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"The Lensmen saga is ą588ł mono/SfiTróm the dawn of science fiction. It's all here—a sec ret destiny for Mankind that prefigures David Brin's Uphft series; a umverse-spannmg saga that dwarfs the worlds of Star Trek, Baby fon 5, and Star Wars..."

—Stephen Baxter

Finalist for Speciai 1966 Hugo for AH-Time Best Series

Foreword by John Clute, co-editor,

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

Second Stage Lensman is the fifth of the six classic "Lensman'' books, long recognized as the greatest space opera ever written. This edition is a facsimile of the 1953 Fantasy Press edition, hard to find and expensive when found.

"The fifth of the 'Lensman' stories. Again Kim Kinnison and the Galactic Patrol take up battle with Boskonia. The warfare leads to some odd corners of the universe and some stranger worlds. There is the planet Lyrane where a matriarchal society exists; the frigid world of Onlo, with its incredibly alien inhabitants. on which the utterly weird and unhuman Lensman, Nadreck of Palain Seven works so efficiently. Typical E. E. Smith action, in-trigue, and imagination." (From the 1954 Fantasy Press edition of Children of the Lens.)

OLD EARTH BOOKS

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND S15.00

ISBN 1-882968-13-1

iii mii min min 51500 781882“968138

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