First Lensman
First Lensman is the second book of E. E. Smith’s grand Lensman saga, published in 1950. As civilisation across many worlds struggles against crime, corruption, and the hidden hand of a galactic conspiracy, the far-seeing Arisians at last bestow the Lens, a mind-linked badge of absolute integrity, on the men fit to wield it. Virgil Samms becomes the first Lensman and sets out to forge the Galactic Patrol, an incorruptible force that can stand against the growing menace. Full of interstellar action and boundless invention, the book builds the heroic framework that carries through the rest of this founding space-opera series. This free PDF and EPUB offers the complete novel.
About the Author
E. E. Smith (1890 to 1965), often called the father of space opera, was an American food chemist and science fiction writer. His Skylark and Lensman series set the pattern for the grand galactic adventure that dominated early science fiction.
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