title: Chronicles of the Lensmen, Volume 1 (Triplanetary, First Lensman, Galactic Patrol )
author: E. E. "Doc" Smith
description: First three books in one - Interplanetary - First Lensman - Galactic Patrol This book collects the first half of the first - and one of the most famous --space epics of all time. With these books "Doc" Smith laid the foundation for all science fiction to come, crediting what David Weber "the great archetypes of the genre".
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  Second Stage Lensmen
  
  
  
  
  
  by E. E. Smith
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright 1953 Edward E. "Doc" Smith, PhD.
  
  
  
  
  
  This edition published by Reading Essentials.
  
  
  
  
  
  All Rights Reserved.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  THE BRAINS BEHIND BOSKONE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Time and again the Galactic Patrol
  
  
  
  
  
  had defeated the brilliant, elusive forces
  
  
  
  
  
  of Boskone. The space pirates’ home
  
  
  
  
  
  base was crushed, its leaders destroyed.
  
  
  
  
  
  Then, mysteriously, powerful Boskonian
  
  
  
  
  
  bases sprang up anew throughout
  
  
  
  
  
  the galaxy, and the elite corps of Lensmen
  
  
  
  
  
  were forced to face the truth:
  
  
  
  
  
  that minds mightier than their own, operating
  
  
  
  
  
  from an unknown planet,
  
  
  
  
  
  were waging a final war for supremacy
  
  
  
  
  
  in space—and were on the way
  
  
  
  
  
  to winning!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  A LENSMAN ADVENTURE
  
  
  
  
  
  Fifth in the Great Series
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Novels of science fiction
  
  
  
  
  
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  Lensman series
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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