Triplanetary Audiobook by E.E. Doc Smith

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Title: Triplanetary
Subtitle: First in the Lensman Series
Author: E.E. Doc Smith
Narrator: Phil Chenevert
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-02-14
Publisher: Spoken Realms
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 8 votes
Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Classic

Publisher's Summary:
Triplanetary was first serialized in Amazing Stories in 1934. After the Lensman series became popular, Smith took his Triplanetary story and turned it into the first of the Lensman series, using it as a prequel to give the back story for the protaganists in the Lensmen series. He added six new chapters, doubling it in size and it's really a different book from the serialized novel, being published 14 years after the first. It was put into Gutenberg just last year.
The novel covers several episodes in an eons-long eugenics project of the super-intelligences of the Arisia. This alien race is breeding two genetic lines to become the ultimate weapon in Arisia's cosmic war with their arch enemy, the Eddore. The initial chapters cover the Kinnison genetic line during the fall of Atlantis and Nero's (Gharlane of Eddore) 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, two very important members of the eugenics project, are introduced. They will play the leading roles in the next story, First Lensman.

Members Reviews:
Amazing introduction to classic space opera.
Okay, it's sometimes hokey by today's standards but this is a classic example of one of the best of its day. This is not the best book of the series, but it is good and it is the introduction to the series that has had an influence on space adventure to this day. The scope of the series is grand. It is also a touchstone to an era in science fiction when it was believed that engineering could solve everything. The characters may seem outdated, especially when it comes to women, but again it is a product of the era in which it was written. No less than Robert Heinlein has praised "Doc" Smith and his stories. Great fun. I'd love to see a proper movie made of each novel in the series.

Important in the development of space opera, this novel ...
Important in the development of space opera, this novel forms the first volume in a vast epic in which two alien civilizations try to shape the human development to support either freedom or tyranny. The text moves through a series of characters and episodes before finding its place in the heroic saga of scientific warriors who find themselves forced to fight a race of amphibians from another solar system. Creaky in many ways but still entertaining, this book is very much a product of its time. It will be important for those wanting to see the development of early science fiction and the kind of space opera that ultimately led to Star Wars but there are plenty of contemporary texts in this genre that are likely to be more rewarding for most readers,

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