There's a reason I described the ancient civs in the setting I'm
working on as "Going Full-Lensmen". And why the setting in general is
"post-Lensmen".

On 9/29/17, (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
> On 28 Sep 2017 at 11:34, C. Berry wrote:
>
>>
>> Smith did something like this in one of the later "Lensman" books. The
>> good guys found two planets with large and opposite momenta with
>> respect to the target bad-guy world, installed ginormous inertialess
>> drives on each of them, maneuvered them into position on either side
>> of the target world, and then turned off the drive. Even at 15, this
>> struck me as being just a teeny bit over the top, but it got the job
>> done. :)
>
> Eh, that's only about mid-range for Doc Smith.
>
> Later on he has planet-sized negaspheres, and "sunbeams"
>
> Then in Children of the Lens, he has planets from an alternate
> universe that have *inert* FTL velocities. Thos made a mess out of
> the star system(s) they were used on.
>
> And then we look at the Skylark series. In Skylark Duquesne, we have
> them tossing suns around and destroyng a *galaxy*.
> --
> Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
> shadow at shadowgard dot com
>
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