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In the not too distance future, while fleets of commercial space ships travel between the planets of numerous solar systems, a traveler named Virgil Samms visits the planet Arisia. There he becomes the first wearer of the Lens, the almost-living symbol of the forces of law and order. As the first Lensman, Samms helps to form the Galactic Patrol, a battalion of Lensmen who are larger than life heroes. These solders are the best of the best, with incredible...
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Galactic Patrol introduces Kimball Kinnison, who will be the hero of the next four books - Galactic Patrol, Gray Lensman, Second Stage Lensmen and (to a lesser extent) Children of the Lens. Kinnison and Clarissa MacDougall are the penultimates of the human breeding program the Arisians set up many eons earlier. The book deals with the earliest stages of Kinnison's career, starting with his graduation as a Lensman from the Patrol's academy. Organized...
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A churning nuclear fireball, appearing out of nowhere, bringing utter destruction--and countless numbers of them were menacing planets throughout the Galaxy! "Storm" Cloud, nucleonic genius, set out in his spaceship Vortex Blaster to track and destroy the mysterious vortices--and embarked on a saga of adventure, discovery and conflict among the far stars that could have been told only by the incomparable "Doc" Smith. (Goodreads)
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Second Stage Lensmen continues the epic saga of the Lensman series. In this installment, the story follows the protagonist, Kimball Kinnison, who has achieved the status of a Second Stage Lensman, possessing immense power and responsibility in the Galactic Patrol. Kinnison, as a Second Stage Lensman, is granted extraordinary abilities, including advanced telepathic and telekinetic powers. These capabilities are essential in the ongoing battle against...
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A NARROW football of steel, the Interplanetary Vessel Arcturus stood upright in her berth in the dock like an egg in its cup. A hundred feet across and a hundred and seventy feet deep was that gigantic bowl, its walls supported by the structural steel and concrete of the dock and lined with hard-packed bumper-layers of hemp and fiber. High into the air extended the upper half of the ship of space - a sullen gray expanse of fifty-inch hardened steel...
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The Arisians have played a long-term strategic game to defeat the Eddorians, a malevolent race seeking domination and destruction. Now, Kinnison and MacDougall, along with their children, are the "Children of the Lens" and the key to the ultimate battle against the Eddorians. The lens, a device of immense power and intelligence, enhances the abilities of its wielders, allowing them to face formidable challenges and adversaries. The story unfolds as...
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THE ORIGINAL SPACE OPERA
In a fortuitous laboratory accident, crack scientist Richard Seaton has unlocked the secret of atomic energy. Now, partnered with his wealthy engineering-genius friend Martin Crane, he's preparing to give the world the gift of limitless, virtually free energy - and of space travel.
But, others want Seaton's secret for themselves. Backed by an evil industrial trust, the sinister and unscrupulous "Blackie" DuQuesne has a plan...
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A classic pulp Science Fiction saga by the famous E.E.'Doc' Smith of the Lensmen series. This is the second in his "The Vortex Blaster" trilogy. (The Vortex Blaster, Storm Cloud on Decca and The Vortex Blaster Makes War) The Galactic Civilization is established, lensmen are on every world. But those horrible Atomic Vorteces still rage on many worlds. The only man who can extinguish them, the human computer 'Storm' Cloud, is naturally embroiled in...
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The best of science fantasy meets the best of science fiction as Tedric battles his way through two universes of adventure: In one universe...Tedric the Ironmaster wields the mightiest sword his world has ever seen - and swears to break the power of the evil god Sarpedion, or die in the attempt. This is the second in a series and takes place when Tedric, now a Lord, begins learning how to plan and observe instead of just rushing in to kill. In another...
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The hero of the book is Neal "Storm" Cloud. Although the story happens in the "Lensman" universe he is not a Lensman, having failed his Lensman's exam. Instead he is a nuclear engineer with an amazing mathematical mind. He is a high level genius and a lightning calculator. In his universe there is something we have apparently don't have in ours, self-sustaining vortices of atomic energy. These are like a small piece of the heart of a star. A churning...
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The Skylark of Space is one of the earliest novels of interstellar travel and is considered a classic of pulp science fiction. Originally serialized in 1928 in the magazine Amazing Stories it is often categorized as the first literary space opera, complete with protagonists perfect in mind, body, and spirit, who fight against villains of absolute evil. A fun, swoop through millions of light years and tons of adversaries.
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The Skylark of Valeron is the third volume in the classic Skylark trilogy by E.E. 'Doc' Smith. DuQuesne (the evil genius) has survived to become Master of the Earth, ruling with an iron hand because the heroes, the Seatons and the Cranes must run for their lives into the fourth dimension from pure intellectual beings who can dematerialize them on a whim - from which dimension none have ever returned. If you have ever wondered what it like to exist...
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This is a wonderful combination of far future science fiction with Conan like sword and sorcery; lots of blood, gore, honor and evil. The immensely powerful hero, Tedric, is a man's man who refuses to accept the cruel human sacrifices demanded by the 'god' Sarpedion and is set on destroying him. To do this he needs some secrets of metallurgy that future social scientists are willing to give him. He manages to overcome all obstacles until of course...
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This book is the first book of the Lensmen series and contains the prequel. After the Lensmen books became very popular, "Doc" Smith took a magazine series he had written14 years before and turned it into this exciting novel as a prequel explaining how the lensman came about. And exciting it is! He added six new chapters that explain the eons-long eugenics project of the super-intelligences of the Arisia. This alien race is breeding two genetic lines...
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This is the third and final volume in The Vortex Blaster series featuring "Storm" Cloud, computing genius who blows out those nasty Atomic Vortices that can eventually eat up an entire world if left undestroyed. Doc Smith's hero has already saved the world from many atomic vortices with his prodigious computing mind, but here is thrust into taking on more hero like behavior by saving a newly discovered civilization from attack by evil forces. What...
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This is a classic science fiction novel by Edward Elmer Smith ("Doc Smith"). 'They were four of the greatest minds in the Universe: Two men, two women, lost in an experimental spaceship billions of parsecs from home. And as they mentally charted the Cosmos to find their way back to earth, their own loves and hates were as startling as the worlds they encountered.' This work is part of our Vintage Sci-Fi Classics Series, a series in which we are republishing...
20) Triplanetary
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The first installment in the groundbreaking Lensman series, one of the greatest space opera sagas of all time. Nevia, located many light years from the Earth's sun, is running out of iron, the primary source of energy for the planet's dominant amphibious race. Armed with technology that can extract iron atoms from anything it encounters - rock, machinery, man-made structures, even human blood - the Nevians set their sights on a rich lode of the precious...