The Fredösphere

I took this on-line quiz that's supposed to "determine" what sci-fi author you "are." These things are always silly and frequently fail to live up to my already-rock-bottom expectations.  But this one may end up changing my life!  For the better!  Maybe!  My author is E. E. (Doc) Smith (never heard of him) the inventor of the Space Opera (only dimly aware of that).  Now I've got his book First Lensman sitting on my shelf. This is classic sci-fi from the 30s and 40s. I regret now that I wasted so much of my prime sci-fi years on that incontinent zitbrain we call Isaac Asimov, and now I intend to make up for lost time. Space opera is defined as plot-driven stories with strong heros and villians acting in a universe where individuals can still make a diference. I'm feeling good about this. No sniveling, etiolated psychohistorians anywhere in sight. (And if this post's title has you really, really confused, go here.)

UPDATE:  last link was dead; I switched it to a better one.