Backstage Lensman
"Backstage Lensman" | |
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Author | Randall Garrett |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Series | Lensman |
Genre(s) | Science fiction |
Published in | Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
Publication type | Magazine |
Media type | Print (Paperback) |
Publication date | June 1978 |
"Backstage Lensman" is a short story by Randall Garrett, a parody or pastiche of the Lensman series of E.E. 'Doc' Smith. It was first written in 1949, lost and then rewritten in 1978.
Garrett claimed that "Doc read the first version of 'Backstage Lensman' and laughed all through the convention. It was his suggestion that I call the spaceship Dentless rather than Dauntless."
Publication history[]
This story appeared in:
- The magazine Analog, June 1978
- Takeoff, a collection of short fiction and poems by Randall Garrett, 1980
- Shaggy B.E.M. Stories, an anthology edited by Mike Resnick, 1988
External links[]
- Backstage Lensman title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Categories:
- 1949 short stories
- 1978 short stories
- Science fiction short stories
- Parodies of literature
- Lensman series
- Short stories by Randall Garrett
- Works originally published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact
- 1970s science fiction short story stubs