![]() Each faction is, in fact, the pawn of a different race of Sufficiently Advanced Aliens who each have a grand plan for the sentient beings of the universe. (Smith rewrote and expanded Triplanetary, serialized in 1934 in Amazing Stories, to serve as a prequel to the main series.) It describes the epic battle between Good and Evil as personified by Civilization (and their sponsors, Arisia) and Boskone (and their sponsors, Eddore), respectively. The series was assembled from Galactic Patrol, a serial published in Astounding Stories magazine from 1937 onwards. ![]() This makes the series a must-read for anyone interested in the genesis of Science Fiction. ![]() "Doc" Smith counts as one the earliest Space Operas, and, therefore, the Trope Maker of many of the conventions used by the genre. "Holy Klono's tungsten teeth and curving carballoy claws!" ![]()
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