Thread: Whither SF?
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Old 05-10-2012, 07:42 PM   #112
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Originally Posted by BeccaPrice View Post
Now reading this thread has me (re)listening to the Skylark books by E. E. Smith. Not very well read, I don't think, the narration style almost sounds 1940s-ish, but enjoyable anyway. And they don't have the political baggage (for me) that the Lensman books have.
Political baggage? The "militaristic sf" stuff or something else?

I always found Skylark to be a bit more atavistic than Lensmen. (Which it was, being two decades older.) Although I really enjoyed the latter renditions of Blackie DuQuesne.
Maybe its that I found Clarissa more interesting than Dottie.
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