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A seventh (7) novel would have been THE VORTEX BLASTER, but was not included. 
THE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION #1: TRIPLANETARY
No single phrase can adequately describe "Triplanetary". It might be termed a Galactic Romance, or a Cosmological Fantasy, since it is a work of the imagination with the cosmos as its background. But above all else, it is a story, a story of thinking beings, human, super-human, and alien.
Like two opponents in a tremendous cosmic chess game with galaxies as their chessboard, are the incredibly ancient races of Arisia and Eddore. The game begins two thousand million years ago when two galaxies pass through each other; and during the interpassage countless solar systems are born. Centuries pass. Millenia. Cosmic and geologic ages. Planets cool to solidity and stability. Life forms and grows and develops. And as life evolves it is subjected to, and strongly if subtly affected by, the diametrically opposed forces of essentially Earth-like Arisia and utterly alien Eddore.
Earth and its peoples, among other promising worlds in the First Galaxy, receive the attention of the cosmic chess players. Atlantis, ancient Rome, World Wars I, II and III -- all pass before your fascinated gaze, seen through the eys of men of each succeeding day -- and Civilization moves on into the future era of the Triplanetary League; and the conflict between the Arisians and the Eddorians mounts toward a climax.
This, in bried, is "Triplanetary" -- but no summary can suggest the thrilling incidents which make up this Tale of Cosmic Adventure. From the atomic age in Atlantis, or a bloody Roman arena, you are borne to the watery world of Nevia, remote in space and time. You meet such memorable characters as Gray Roger, an adept of South Polar Jupiter, who is also one of the monstrous Eddorians -- Steve Costigan, agent of the Triplanetary Service -- Virgil Samms, destined to have a momentous influence on the fate of countless worlds -- and others.
"Triplanetary" is required reading for every science fiction enthusiast. It is the beginning of a tremendous epic of space, which has become known to the many thousands of readers of Astounding Science Fiction as the famous "Lensman" series.
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THE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION #2: FIRST LENSMAN
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.
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THE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION #3: GALACTIC PATROL
There are novels and novels of adventures in space--but few, indeed, are the tales of the spaceways with the scope and drive and power of "Galatic Patrol". For many years Dr. Edward E. Smith has been recognized as the master of the space epic; and even today, with the widespread interest in science fiction and with the appearance of talented new writers, there is no one to offer a serious challenge to Smith's leadership in his chosen field.
This is the story of Kimball Kinnison, wearer of the Lens of the Galactic Patrol, in his conflict with the forces of lawlessness and crime known as Boskonia. More, it is the story of the Lens, a pseudoliving, telepathic jewel matched to the ego of its wearer by those master philosophers, the Arisians. The story of Helmuth, "who speaks for Boskone", of the Wheelmen of Aldebaran I, of the Overlords of Delgon, of the strange worlds of Velantia, Trenco, Boyssia II, and others. The story of men and women of the future, waging a galactic warfare for the very existence of civilization.
Kinnison, graduating at the head of his class at the Tellurian Academy of the Galactic Patrol, is given command of an experimental space ship with instructions to find and capture a new-type ship of the Boskonians. With a hand-picked crew he sets out--and meets the enemy superdreadnaught he is seeking. From that point to the very end "Galactic Patrol" maintains a swift, thrilling, never-lagging pace that is certain to hold your interest.
"Galactic Patrol" is the third novel in the Lensman series, preceded by "Triplanetary" and "First Lensman". Yet this book is complete in itself. Indeed, it was the first of the series, as such, to appear serially; and failure to have read the other two books should be no obstacle to your reading this one.
If you enjoy science fiction--stories of other worlds--science novels of interplanetary adventure--then "Galactic Patrol" is required reading for you.
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THE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION #4: GREY LENSMAN
The coming of age of science fiction, with its growing popularity and its recognition as an important form of literary creation has brought the space adventures of E. E. Smith to an ever-expanding audience. Of all of his works, Smith's "Lensman" stories are his greatest contribution to science fiction--and by many of his legion of enthusiastic followers. "Grey Lensman", fourth in the series is considered his best.
This volume recounts the further adventures of Kimball Kinnison, wearer of the Lens of the Galactic Patrol, in his and the Patrol's conflict with the forces of Boskonia. Kinnison has attained the goal which every Lensman seeks and so few attain, that of "Unattached" Lensman--accountable to no one anywhere, completely independent, completely free. Further, he is learning how to make full use of his lens. Ever more complex grow the problems so Kinnison works his way up through the ranks of the enemies of Civilization toward the top.
In "Grey Lensman", Dr. Smith has produced some of his most memorable characters: Wild Bill Williams, the space rat meteor miner; Austin Cardynge, a lean gray tomcat of a man, and others; and has engaged them in gripping adventures. These adventures have been written with such consummate skill that even the most incredible experience becomes believable.
Although events such as are portrayed in "Grey Lensman" lie far in the future--if they ever actually materialize--they are nonetheless fascinating to read about, opening to the readers' imagination new vistas of creation, new and vaster concepts which permit escape from our surroundings in a manner no other kind of fiction can equal. In "Grey Lensman" you will be transported into the limitless reaches of interstellar space--you'll have a round-trip ticket, with all of the enjoyment and none of the dangers. A book you'll reread again and again.
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THE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION #5: SECOND STAGE LENSMEN
Do you read science fiction because you want to absorb a painless scientific education? Then don't read "Second Stage Lensmen!" . . . Are you seeking to study the workings of abnormal human minds under the stimuli of abnormal conditions--of psycopaths with their hair down? Then pass up this book! . . . Are you looking for a new literature, scholarly in its presentation, written for posterity, a work with a message and a mission? You probably won't consider "Second Stage Lensmen" your kind of reading fare.
This book has been written for those who enjoy a swiftly paced adventure yarn of the spaceways, a story with plenty of action, and with a protagonist who is the kind of man you'd like to be. There's science here, good, sound science, but Dr. Smith never permits it to slow up the story. There are people, both normal and abnormal--but what they say and do is an integral part of the narrative. A mission? Of course--the mission that most good science fiction possesses--a widening of your mental horizon, a message of hope for tomorrow, the awakeing of a cosmic consciousness, and a way of escape from our present tense and overwrought world.
Above all, "Second Stage Lensmen" is written to entertain, to provide a few hours of enjoyable relaxation, to give you a guided tour through stranger adventures and stranger and more thrilling worlds than you've ever imagined.
"Second Stage Lensmen", the fifth long epic in Dr. Smith's ever popular and justly famous "Lensman" series, continues the exploits of the Galactic Patrol in its conflict with Boskonia. Kimball Kinnison takes up the battle where he momentarily left it in "Gray Lensman". Again he is ably assisted by the highly civilized--though often alien-life forms from other worlds, all of them Wearers of the Lens of Civilization.
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THE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION #6: CHILDREN OF THE LENS
To every reader of science fiction who enjoys so-called "space operas", the name Edward E. Smith is synonymous with the best in the field. He has been called--and with justification--the master of the space adventure novel. Of all of his work, his "Lensman" series has gained the greatest acclaim--and of the six "Lensman" novels, "Children of the Lens", the last in the series, is his crowning achievement.
Twenty years have passed since the events portrayed in "Second Stage Lensmen". To Kimball Kinnison and his wife Clarrissa have been born five children--Kit, the eldest, and two sets of twin sisters. These are the "Children of the Lens"--the offspring of uncounted generations of selected matings--the most capable, the most brilliant minds in the universe. Their job is the conclusion of the Boskonian war, and how they accomplish this end and gain ultimate victory makes up the greater part of the book.
Again we meet old friends introduced in earlier volumes in the series--Worsel the Valentian, Nadreck of Palain VII, Tregonsee the Rigellian, Mentor of Arisia and other equally interesting and alien personalities. Again we participate in voyages into space and hyper-space, in battles between superdreadnoughts of the void. Again we enjoy all of the varied facets of science fiction wirting which make a Smith book so popular with so very many readers.
If you have not read the earlier "Lensman" stories, you may still enjoy the present volume, since in his "Message of Transmittal" which begins "Children of the Lens", Dr. Smith has written a detailed summary of the preceding books.
If you have read earlier Smith books, none of the foregoing comments are necessary. If this is your first contact with his work, you have a unique and thrilling experience before you.
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THE VORTEX BLASTER
Of the myriads of atomic power plants furnishing energy to run Civilization's galaxy-wide array of planets, all except a minute fraction of one percent were perfect servants; their vortices were small, tame, self-limiting, and self-adjusting. But at very long intervals some unpredictable one of these vortices would flare nova-like into a huge, wild, self-sustaining monster, destroying everything in its neighborhood and settling down into a crater of its own making. These "loose" atomic vortices never went out.
Only one man in all of Civilization could cope with this menace--Neal Cloud, Doctor of Nucleonics, who became known as the Vortex Blaster. This book is his narrative--the record of one man and his conflict with what appears to be a natural force gone mad. When Cloud discovers what is really behind the vortices--but that is the story.
The Vortex Blaster is just what the thousands of Smith fans expect of their favorite author--an exciting tale of other worlds with their strange environments and stranger inhabitants. In short, this is space opera at its gripingly entertaining best.
Lensmen appear in the story, since the "Lensman" universe forms its background, but this is not, strictly speaking, part of the Lensman series. It's an independent science novel, written to entertain.
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LENSMAN #2: FIRST LENSMAN
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.
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SKYLARK #1: THE SKYLARK OF SPACE
Perhaps it is a bit unethical and unusual for editors to voice their opinion of their own wares, but when such a story as "The Skylark of Space" comes along, we just feel as if we must shout from the housetops that this is the greatest interplanetarian and space flying story that has appeared this year. Indeed, it probably will rank as one of the great space flying stories for many years to come. The story is chock full, not only of excellent science, but woven through it there is also that very rare element, love and romance. This element in an interplanetarian story is often apt to be foolish, but it does not seem so in this particular story.
We know so little about intra-atomic forces, that this story, improbable as it will appear in spots, will read commonplace years hence, when we have atomic engines, and when we have solved the riddle of the atom.
You will follow the hair-raising explorations and strange ventures into far-away worlds with bated breath, and you will be fascinated, as we were, with the strangeness of it all.
The original space opera, with the original magazine text and illustrations, in a brand new book.
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SKYLARK #2: SKYLARK THREE
Among science fiction enthusiasts, among general readers who enjoy a narrative that stirs the imagination, Dr. Edward E. Smnith is gaining an ever-widening circle of followers. He has become the author of interplanetary fiction. Three books have preceded "Skylark Three" -- "The Skylark of Space", "Space-hounds of IPC", and "Triplanetary" -- and each has been received with greater enthusiasm than its predecessor.
"Skylark Three", though a complete story in itself, continues the adventures of Richard Seaton, Marc DuQuesne, Dunark of Kondal and others introduced in "The Skylark of Space". Strange beings on strange worlds are created by the tacile pen and fertile imagination of Dr. Smith. Scientific wonders and adventures merge in a tale that is certain to hold the reader's interest from the very first page.
Basically, "Skylark Three" is the story of Dr. Richard Seaton's quest for knowledge with which to combat the vastly superior science of the Fenachrone, a semi-human race of beings from a distant solar system, who threaten the very existence of countless civilized worlds. Somewhere, Seaton believes, must live a cure whose knowledge is greater than that of the invaders.
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SPACEHOUNDS OF IPC
A good many of us, who are now certain beyond a doubt that space travel will forever remain in the realm of the impossible, probably would, if a rocket that were shot to the moon, for instance, did arrive, and perhaps return to give proof of its safe arrival on our satellite, accept the phenomenon in a perfectly blase, twentieth century manner. Dr. Smith, that phenomenal writer of classic scientific fiction, seems to have become so thoroughly convinced of the advent of interplanetary travel that it is difficult for the reader to feel, after finishing "Spacehounds of IPC," that travel in the great spaces is not already an established fact. Dr. Smith, as a professional chemist, is kept fairly busy. As a writer, he is satisfied with nothing less than perfection. For that reason, a masterpiece from his pen has become almost an annual event. We know you will like "Spacehounds" even better than the "Skylark" series.
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TRIPLANETARY
This is the original magazine version of TRIPLANETARY which was later revised and added to in order to include it in the Lensman series.
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THE GALAXY PRIMES
Two men and two women, Clee Garlock, James James, Lola Montandon, and Belle Bellamy--the greatest brains of the planet Earth--set forth on mankind's strangest adventure: to see if intergalactic spaceships can be navigated and powered by the force of the human mind. A great interplanetary adventure by the master of outer space adventure.
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COSMOS
A seventeen chapter round-robin serial written by eighteen science fiction authors: Ralph Milne Farley, David H. Keller, M.D., Arthur J. Burks, Bob Olsen, Francis Flagg, John W. Campbell, Rae Winters (Raymond A. Palmer), Otis Adelbert Kline, E. Hoffman Price, Abner J. Gelula, Raymond A. Palmer, A. Merritt, J. Harvey Haggard, Edward E. Smith, Ph.D., P. Schuyler Miller, L. A. Eshbach, Eando Binder, Edmond Hamilton.
An evil hitlerish dictator of one of the planets of Alpha Centauri, unsatisfied with ruling one planet, must spread out and subjugate others. He knows none to conquer in his own system-they are all either uninhabitable or invin-cible. So he casts his evil eyes on the solar system. This dog's name incidentally is Ay-Artz.
There exist saviors on Lemnis, Ay-Artz's home planet. They are Dos-Tev, rightful heir to the throne of Lemnis who was bounced out by the rebel-lious Ay-Artz, his scientist friend and mentor Mea-Quin, and their servant-warrior-errand-boy Bullo. Hearing of Ay-Artz's evil designs they determine to warn to solarites and help defeat Ay-Artz once and for all. Their struggle to inform the various solar plan-ets' peoples of Ay-Artz's de-signs, the struggles of the people of Sol to defeat Ay-Artz and to defend their planets against him, forms the general run of the "novel's" progress. Eventually, of course, Ay-Artz is defeated-in the final in-stallment, written by old universe-wrecker Edmond Hamil-ton.
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