Galactic Patrol (Introduction)
Smith Woke Up And Chose Cosmic Conquest
Setting The Stage.
Edgar Rice Burroughs serialized A Princess of Mars in 1912 and published the novel in 1917, the success of which launched “Science Fiction” in the form we now frame all discussions to this day.1
This one story created what we now call “Sword & Planet”, “Raygun Romance”, or “Planetary Romance”, and in its wake we had plenty of others writ…
