Title: Triplanetary

Title: Triplanetary Title Record # 1197
Author: Edward E. Smith
Date: 1948-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Lensman
Series Number: 1
Webpages: librivox.org-1, librivox.org-2, Wikipedia-EN
Language: English

Note: Triplanetary (1948) divides the story into "Book One: Dawn", "Book Two: The World War", and "Book Three: Triplanetary". "Dawn" and "The World War" are new material. The Triplanetary section is revised and expanded from Triplanetary (1934). The 1934 version has 57,952 words while the revised/expanded version is 61,979 words. The entire novel, including the "Dawn" and "The World War" sections is 92,566 words. Overall, the new material and changes were to tie Triplanetary into the Lensman universe and is the first of two prequel novels for the series. The second prequel is The First Lensman published in 1950.

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Other Titles

Variant Titles

Translations

Serializations

Year	Title
1948	Triplanetary [as by Edward E. Smith, Ph.D.]
1954	Triplanetary: A Tale of Cosmic Adventure [as by Edward E. Smith, Ph.D.]
1965	Triplanetary [as by E. E. Smith, Ph.D.]
1966	Triplanetary [as by E. E. 'Doc' Smith]

Year	Language	Title
1960^ⓘTranslated by Botho Rainer Doddenhof	German	Die Planetenbasis [as by E. E. Smith]
1969^ⓘTranslated by Thomas Schlück (using the same title). DO NOT MERGE with previous title / translation.	German	Die Planetenbasis
1972^ⓘTranslated by Richard Chomet	French	Triplanétaire^?Triplanetaire [as by E. E. 'Doc' Smith]
1979	Portuguese	Triplanetária [as by E. E. 'Doc' Smith]
1991	Italian	Triplanetario [as by E. E. 'Doc' Smith]
2002^ⓘTranslated by Román Goicoechea Luna	Spanish	Triplanetaria [as by E. E. 'Doc' Smith]
2017^ⓘTranslated by Thomas Schlück. This is the same translation as that published by Heyne under a slightly different title and byline.	German	Die Planeten-Basis [as by E. E. Smith]

Year	Title
2009^ⓘChapter 7: "Pirates of Space"	Triplanetary (Part 1 of 4) [as by E. E. 'Doc' Smith]
2010^ⓘChapter 8: "In Roger's Planetoid"	Triplanetary (Part 2 of 4) [as by E. E. 'Doc' Smith]
2010^ⓘChapter 9: "Fleet Against Planetoid"	Triplanetary (Part 3 of 4) [as by E. E. 'Doc' Smith]
2010^ⓘChapter 10: "Within the Red Veil"	Triplanetary (Part 4 of 4) [as by E. E. 'Doc' Smith]

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Triplanetary	1970-01-00	Edward E. Smith	Pyramid Books	T-2174	$0.75^?$: US dollar	240	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Jack Gaughan
Triplanetary	1970-01-00	Edward E. Smith	Pyramid Books	T-2174	C$0.75^?C$: Canadian dollar	240	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Jack Gaughan
Triplanetary	2005-02-00	Edward E. Smith	ibooks	1-4165-0408-7	$6.99^?$: US dollar	240	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Raul Carvajal
The E. E. 'Doc' Smith Omnibus	2009-04-16	Edward E. Smith	PageTurner Editions / Renaissance E Books		$1.05^?$: US dollar	587	ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	omni	H. W. Wesso
Triplanetary	2010-06-06	Edward E. Smith	Project Gutenberg	32706	$0.00^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
Triplanetary, First in the Lensman Series	2011-10-11	Edward E. Smith	LibriVox		$0.00^?$: US dollar		digital audio download^?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.	novel
Triplanetary	2013-06-01	Edward E. Smith	Spastic Cat Press	978-1-4837-0183-7	$12.99^?$: US dollar	236	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Triplanetary	2014-02-15	Edward E. Smith	Armchair Fiction (Armchair Fiction Science Fiction Classics #C-54)	978-1-61287-190-5	$12.95^?$: US dollar	224	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Jack Gaughan
Triplanetary	2017-02-28	Edward E. Smith	Project Gutenberg Canada	1405	C$0.00^?C$: Canadian dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel

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Reviews

Review by D. R. Smith (1948) in Fantasy Review, August-September 1948
Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1948) in Astounding Science Fiction, October 1948
Review by The Editor (1948) in Startling Stories, November 1948
Review by Sam Moskowitz (1949) in Fantastic Novels Magazine, July 1949
Review by Frederik Pohl (1949) in Super Science Stories, July 1949
Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1951) in Other Worlds Science Stories, December 1951
Review by Joseph H. Crawford, Jr. and James J. Donahue and Donald M. Grant (1953) in '333': A Bibliography of the Science-Fantasy Novel , reprinted in:
'333': A Bibliography of the Science-Fantasy Novel (1953)
Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1966) in Analog Science Fiction -> Science Fact, July 1966
Review [French] by Denis Philippe (1973) in Fiction, #232
Review by Baird Searles (1983) in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, January 1983
Review by Gene DeWeese (1983) in Science Fiction Review, Spring 1983
Review [Swedish] by Tommy Persson (1988) in Månblad Alfa, 2 1988
Review by Don D'Ammassa (1998) in Science Fiction Chronicle, #197 May-June 1998
Review by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton] (1998) in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 1998
Review by Everett F. Bleiler (1998) in Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years (Reviews: pages 266-522, M-Z)
Review by Stephen E. Andrews and Nick Rennison (2006) in 100 Must-Read Science Fiction Novels, (2006) , reprinted in:
100 Must-Read Science Fiction Novels (2007)
100 Must-Read Science Fiction Novels (unknown)