Triplanetary

As I understand it, early science fiction tended to be heavily plot driven and very light on the characterizations. Triplanetary seems to take that a bit further and is heavy on action scenes, technophilia, and ultimate descriptors. The characters are overblown to the point of being amusing but the ideas in here... very very nifty.

I primarily chose to read this because I think that “Doc” Smith is one of the classic early sf writers, and I'll continue to read the series for that reason alone. If I were to find out that Triplanetary was written yesterday, I wouldn't bother reading further.