Lensman Series - Galactic Patrol, Inertialess Drive, Gharlane of Eddore, Backstage Lensman, Bergenholm Space Drive, Klovia, Children of the Lens (Paperback)

Chapters: Galactic Patrol, Inertialess Drive, Gharlane of Eddore, Backstage Lensman, Bergenholm Space Drive, Klovia, Children of the Lens, Innermost Circle of the All-Highest, Port Admiral, Mentor of Arisia, Boskone. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 51. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Lensman series is a serial science fiction space opera by Edward Elmer "Doc" Smith. It was a runner-up for the Hugo award for best All-Time Series. The winner was the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov . The series was published in magazines, before being collated and reworked into the better-known series of books. The complete series in internal sequence and their original publication dates are: Originally, the series consisted of the final four novels published between 1937 and 1948 in the magazine Astounding Stories. However, in 1948, at the suggestion of Lloyd Arthur Eshbach (publisher of the original editions of the Lensman books as part of the Fantasy Press imprint), Smith rewrote his 1934 story Triplanetary, originally published in Amazing Stories, to fit in with the Lensman series. First Lensman was written in 1950 to act as a link between Triplanetary and Galactic Patrol and finally, in the years up to 1954, Smith revised the rest of the series to remove inconsistencies between the original Lensman chronology and Triplanetary. The series opens in Triplanetary, two billion years before the present time. The universe has few life-forms, except for the elder race of our galaxy, the Arisians and few planets besides their native world. The Arisians, a peaceful race native to this universe, are already ancient at this time and have forgone physical needs in preference for contemplative mental power which they have developed and refined to an exceedingly high degree. The underlying assumption (b...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=21988