#ee doc smith

[khayjayart]

Art and Storytime!!

Welcome to my new Youtube series, "Art and Storytime", where I play some of my favorite audiobooks while drawing. I like to listen to audiobooks and YT videos while drawing and there's already plenty of art channels that do commentary + drawing, so I decided I would do something where I play audiobooks over recordings of me drawing.

The audiobook I will be using for the first part of this series is "Spacehounds of IPC" by EE Doc Smith and narrated by Mark Nelson. This science fiction novel is in the public domain in the US, so I don't have to worry about copyright strikes (hopefully lol). The video for the first chapter of "Spacehounds" is already up on my Youtube channel. Please like and subscribe so I can keep making stuff like this.

[grayrazor]

This isn't a videogame thing. It's not even a TTRPG thing. These are standard speculative fiction rules that were set in the 1930s and people have just followed them without question ever since.

i'm guessing at some point someone in charge must've been like "if there's swords in the game then the currency is gold. if there's spaceships the currency is credits. if you do otherwise i will kill you"

[fabiansociety]

“…near them there crouched or huddled or lay at ease a many-tentacled creature indescribable to man. It was not exactly like an octopus. Though spiny, it did not resemble at all closely a sea-cucumber. Nor, although it was scaly and toothy and wingy, was it, save in the vaguest possible way, similar to a lizard, a sea serpent, or a vulture. Such a description by negatives is, of course, pitifully inadequate; but, unfortunately, it is the best that can be done.”

you ever wonder what lovecraft would sound like if he was normal about the sea

[grayrazor]

Non-Star Trek books that are kind of Star Trek-like (quality not guaranteed)

Spaceship finds a weird object/alien civilization:

Rendezvous With Rama

The Mote in God’s Eye

The Invincible

Blindsight

Utopian interplanetary society:

3001: The Final Odyssey

The Culture Series

The Hainish Cycle

Contact

Napoleonic Navy in Space:

Lensman

Legend of the Galactic Heroes

Honor Harrington

John Grimes

[thedurvin]

Me: I wanna write this fic but I’m worried the worldbuilding is too weird or silly

EE “Doc” Smith, inventor of space opera, military sci fi, and space cops, inspiring everything from Star Trek to Green Lantern: interstellar travel is possible through psychic powers made possible by equations developed by a guy named Gunther, so using them is called Gunthering and the energy used for any given application is measured in Gunts

Me: okay I feel a bit—

Smith: Clee Garlock is a perfect specimen of masculinity and it only takes him a few gunts to mentally summon nukes to kill flying tigers, so all the aliens (who are mostly sexy girls) want to breed with him and their beta cuck husbands support it because like all logical societies they support eugenics

Me: okay Mr Smith you can go home now

Smith: Clee’s friend Brownie is called that because of her brown skin

Me: for fucks sake

[dustedmagazine]

Bryon Hayes’ 2022: Bleak, Uncertain, Beautiful…

Ayal Senior

It’s been a tumultuous year. Need I say more? 

The best part of the year for me was the return of live music. With mask on, I ventured out to see a handful of shows, beginning with Phil Elverum’s live rendition of The Microphones in 2020. I was frightened the entire time, as the unmasked throng of concert-goers around me seemed not to care about the on-going pandemic, but I emerged unscathed and with a smile on my face (hidden by my mask). Little did I know that I’d catch COVID a month later following the abolishment of the mask mandate in Ontario’s schools. I’m thankful that, unlike countless others, I survived the ordeal without any long-term health effects.

Another thing that brought me joy this year was the series of collective deep dives executed by the Dusted staff under the Listening Post banner. For me, these exercises in conversational scrutiny led to the rediscovery of artists I enjoy (The Clean, Wire, Tall Dwarfs, Broadcast) and the discovery of those I hadn’t yet investigated (Les Rallizes Dénudés, Masayuki Takayanagi, Wadada Leo Smith). It’s always pleasurable to witness my well-educated peers eloquently discuss the music that they love, and it’s a plus when I’m able to engage in the process with a comment or two of my own. 

If I had to call out a single artist that I feel had a particularly fruitful year in 2022, I’d have to pick Oren Ambarchi. Starting with the 10-year anniversary reissue of his Saggitarian Domain piece, and culminating with Shebang, Ambarchi seemed to be everywhere this year. He, Keiji Haino and Jim O’Rourke released what must be their most eclectic trio record to date, which is also their eleventh thus far. Ghosted, in which he joined up with Fire! Trio’s Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin might just be my favorite of the bunch. And of course, we mustn’t forget Ambarchi’s Black Truffle label, which put out a number of essential releases this year. 

Last year, I listed a bunch of Canadian records that filled my bucket, but for 2022 I want to focus on one LP that I kept turning to in the latter half of the year: Ayal Senior’s Az Yashir. Senior assembled the record from tunes he worked up with Matthew “Doc” Dunn, and these acoustic 12-string meditations really enswathed my soul with their warmth. Additional embellishments include pedal steel, percussion, and a few electronic adornments, all of which come together to plant these songs in the furrowed fields first harvested by lunar raga enthusiasts MV and EE. This is unsurprising considering the pedigree of all involved.   

And finally, I know that everyone loves a list, so I shall abide. Like last year, this isn’t a “top 10” list exactly, but the following ten records feature some of the music that made this year more than bearable for me: 

Pan*American — The Patience Fader (Kranky)

Winged Wheel — No Island (12XU)

Cate Le Bon — Pompeii (Drag City)

Julia Reidy — World in World (Black Truffle)

Horsegirl — Versions of Modern Performance (Matador)

The Reds, Pinks, and Purples — Summer at Land's End (Slumberland)

Ayal Senior — Az Yashir (Medusa Editions)

Ambarchi/Berthling/Werliin — Ghosted (Drag City)

Pulse Emitter — Dusk (Hausu Mountain)

Family Ravine — Away and Instinct (Round Bale)

Bryon Hayes

[jurph]

It is 2002. George W. Bush is President. America has been attacked and I am wearing my camouflage uniform every day because my boss tells me I am "at war". I am a couple years out of college, I outrank >80% of the Air Force, and I have a desk job.

Today my job is to go to Sick Call, and then drive across base to the hospital and go into the dental clinic. On the third floor I take a seat. Within 40 seconds of the clock ticking over to my designated appointment - it's one of those old elementary-school-style clocks that CLUNKs on the minutes as the hands move - a sergeant calls my name. Well. He calls my rank and last name. He is a sergeant, and I am an officer; to him I am "sir", nobility, to be handled with kid gloves.

I sit in the chair as he injects the novocaine into my gums, asks what being a new officer is like, first tour? Do I like getting saluted at, sir? Do I miss my family back home? He does, but he can get over to where they live some weekends, can I get out to where my family live, sir? He says the Doc will be in shortly.

The Doc is a colonel, a God On Earth, he must have 20+ years and despite being "just a dentist" the inexorable logic of military seniority dictates that he has the same rank as my boss, who commands several thousand individuals. Most of us have desk jobs, but he is still the Commander, a colonel. My dentist, a God On Earth, a colonel, brusquely strides into the room. He says my last name like it's a greeting, doing this I suppose for every patient - "Smith! McDonald! Gilligan!" He just shouts it; presumably if he had the wrong name someone would say "no?" but I say "yeff fur?" and he says "alright, Sarge has you nice and numb. Hold still for me please."

"Hey, open up real wide for me, okay, we've got four wisdom teeth to remove today. Good job. Hold still."

I open wide. I can hear the Backstreet Boys singing: Tell me why-ee? I hear -- FEEL -- four loud crunches in short succession. After each one there's a quiet clink. The Backstreet Boys are still singing the bridge. Tell me why-ee.

The colonel stands up. "Alright, here you go. Four wisdom teeth. Make sure your ride takes you straight home, you need lots of fluids." He hands me a plastic container that looks like a box of dental floss. I am a junior officer. I dutifully accept the plastic container.

"Why wide?" "Your ride. You have a ride, right? You're not okay to drive now." "Oh fur, oh wide. I wove ear." "Damn. Okay, well. You've got to go straight home. No-- actually, listen L.T., you go to Wendy's, get four of the largest Frosties they have. Put them in your freezer. Spoon, not straw, for the next two days. No sucking on straws, it'll pop out your clots. Four jumbo Frosties."

"Eff fur."

Later I will discover the plastic container he handed me has my wisdom teeth in it, all four of them, covered in blood. I am not feeling light-headed yet.

He walks out, the Boys get to the chorus. "I want it thaaat way."

I'm okay to drive after all, it turns out. The Frosty tastes magical.

did anyone ever tell the Backstreet Boys why

[aki-o-mitovski-writer]

a great list of recommendations.

intro - 0:00 Peter F. Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga - 0:42 Lensman series by EE 'Doc' Smith - 1:52 Humanx Commonwealth books by Alan Dean Foster - 3:06 Stephen Baxter’s Xeelee Sequence - 4:20 Zones of Thought by Vernor Vinge - 5:41 The Way series by Greg Bear - 6:47 Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons - 7:51 Ringworld series by Larry Niven - 9:15 The Expanse by James A Cory - 10:14 Dune series by Frank Herbert - 11:24

[kekwcomics]

Spotted in the wild today:

E E "DOC" SMITH

[thehauntedrocket]

Vintage Paperback - Children Of The Lens by E.E. "Doc" Smith

Lensman Series #06

Art by David Mattingly

Berkley Books (1982)

[doolallymagpie]

i’ve got a lot of complaints about ee “doc” smith’s writing, but “laser weapons are AOE” is not one of ‘em

like, you disintegrate somebody and they pretty much turn into a grenade, to the extent that (IIRC) the protagonist had to wear high-end power armor to safely storm an enemy base with a new superpowered zap gun

[khayjayart]

Art + Storytime! Spacehounds of IPC-Chapter 4: Ganymede Life

Chapter 4 of "Spacehounds of IPC" audiobook for the Art +Storytime series is up! Be sure to like and sub for more art videos!

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[tara-of-helium]

[Post Version 2, includes the dedication page]

Masters of the Vortex. E. E. "Doc" Smith, 1960. Cover art uncredited.

Dedicated "To Bob Heinlein With Admiration and Esteem"

[nelc]

Chris Foss' cover for EE Doc Smith's Triplanetary

[rpgcovers]

GURPS: Lensman (second edition) ~ Steve Jackson Games (2001)

Based on the novels by E.E. "Doc" Smith.

[bookburns]

Come on, buddy. You’re already going by E.E. Do you really need the Doc, too?