Doug Freyburger wrote:
> It does make very good sense to call B5 a grown up vision of
> the Lensmen series.

Or the Lensmen series' evil twin.

> The Lensmen series has all of the plot sophistication of the Star
> Wars movies and just as much action.

I should say that the plot is somewhat stronger -- more coherent, at least.

> But if I had my druthers I'd want Skylark of Space.  Nobody
> expects the Fenachrome!  Since it's less well known and just as
> epic, it would have room for all sorts of material.

I don't know that it's less well known. It is generally thought to be 
the inferior because the driving force behind the Skylark series is a 
lot of made-up physics that no one today can take seriously, and the 
plot has no real direction beyond, "Dick Seaton has another adventure", 
whereas the driving force behind the Lensmen series is artificial 
psionics (which may not really exist, but at least we can't say, "This 
is wrong!"), and there is one overarching plot.
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