Kimball Kinnison is a Lensman and an officer of the Galactic Patrol, a kind of interstellar police force with almost unlimited powers. The Lens gives its wearer a variety of mental capabilities, including those needed to enforce the law on alien planets, and to bridge the communication gap between different life-forms. It can provide mind-reading and telepathic abilities. Kinnison is sent on a mission to fight the pirates of Boskone, an evil empire of enormous power and unimagined technological capabilities.
Gray Lensman (4th adventure of the series) Somewhere among the galaxies was the stronghold of Boskone, a network of brilliant interplanetary criminals, whose mania for conquest threatened the future of all known civilization... But where? The Boskonian bases dotted the universe, shielded by gigantic thought-screens that defied penetration. The best minds in the Galactic Patrol had tried. Now it was up to Lensman Kim Kinnison, using his fantastic mental powers to infiltrate the Boskonian strongholds and learn the location of the enemy's Grand Base.
No one who has read the famous "Skylark" stories or the other epic space adventures written by Edward E. Smith is ever likely to forget the name of the father of the modern interplanetary story. Twenty-five years ago Dr. Smith set the pattern for other writers to follow--and they're still following! "First Lensman", Smith's latest story, reestablishes his position as leader in his chosen field. His science novels continue to thrill his thousands of readers with their tremendous imaginative scope, their sure grasp of vast interstellar distances, their skillful creation of alien intelligences, their breath-taking adventures.In "First Lensman" you are transported to the day in the not-too-distant future when fleets of commercial space ships travel constantly between the planets of numerous solar systems. With interstellar commerce come interstellar headaches. The forces of law and order lag far behind those of organized crime. Civilization seems to be heading for chaos. A small group of men, headed by Virgil Samms, Chief of the Triplanetary Service, and Councillor "Rocky" Rod Kinnison, face the issue--and bring into the open a secret conflict that has been going on for uncounted ages.Strange and exciting events follow. Strange worlds and stranger peoples enter the picture. In this gripping narrative you will visit Arisia with Virgil Samms when he becomes First Lensman; you will engage in adventures on other delightfully wackly worlds, such as Rigel Four, where people look like animated oil drums, or Palain Seven whose frigid-blooded race has an extension into the fourth dimension. You will see the forming of the Galactic Patrol.Above all, you will be entranced by a story that will lift you out of the present into a world to come; a novel which is part of an epic without parallel in science fiction--the Lensman Series.
Scientists Dick Seaton and Marc DuQuesne were the deadliest enemies in the galaxy. Their feud had blazed among the stars and challenged the history of a thousand planets. But now a threat from outside the galaxy drove them into a desperate alliance as hordes of strange aliens stormed through space on a collision course with Man. Seaton and DuQuesne fought side by side to fend off the invasion - as Seaton kept constant, perilous watch for DuQuesne's inevitable double-cross.
