Already aware of it. In case you missed the second paragraph of my post, let me repost it, emphasis added.
hvb wrote:I know, I know,
Ryk is running with this one already, but still, wouldn't it be just grand if the Avalon class successor, aka the Roland class light cruiser companion-to-be, was named the Skylark class?
cralkhi wrote:hvb wrote:Yes well, I am more of DuQuesne man myself.
(Oops, I should have wrote Seaton; betrayed and exposed by my own hand.
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Well, DuQuesne did get a more-or-less happy ending at the end of the series, so I get the feeling "Doc" Smith somewhat liked him too. (Unfortunately the last book - Skylark DuQuesne - was written something like 20 years later [if not more] and isn't as good as the others. Still fine, don't get me wrong, but it doesn't quite have the spirit of the first 3 IMO.)
(There's also a heroic version of DuQuesne in Ryk E. Spoor's Grand Central Arena/Spheres of Influence. You might be interested in that -- those books are awesome.)