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	Triplanetary by E. E. "Doc" Smith
		The secret history of Earth is that an Eddorian agent called Gharlane is behind most of the disasters that have befallen human civilization: the fall of Atlantis; the destruction of Rome; the loss of Western Civilization during an atomic war of the late 20th century.
		Triplanetary's spy-rays, ultra-beams and Rodebush-Cleveland neutralizers are jibberishy precursors of Star Trek's phasers, trilithium crystals and subspace buffer arrays.
		And all this talk of ancient beings waging a secret war and engaging in eugenic control of the younger races is recognizably an inspiration for Babylon 5's Shadow/Vorlon conflict.
	www.scifidimensions.com /Jan05/triplanetary.htm (574 words)

	Energion.com Product Data - Triplanetary
		The third section is titled `Triplanetary', and it had the fast pace which I expected for the series.
		The Triplanetary League fight back against the pirates only to be interrupted when a spaceship of unknown origin arrives on the scene and changes everything.
		For example, the rate at which technology is turned around by the Triplanetary League as well as their foes is simply absurd.
	energion.com /books/ene_item.php?asin=0425090558 (1181 words)

	Re-Review-Triplanetary: A Tale of Cosmic Adventure
		Triplanetary: A Tale of Cosmic Adventure was a book released by Fantasy Press in 1948 from a series of short stories published in Amazing Stories from January to April of 1934, with filler material to tie it together for the final book form.
		Triplanetary is staged into three parts, the first taking us back millions of years to a time when two galaxies came together and formed what is now the Milky Way galaxy.
		With Triplanetary we have a book that inspired others to follow with their own space sagas, but sadly the book tends to drag and in spots it is hard to follow.
	www.usfamily.net /web/sigrud/triplanetary.html (1132 words)

	The Return of Triplanetary
		Triplanetary, released by GDW in 1973, was the first science fiction game I ever played.
		Triplanetary went out of print, and was reissued in 1981.
		And they should also be able to set up a Triplanetary board to play out an in-system combat in a GURPS Space game.
	www.sjgames.com /gurps/Roleplayer/Roleplayer19/Triplanetary.html (901 words)

	Triplanetary
		To determine the spacecraft's future position next turn (hex C) examine the last vector (in this case, from hex A to hex B), start at the spacecraft's current position (hex B) and move in the same way as the last vector (three hexes to the right).
		Triplanetary spacecraft can generally only burn one unit of fuel per turn.
		But in the Triplanetary system orbits occur as a natural consequence of the existing rules.
	www.projectrho.com /game/triplanetary.html (597 words)

	Z9M9Z - A Lensman Website - Gallery - Triplanetary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This appears to be a preliminary mock-up, as there is a retro-styled spaceship visible through the hexagons on the actual book.
		This is the cover from the March 1933 issue of Astounding where "Triplanetary Part 1" was originally slated to appear.
		Due to a change of editorships, the story was not carried, but this piece of art, depicting Conway, Clio and Bradley escaping from the Hyperion in a life boat, was retained.
	www20.brinkster.com /pariahpress/lensman/gallery_t.htm (229 words)

	Triplanetary by E. E. ''Doc'' Smith - Free eBook
		"Triplanetary" was the first of six books in the Lensman series, and provided the background and the setting.
		Their arrival has been detected by an even more ancient race known as the Arisians, who are native to our cosmos.
		To fight Eddore, Arisia grooms humanity to form first the Triplanetary Service, and later the Galactic Patrol, as the instrument by which Civilization will be spread through the galaxy and counter the efforts of Eddore.
	manybooks.net /titles/smithee2078220782.html (329 words)

	Classic Sci-Fi Reviews: Triplanetary
		The Arisians saw right away that the Eddorians were bent on subjugating all life in the universe, and they also knew that they themselves could not ultimately destroy the Eddorian threat.
		Eventually, when a particular species reaches a certain stage of development, the Arisians will step into the limelight to prevent the Eddorians from interfering, giving that species the leeway it needs to grow into the race that will one day destroy the Eddorians.
		"Triplanetary" picks up the tale at this point, detailing the creation of the Triplanetary Service, an organization of men and women who will one day form the great Galactic Patrol.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue62/classic.html (657 words)

	Mastodon City: Lensman 1: Triplanetary
		Because it's apparently regarded as one of the great space operas of all time, a magazine serial collected into book form in the 40s that served as the inspiration for everything from the Green Lantern Corps to Star Wars.
		And sure enough, Triplanetary is goofy fun, but not all that great, most of the way through.
		The basic concept is that the Arrisians (good) and the Eddorians (bad) have been manipulating the entire universe in a secretive galactic struggle for dominance, occassionally collapsing empires like Atlantic and Rome in Ra's Al Ghulian display of sheer evil and/or hope for the future, depending on which race you're listening to.
	www.mastodoncity.com /2005/06/lensman-1-triplanetary.html (441 words)

	Don Harlow reviews The Lensmen
		Centuries after the end of the World Wars, the solar system is (mostly) united under the single Triplanetary (Earth-Mars-Venus) government, and all is well — except for the space pirates.
		Triplanetary introduces us to those who will become the first generation of Lensmen.
		Most of the rest of the story is an introduction to Civilization’s battle against the two branches of crime — piracy and drug-running — which are to be the major problems in the future.
	www.harlows.org /don/reviews/the_lensmen.php (1664 words)

	Triplanetary and First Lensman by E. E. Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Parts of "Triplanetary" originally appeared as short stories in the legendary sci-fi magazine Amazing Stories in 1934, and, together with some new material, they were published as the book "Triplanetary" by Fantasy Press in 1948.
		The Lensman saga was originally only four books long, but Smith retrofitted both "Triplanetary" and "First Lensman" to the series in order to tell the background of his sweeping epic.
		In "Triplanetary," a series of vignettes spanning millions of years explains how the titanic struggle between the good Arisians and the evil Eddorians first came to pass, and about how humanity was chosen (and bred) to assume the awesome power of the lens.
	www.cyberhaven.com /books/sciencefiction/eesmith.html (600 words)

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		The primary thing that Triplanetary offers is a really cool movement system, which was later used (in a different form) in GDW's _Mayday_.
		Overall, Triplanetary has the best rule length to result ratio I have seen in any game.
		And that, I think, is Triplanetary's real value: while it is an enjoyable game in it's own right, it is an excellent base on which to build your own game.
	grognard.com /reviews/triplan.txt (754 words)

	Trout: Woodpulp Web: Big Boots and Blasters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In spite of this, or perhaps because of it, the two first novels in the series, 'Triplanetary' and 'First Lensman', are often preferred to the rest of the series.
		After the historical sequences, 'Triplanetary' concentrates on Costigan's struggles against an inhuman (in both senses of the word) space-pirate, Gray Roger, and the strange amphibious Nevians: the lens (the psycho-energetic transducer that becomes civilisation's principal weapon) does not appear until the second novel, 'First Lensman'.
		This novel glues 'Triplanetary' to the rest of the series with the introduction of the lens and the formation and early struggles of the Galactic Patrol.
	www.troutmag.org /lensman.html (1315 words)

	Triplanetary
		The Triplanetary Fleet closes with the pirate base with terrific losses on both sides.
		As head of the Triplanetary Service, he took a leading part in the brief war with the Nevians, a race of highly intelligent amphibians who used allotropic iron as a source of atomic power.
		Neither of them ever knew that they were being protected; but Gharlane's blocker was in fact an Arisian fusion - the four-ply mentality which was to become known to every Lensman of the Galactic Patrol as Mentor of Arisia.
	www.wheels.org /lens/triplanetary.html (1146 words)

	nhw: December Books 8) Triplanetary
		First, "Triplanetary", while chronologically first, is actually a "fix-up" novel that Doc retconned into the series.
		Nothing wrong with it, in my view -- I actually like it a great deal -- but a purist would start with "Galactic Patrol" and pretend he knew nothing of the backstory, because in the original published version there was NO prologue explaining what was going on.
		Triplanetary is probabaly one of my least favourite Lensman books and my enjoyment of the series is probably helped by the fact that I read the rest first.
	nhw.livejournal.com /548685.html (586 words)

	Amazon.com: Triplanetary: A Tale of Cosmic Adventure (Lensman Series, Book 1): Books: Edward E. Smith,A. J. Donnell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The third section is titled `Triplanetary', and it had the fast pace which I expected for the series.
		The Triplanetary League fight back against the pirates only to be interrupted when a spaceship of unknown origin arrives on the scene and changes everything.
		Triplanetary (which by the way stands for the inner planet confederation of Earth, Venus, and Mars) starts out with the Eddorians disappointment in early Earth's progress as a sufficient slave race (due to subtle interference by the Arisians), and thus is the cause of large disasters in humanities past as a form of punishment.
	www.amazon.com /Triplanetary-Tale-Cosmic-Adventure-Lensman/dp/1882968093 (2764 words)

	Pam's Book Log
		I had a really difficult time distinguishing among the male heroes in the "Triplanetary" section; ultimately I was only able to do so as far as they were in different locations.
		However, that doesn't hold water in a universe where a couple of government scientists can gain, in three days, nigh-complete understanding of an alien technology which goes against all established scientific theory, and adapt it for human use in a matter of weeks.
		There's a minor scene involving Costigan's boss, where he orders some agents to summarily execute some pirates they've captured, because it would be inconvenient to bring them to trial.
	www.physics.ucla.edu /~kor2/booklog/smith-triplanetary.html (1679 words)

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		And when another civilization arises from the ashes, and contacts the inhabitants of Venus and Mars to form the Triplanetary Alliance against the Adepts of North Polar Jupiter, the Arisians are there, guiding and shaping their agents.
		When their redheaded bloodline reaches its zenith in Virgil Samms, a police commander in the newly formed Triplanetary Service, the Arisians reveal themselves, and bequeath to Samms the Lens, a device which focuses thought the way a lens focuses light.
		Turning the page from the World War III section of Triplanetary to the bulk of the novel, which features Conway Costigan's struggle against Gray Roger, is a jarring experience, as though two different authors were at work in the same shared universe.
	www.geocities.com /stevejohnson.geo/lensman.html (1076 words)

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		Also, we were missing Dean, who doesn't like Triplanetary all that much and who does figure prominently in our plans for our next Close Action game.
		A splendid time was had by most, with a Good Sport award going to Wade, who had brought the beer but didn't really want to play Triplanetary.
		The resulting race will look very bizarre, with players gaming the turn sequence and the no-fire zones to "do unto others and split." Guns and mines might still be ok, however, because they're harder to use.
	grognard.com /reviews/triplan1.txt (1079 words)

	Zero, by Triplanetary (CD single, £5.95)
		Check out what we've had to say in the past about Triplanetary in our weekly reviews.
		We were toying with giving this next thing single/ album of of the week but we couldn't work out what it was so we gave up.
		It's a triple CD set by TRIPLANETARY which is some dude who used to be in The Lazily Spun (on Earworm).
	www.normanrecords.com /records/84519 (345 words)

	Triplanetary by E.E. 'Doc' Smith: Science Fiction Inventions and Ideas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Triplanetary by E.E. 'Doc' Smith: Science Fiction Inventions and Ideas
		Triplanetary is the first in E. "Doc" Smith's series of six Lensman books; this novel provides necessary background information for the grand space-opera that follows.
		The patient reader will learn how the good-guy Arisians and the bad-guy Eddorians battled it out over eons.
	www.technovelgy.com /ct/AuthorSpecAlphaList.asp?BkNum=159 (170 words)

	Mailgate: rec.games.pbm: Anyone for Triplanetary? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		For those of you who haven't had the chance to play this simple and elegant game, here is an excerpt of a review written by Christopher A. Weuve (http://www.kentaurus.com/triplan.htm): ------------------------------------------------------------------ The primary thing that Triplanetary offers is a really cool movement system, which was later used (in a different form) in GDW's Mayday.
		The scenarios dealt with solar system races, asteroid mining, piracy, full-scale space war, etc. On the web pages I also found Cyberboard (http://cyberboard.brainiac.com/), a nice piece of software that allows you to play virtually any game by email, without having a board taking up a table in your house all the time.
		The Triplanetary map and units for Cyberboard are very well made (http://grognard.com/info1/triplan.zip).
	mailgate.supereva.it /rec/rec.games.pbm/msg03288.html (448 words)

	Amazon.com: Triplanetary: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Triplanetary (Lensman Saga) by E. "Doc" Smith (Leather Bound - 2004)
		Triplanetary-A Tale of Cosmic Adventure by Edward, Illustrated by Donnell, A,J. Smtih and A,J. Donnell (Hardcover - 1948)
		Triplanetary + First Lensman + Galactic Patrol + Gray Lensman + Second Stage Lensman + Children of the Lens (LENSMAN SAGA, 6 Volume Matched Set) by Edward E. "Doc" Smith (Leather Bound - 2006)
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Triplanetary&tag=webshopmarket-20&index=books&link_code=qs&page=1 (639 words)

	University of Nebraska Press: E.E. 'Doc' Smith's Triplanetary
		Triplanetary is the first of Smith's Lensmen series and is one of the beginnings of the space opera subgenre that would eventually be the precursor to Star Wars—lots of different planets and peoples fighting an intergalactic war for the betterment of all.
		Triplanetary is a good read for the sense of wonder and fun that it invokes.
		Smith was having a great time writing this book and he isn't concerned about bringing depth or subtlety to it.
	nebraskapress.typepad.com /university_of_nebraska_pr/2006/03/ee_doc_smiths_t.html (956 words)

	[Teralogos News] Triplanetary Lines Offers Discount Mars Rates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Triplanetary Lines Offers Discount Mars Rates ISLANDIA, L4/Teralogos Feb 18, 2101 In an expansion of their successful TransMars program, Triplanetary Lines is reassigning two of their newest Meizi-class passenger space vessels - Zubatka and Golden Swan - to the Earth-Mars passenger route.
		The two vessels have been recently refitted with additional passenger accommodations and are expected to reenter service on March 10, 2101.
		"Triplanetary Lines commitment to value and integrity has never diminished and our customers and partners can continue to rely as we move into the 22nd century.
	mail.sjgames.com /pipermail/teralogosnews/2003/000016.html (338 words)

	Amazon.ca: Triplanetary : The Lensman Saga, Book 1: Books: E. E. "Doc" Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Arisians begin a breeding program on every world that can produce intelligent life, the goal to produce super warriors who can repel the Eddorians.
		Triplanetary is the early history of that breeding program on Earth, illustrated with the lives of several warriors and soldiers.
		It ends with the discovery of the interstellar space drive, formation of the Galactic Patrol, and the first Lens-an Arisian device that provides its wearer with mind-reading and telepathic abilities-given to the first Lensman on Earth.
	www.amazon.ca /Triplanetary-Lensman-Saga-Book-1/dp/1416504087 (375 words)

	Triplanetary - Board Games : Science Fiction : Mad Poker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		ChrisW's Triplanetary Page Triplanetary I have yet to see a game that approaches the simple elegance of GDW's Triplanetary.
		The primary thing that Triplanetary offers is a really cool movement system, which was later used (in a different form) in GDW's Mayday.
		Triplanetary This classic game of interplanetary warfare was designed by Marc Miller and originally released by Game Designers Workshop.
	www.madpoker.biz /dir/Board_Games/Science_Fiction/Triplanetary (175 words)

	Mailgate: rec.games.pbm: Anyone for Triplanetary? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		For those of you who haven't had the chance to play this simple and elegant game, here is an excerpt of a review written by Christopher A. Weuve (http://www.kentaurus.com/triplan.htm): ------------------------------------------------------------------ The primary thing that Triplanetary offers is a really cool movement system, which was later used (in a different form) in GDW's Mayday.
		The scenarios dealt with solar system races, asteroid mining, piracy, full-scale space war, etc. On the web pages I also found Cyberboard (http://cyberboard.brainiac.com/), a nice piece of software that allows you to play virtually any game by email, without having a board taking up a table in your house all the time.
		The Triplanetary map and units for Cyberboard are very well made (http://grognard.com/info1/triplan.zip).
	mailgate.dada.net /rec/rec.games.pbm/msg03288.html (448 words)

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