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Against the backdrop of a secret war between two all-powerful alien races, Virgil Samms of the Triplanetary Service is selected by the seemingly omniscient Arisians to be the first bearer of the Lens. Only individuals deemed brave, virtuous, capable, and incorruptible can receive a Lens, which grants its user telepathy and other powers. With it, Samms seeks out other “Lens worthy” humans and aliens, with the goal of creating a Galactic Patrol that will defend planets adhering to Civilization from corruption, vice, and piracy.
First Lensman is the second book in E. E. Smith’s Lensman series but was the last to be written. Unlike the rest of the series, it was never serialized, and was first published in 1950 to help link Triplanetary with Galactic Patrol. Smith’s imaginative and bizarre alien races are on full display, as well as the constantly escalating space warfare that is the hallmark of the space opera genre.
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Fiction, science fiction, general, American Science fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction, science fiction, space opera, Science fiction, Space warfare -- Fiction, Imaginary wars and battles -- Fiction, Human-alien encounters -- Fiction, Space colonies -- Fiction, Outer space -- Exploration -- Fiction, Space security -- Fiction, Psychic ability -- FictionPeople
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First Lensman: The Lensman Saga, Book 2 (Lensman Sagas)
May 2005, I Books
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First Lensman (Classic Lensman, Bk. 2)
March 15, 1997, Ripping Publishing
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First Lensman
1978, Jove Books, Jove
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First Lensman
1973, Pyramid Books
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First Lensman: the second novel in the Lensman series
1972, Panther
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First Lensman: the secondnovel of the Lensman series
1971, W.H. Allen, Ebury Publishing
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Lensman series, Book 2 of 7
In First Lensman, we find the benevolent super-beings of Arisia ready to bestow the first "lens" on a human being (which, among other things, will give humans telepathic powers). The honor goes to Virgil Samms, who will ever after be known as the "First Lensman." But it's a title that he'll have to earn by establishing the Galactic Patrol, a group that is at once powerful and incorruptible, and will protect the universe from the evil and almost-unstoppable Eddorians. If that weren't tough enough, Samms must also dodge assassination attempts at home and help his second-in-command, Rod "The Rock" Kinnison, win the presidency of North America. And that's just the beginning of his troubles.
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