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The Galaxy Primes
E. E. Smith
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They were four of the greatest minds in the Universe: Two men, two women, lost in an experimental spaceship billions of parsecs from home. And as they mentally charted the Cosmos to find their way back to earth, their own loves and hates were as startling as the worlds they encountered.
They were four of the greatest minds in the Universe: Two men, two women, lost in an experimental spaceship billions of parsecs from home. And as they mentally charted the Cosmos to find their way back to earth, their own loves and hates were as startling as the worlds they encountered.
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"You poor, abused little thing!" Garlock laughed and all three crossed the room to the dining alcove. While they were still ordering, James appeared beside them.
"Find out anything?" Garlock asked.
"Yes and no. Yes, in that they have an excellent observatory, with a hundred-eighty-inch reflector, on a mountain only seventy-five miles from here. No, in that I didn't find any duplication of nebulary configurations with the stuff I had with me. However, it was relatively coarse. Tomorrow I'll take a lot of fine stuff along. It'll take some time—a full day, at least."
"I expected that. Good going, Jim!"
All four ate heartily, and, after eating, they taped up the day's reports. Then, tired from their first real day's work in weeks, all went to their r. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
As anachronistic as they were, I really enjoyed Smith's Skylark and Galactic Patrol series, but this? This just doesn't cut it. It's basically a book about a bunch of sex-obsessed cosmic bullies (who call themselves, oh-so-modestly, "Primes") from Earth (or "Tellus" as Smith insists on calling it) t
Doc Smith is a bit of a guilty pleasure for me - I love the Lensman series and have read it multiple times, but the Skylark series is really not very good. This novel falls somewhere in between them.
There are echoes of the Lensman series here, although Doc Smith has a far more libertarian mindset sh
No likable characters. It's like every character is a Blackie duQuesne in personality. Ultimately in the service of Good, but still jerks.
I spent a lot of time in John Menzies, a newsagent-ish store in Dundee pondering what to spend my 50p on. I'd never heard the term Space Opera before but the blurb on the back of this novel got my attention. I'm sure I didn't pick it up on my first visit but after reading it and sniggering as someon
So, as a huge fan of Smith's work, I have to admit that this is my least favourite. There were several times that I felt that I wouldn't be able to finish it. It got better in parts, so it isn't a one star but...
While I will regularly go back and re-read the Lensman saga, and periodically reread the
The Galaxy Primes involves yet more "psionics", a common theme in Doc Smith's works. And like most Smith novels, it moves along with a lot of action. A team of mentally advanced people takes out an experimental space ship, and quickly gets lost in a vast universe. They do eventually figure out how t
This was an odd story, it had all the elements of a typical Doc Smith novel, but just not quite up to the level. In this one we find out that each planet has a pair of Primes, a man and a woman who have super ESP and other mental abilities beyond that of everyone else on the planet. The Earth primes
This is a weird book, you guys. Weird even by the standards of sixties science fiction, weird even in the career of E.E. "Doc" Smith. Which is not to say that it's a very good book, by either of those standards; but it pushes against the mores of time, place and genre in a way that's interesting if
Two things always strike me whenever I pick up a book by the Doc: the primeval attitudes towards gender and the casual acceptance of the normality of smoking. This, being one of his later books, doesn't take quite such a dismissive attitude to the role and capabilities of women ... but there's still