MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Looong before Honor Harrington there was John Grimes on the Galactic Rim

bmr999 · 12-28-2012, 02:57 PM

If you haven't read the Lensmen series by EE "Doc" Smith, it substantially predates The Rim saga books, just as Smith predates Chandler. I already feel that I will enjoy the Rim/Grimes books a great deal, from your descriptions (and some vague recollections of reading a short story or book featuring Grimes, probably as a child).

Hopefully you all will reciprocate and read at least the 7-title Lensmen series, and thence on to other works by Doc Smith, who was a mentor and friend to a young Robert Heinlein back in the day. Anyone who enjoys well written Space Opera and MilSF will without a doubt enjoy Doc Smith and his larger than life take on, well, everything.

Thanks for posting, I look forward to making a new friend (besides Honor Harrington, with whom I am just now finally becoming acquainted).

12-28-2012, 02:57 PM	#5
bmr999 Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2012 Device: Kindle Fire (original)	I'll have to check out the Galactic Rim series, sounds like the Lensmen Space Operas. If you haven't read the Lensmen series by EE "Doc" Smith, it substantially predates The Rim saga books, just as Smith predates Chandler. I already feel that I will enjoy the Rim/Grimes books a great deal, from your descriptions (and some vague recollections of reading a short story or book featuring Grimes, probably as a child). Hopefully you all will reciprocate and read at least the 7-title Lensmen series, and thence on to other works by Doc Smith, who was a mentor and friend to a young Robert Heinlein back in the day. Anyone who enjoys well written Space Opera and MilSF will without a doubt enjoy Doc Smith and his larger than life take on, well, everything. Thanks for posting, I look forward to making a new friend (besides Honor Harrington, with whom I am just now finally becoming acquainted).