published in 1950 by Fantasy Press.

The novel covers several episodes in an eons-long human breeding project by the super-intelligences of the Arisians. This alien race is breeding two genetic lines to become the ultimate weapon in Arisia's cosmic war with their arch-enemies, the Eddorians. The initial chapters cover the Kinnison genetic line during the fall of Atlantis and Nero's reign in Rome. These tales were inserted into the novel following the serialized release, along with chapters covering members of the Kinnison line in World Wars One, Two, and Three.

The final chapter of Triplanetary tells of the discovery of the inertialess drive that allows faster-than-light travel. Patrolman Conway Costigan and his friends engage in a space battle with Gray Roger the pirate gangster. This conflict is complicated by the arrival of the technologically superior, extra-Solar, amphibian-like Nevians, resulting in the first interstellar war involving humans. In this story Virgil Samms and Roderick Kinnison, important members of the two breeding lines, are introduced.

Index:
01 - 00:00:00 - Pirates of Space
02 - 00:41:13 - In Roger's Planetoid
03 - 01:18:06 - Fleet Against Planetoid
04 - 01:43:29 - Within the Red Veil
05 - 02:24:02 - Nevian Strife
06 - 03:03:57 - Worm, Submarine, and Freedom
07 - 03:19:17 - The Hill
08 - 03:46:26 - The Super-Ship Is Launched
09 - 04:00:26 - Specimens
10 - 04:10:41 - The Boise Acts
11 - 04:44:16 - Roger Carries On
12 - 05:17:48 - The Specimens Escape
13 - 05:56:37 - The Meeting of the Giants

Additional information:
- This audiobook is from Librivox. All Librivox recordings are in the public domain.
- Running Time: 06:25:24
- Read by: Mark F. Smith
- Book Coordinator: Mark F. Smith
- Meta Coordinator: David Lawrence
- Proof Listener: Ans Wink

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[youaregodspursuit-]

I have read sci fi since 1959. Somehow, I missed this one. Thanks for refreshing that sense of being part of a crew that fought until they overcame or died valiantly. The friends I made in these kinds of stories helped me through the terrible teens. I feel good again!

[kingforaday]

Dont know why but Ive noticed many folks are first exposed to this series with Galactic Patrol, including me. I couldnt put the book down and finished it in two days. This was mid 60's and I was 13 years old. At the front of the book was a list of "other books from this author". I was totally elated and immediately checked a local used book store and found Triplanetary. I was a kid coming from Andre Norton and Hugh Walters.

[AMGOSUK]

EE Doc Smith is an under rated sci-fi author. He wrote 2 space opera series: Lensmen (starting with this book) and Skylark - both are compelling. He also wrote the first 2 books in the sub space series. The second (“Encounter”) was published posthumously in 1983.

[arcbody]

A masterpiece book by one of the few masters of the space opera genre.

[ThePirrotta]

FANTASTIC!! Remember reading these books when I was 8 yrs old. So glad I found them again!!

[CB-RADIO-UK]

This guy has the best reading voice in the business.

[AllanGildea]

Thank you, beautiful story, excellent voice artist.

[JohnDoe-zfzm]

I haven't read this one in this one in 60 years now that's what I call a narrator excellent job book was a lot of fun highly recommend

[chrisp]

I'll listen to anything with Mark w Smith reading

[adart]

Loved the 1930s slang, remind me of my grandfather.

[patinho]

The entire lensmen series is amazing.
I have only read the last 2 (or 3 if you count masters of the vortex). It’s amazing!

[Catramos]

Excellent reading and voice acting. Sounds as if one of the best professionals were reading. Thank you.

[stevesyncox]

Thanks very much, that was a great story, easy to listen too.

[maxroman]

Good reader. This book has the wonderful sound of literary antiquity. I'm guessing the 1960's

[paulwhitbread]

Remember reading the Lensman series many years ago and feeling so happy an excited. Sounds a little sexiest now lol love all the EE Doc Smith Books.

[Keetha]

I'm literally 12 years old and I love it!

[douglasrunde]

TRIPLANETARY
By E. E. Smith
An audiobook read by Mark F. Smith
Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction, General Fiction, Science Fiction

[jimmywrangles]

Not scifi unless there's a ship called Hyperion.

[johnholligan]

Wonderful to hear this, reminds me of why I started reading sci-fy thank you

[jwarmstrong]

1934 book in the Buck Rogers era - space was full of ether...nuclear energy, lasers, spaceships & LCD panels had not been invented. No iron or steel is used on spacecraft - aluminum & titanium plus composite materials are used.