Posted in Doc Smith, Movies, Sci-Fi on January 12, 2008 | No Comments »
Ron Howard in Talks for the Lensman Series
Huh, not sure how I feel about this, but chances of it happening are still pretty slim anyway. They’d have to write pretty much all new dialogue, that’s for damn sure… but would that ruin the charm?
Posted in Cool Stuff, Doc Smith, Sci-Fi on September 26, 2007 | No Comments »
I have made no secret of my great love for the works of E. E. “Doc” Smith. I am currently one book away from finishing his classic Lensman series, and still can’t get over the wonderful way that he merges incredibly cool and imaginative ideas, exciting storytelling, immense grandeur, and extremely fun corniness.
So I was [...]
Posted in Doc Smith, Reviews, Sci-Fi on September 15, 2007 | No Comments »
Hey everyone, I’m back-ish. My time for personal reading has gone down considerably during the last few weeks (thankfully, however, I’ve been reading some pretty cool stuff for school: expect a write-up of the Sundiata epic soon) but I’ve managed to get it in where I can. For example, I just recently finished up the [...]
Posted in Doc Savage, Doc Smith, Himes, Pulp, Reviews, The Shadow, Thriller on August 29, 2007 | No Comments »
He felt something explode off the back of his head, and he sank to his hands and knees, bolts of pain radiating through his body like the energy waves broadcasting from the RKO Studios’ theatrical emblem.
- The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril, p. 281-282
I really am pretty mad at myself for waiting so long to read [...]
Posted in Doc Smith, Sci-Fi on June 12, 2007 | No Comments »
Having just finished reading Gray Lensman today (I already used its cover in my last post on the subject, so here’s Galactic Patrol instead) I felt the urge to share a certain thought that’s been running through my head since fairly early in the Lensman series.
Maybe this kind of musing is better left to the [...]
Posted in Doc Smith, Sci-Fi on June 11, 2007 | No Comments »
I must admit that I’m a relative newcomer to science fiction (not on purpose, Lord knows, it just somehow happened that way) so when I just recently got a real start on reading the genre I decided, after becoming interested, to start at the beginning.
Not the beginning meaning Welles and Verne (although I have already [...]
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