To someone not familiar with E. E. “Doc” Smith’s work, the newest reprinting of the Lensman series might be slightly confusing. Triplanetary, the first book, has a little blurb in it about the next volume, “due out in July 2005,” as if it were being penned at this very moment. (Of course, the copyright date is something like 1934).
I really wonder what he’d be writing about today.