I already have a copy of the first Dune novel (*technically a tie in to the Lynch film, but that shouldn’t matter) so I’ll probably start there, I own most of the John Carter novels an have already read the first two, and I’m also a big Kurosawa fan already and I have seen pretty much 90% of his films.
I’ll keep VCI in mind when looking for Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers (although I’ll stick to YouTube at the moment), and I’ll do some more research on Lensman and Eric John Stark (both of whom I’d never heard of before).
Thanks for the help.
I forgot to ask about the Asimov books that ATMachine brought up earlier. I looked up the Foundation series, and I’m quite frankly more confused now than I was before I looked it up. Apparently a lot of books are in the Foundation-universe, but most of them don’t relate to the main trilogy. So I’m guessing that the trilogy is where I should start?
Since I’m using SW as an excuse to get into these book, I’ll ignore anything made past 1977 for now at least.
The origins of Star Wars : http://kitbashed.com
Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for.
I actually read an article on kitbashed.com a few days ago, but it was about kitbashing for SW so I just assumed that it was a model-making webpage. In retrospect however, I guess kitbashing is actually a pretty good description for what Lucas did when he wrote SW.
EE “Doc” Smith’s Lensman space-opera
I’ve been wracking my brain trying to remember what these books are called for a couple days now. Many thanks.
So what exactly is a “Lensman”?
(It kind of surprised me when I first read it, because for me as a Norwegian I can’t help but think about the Scandiavian “lensmann” which is essentially a rural area police officer.)