- Smith, Edward E. First Lensman. Baltimore: Old
Earth Books, [1950] 1997. ISBN 1-882968-10-7.
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There's no better way to escape for a brief respite from
the world of
session persistence, subnet
masks, stateful fallover, gratuitous ARP packets, and the like
than some
coruscating, actinic
space opera, and nobody does it better than the guy
who invented it, Doc Smith. About every decade I re-read the
Lensman
series, of which this is the second of six volumes
(seven if you count
Masters of the Vortex) and
never cease to be amazed at Smith's talent for thinking big—really big.
I began this fourth expedition through the Lensman saga with the first installment,
Triplanetary,
in June 2004. Old Earth
Books are to be commended for this reprint, which is a
facsimile of the original 1950 Fantasy Press edition including
all the illustrations.
February 2005 