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On 25/04/2026 22.55, quadi wrote:

YouTube suggested to me the following video,

The author of that post claimed that its author's name was supposed to be
all lowercase.
This was the first I had heard of that.

I replied that I felt he was getting E. E. "Doc" Smith confused with the famous poet e. e. cummings.

That was my initial reaction when I saw your subject line. However, I've
since recalled that the 1970 Pyramid MMPB editions of the Lensman books had
his name in all lower case. For example: <https://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/6/6e/GLCTCPTRLL1970.jpg> <https://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/0/04/GRLNSMNBJM1970.jpg>

They didn't do this on the covers of the contemporaneous editions of the Skylark books, however.
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