>On another note, the Lensmen novels are interesting, but IMHO a bit
>hard to read. Now, considering when they were written it doesn't
>totally surprise me.

Yeah, 'Doc' Smith's stuff is a favorite of mine. Basically he wrote pulp space adventures with lots of two-fisted, square jawed scientists and engineers who just happen to be crackshots and proficient in a couple of dozen martial arts.
Totally unlike anyone in Undocumented Features?

And the Galactic Patrol's personnel policy always gives me a laugh, and it matches so many anime shows in simplicity.

"You know that problem we had?"
"Yes."
"You sent us your best man to deal wth it."
"With you."
"He's dead."
"Ah."
"What do we do now?"
"We'll just grab the top graduate fresh out of training and with minimal experience, and send him over, shall we?"
"That'll do nicely then."

Not to mention any shows in particular, that reasoning does sound fairly familair for some reason.

drakensisthered

So I simply said one of the great trite truths: "There is generally more than one side to a story." - Corwin, Roger Zelazny's 'Courts of Chaos'