On 2010-12-13 17:48:16 -0600, Duggy said:   
   > On Dec 14, 9:03 am, Kathryn Huxtable    
   > wrote:   
   >> I'd do it as a prequel, if at all.   
   >    
   > Fair enough.  Are you saying it's not worth it without trying to rope   
   > in Triplanetary or just not worth it unless you're going for a final   
   > cash in?   
   The latter. Triplanetary is pretty much irrelevant to the rest of the    
   series. You could pull in all that matters from Triplanetary and    
   include it in a _First Lensman_ film. I'd skip all the "Grey Roger"    
   stuff and the Nevians, which is most of Triplanetary, other than the    
   "historical" overview.   
   When I think "Lensman" I think Kimball Kinnison. That means _Galactic    
   Patrol_ through _Children of the Lens_.   
   Triplanetary as it is published consists of several short sections    
   giving a "historical overview" of an alien breeding program on Earth    
   through ancient ages of history, leading up to a rather fun but    
   irrelevant short story about a munitions plant supervisor during WWII.    
   Then there's a short section about a hypothetical 20th century WWIII,    
   followed by the main part of Triplanetary.   
   The main part had originally been published in the 1930s as a    
   non-Lensman novel, though it's a short novel by today's standards. It's    
   a lot of fluff with a love story among humans kidnapped by aliens and    
   some relatively unbelievable superscience double-talk. I've never read    
   the original story, so I don't know how much alteration Smith did to    
   shoehorn it into the Lensman series other than adding the initial    
   material.   
   But it's not a very good story, it doesn't really add anything to even    
   _First Lensman_, and it certainly doesn't have anything to do with the    
   main four novels.   
   -K   
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