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Originally Posted by fjtorres
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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Oh, Clarissa is much more interesting than Dotty. Dottie and the other one (I forget her name) are still portrayed as being pretty competent in their own right.
The political baggage for me in the Lensman books is the unthinking genocide - whole planets and civilizations are destroyed with out thinking of the poor grunts who aren't involved in the zwilnik trade, but just happened to be living on one of those planets. And things are just done with no oversight, because they "need doing" and Our Side is of course the Good Guys. It's been years since I last read them (and so I'm probably due for a re-read) but there were just a bunch of things that stuck in my craw. The casual genocide is probably foremost though.
I've got 'em all (except Triplanetary) from Audible, so I've got some fun listening to do for the next however long it takes me to get sick of the narrator's THRILLING voice.