http://lurkingcanadian.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] lurkingcanadian.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] james_davis_nicoll 2012-07-01 01:10 am (UTC)

If I may extrapolate from my own experience, the best way to read the Lensmen books is to start before your brain reaches the age of reason.

I wanted to like them, I really did, but the parsecs-per-hour spacecraft, boarding axes, using planets as a big old Newton pendulum...I just couldn't make it.
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