The Galaxy Primes
They were four of the greatest minds in the Universe: Two men and two women, all Psionic Primes, 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... Here is E. E. Smith's classic science fiction novel -- one of ...more
Paperback, 156 pages
Published
June 26th 2007
by Wildside Press
(first published 1959)
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Well, I am quite fond of E.E. Smith's Skylark and Lensman books. I reread some of them recently, and had a blast.
Then I reread The Galaxy Primes. Oh, gods, but it's bad. I think it's Smith's attempt to write a romance, which is Smith's weakest literary point. The main characters are total Mary Sues: perfect of body and mind, godlike of power (viz. able to destroy planets with their psi powers), and, without exaggeration, the mightiest people in the whole galaxy and perhaps the whol...more
Then I reread The Galaxy Primes. Oh, gods, but it's bad. I think it's Smith's attempt to write a romance, which is Smith's weakest literary point. The main characters are total Mary Sues: perfect of body and mind, godlike of power (viz. able to destroy planets with their psi powers), and, without exaggeration, the mightiest people in the whole galaxy and perhaps the whol...more
Ah, old fashioned scifi space opera! Typical of E.E. "Doc" Smith, his heros and heroines are gorgeous hunks of men and women with stupendous mind powers and Boy Scout codes of ethics, out to bring order to the unruly universe. Untypical of Smith, this story is not all that good. The plot does not thicken so much as confuse. The characters are invested in bringing order to the universe in a very odd way and for reasons that are not all that clear. I think he tried to create a "...more
Not a bad representative from the "Golden Age" of Sci-Fi. Interesting that the challenge/antagonist is really the self in confronting a new technology: the good guys are their own bad guys.
Looking at this, I wonder if Smith intended the story to be about man's reaction as new technologies are discovered; the uncertainties, the immaturity, the self doubts that come when we encounter and need to adapt to new technologies.
Some of the character relations are dated, but in some w...more
Looking at this, I wonder if Smith intended the story to be about man's reaction as new technologies are discovered; the uncertainties, the immaturity, the self doubts that come when we encounter and need to adapt to new technologies.
Some of the character relations are dated, but in some w...more
Wow. Sometimes I forget that this stuff actually _is_ as badly written as I always make fun of it for being... And I start wondering how it got published and was popular, but then I remember that it was still pretty innovative to be talking about running around to other planets, so it doesn't really matter what you say about what was there, or how confused the author is about human relations, it would have seemed really cool. Though the imaginative bits actually read rather like someone writin...more
Bad. I mean really bad. Couldn't finish it and wanted back the time I put into it sort of bad, plus I would've thrown the book if I hadn't been reading it in electronic format. Unlikable, perfect, super-powered cardboard characters travel space at random for no very good reason. Reads like a cross between the Gor novels and a Flash Gordon serial, taking some of the worst from both. Needless to say, not recommended.
Haven't read a "Doc" Smith in quite a while, but I liked it. Technical, dated, interesting characters and a fertile mind, and still a lot of fun.
This didn't really go anywhere and the characters were pretty two dimensional. Reading this was a way to spend the time more than anything.
Every single one of his books is the same (and they are all equally preposterous), but that must be part of the charm.
Every single one of his books is the same (and they are all equally preposterous), but that must be part of the charm.
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