• The Lensman series is a series of science fiction novels by American author E. E. "Doc" Smith. It was a runner-up for the 1966 Hugo Award for Best All-Time...
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  • "Backstage Lensman" is a short story by Randall Garrett, a parody or pastiche of the Lensman series of E.E. 'Doc' Smith. It was first written in 1949,...
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  • pastry mixes) and science-fiction author, best known for the Lensman and Skylark series. He is sometimes called the father of space opera. Edward Elmer...
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  • History series by Robert A. Heinlein, the Lensman series by Edward E. Smith and The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien. The Foundation series was the...
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  • Lensman: Secret of the Lens, known in Japan as Sci-Fi New Century Lensman (SF新世紀 レンズマン, Esuefu Shinseiki Renzuman), is a 1984 Japanese animated film based...
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  • Galactic Patrol Lensman (GALACTIC PATROL レンズマン, GALACTIC PATROL Renzuman) is a Japanese anime television series based on the Lensman novels by E. E. "Doc"...
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  • copies. It is, in terms of internal chronology, the second novel in the Lensman series, but the sixth (or fifth) written by Smith. (Smith had originally written...
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  • 1939. Grey Lensman is the fourth (originally the second) book in the Lensman series and the second to focus on the adventures of Lensman Kimball Kinnison...
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  • William B. Ellern (category Lensman series)
    asked for, and received, permission from E. E. Smith to extend the Lensman series of novels. After that he produced several science-fiction stories, including...
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  • Look up lensman or lensmen in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lensman or the Lensman series is a science fiction book series by Edward Elmer Smith First...
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  • Galactic Patrol (category Lensman series)
    organization in the Lensman science fiction series written by E. E. Smith. It was also the title of the third book in the series. In the Lensman novels, the Galactic...
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  • Directrix (rational normal scroll) Directrix is a spaceship in the Lensman series of novels by E. E. Smith. Directrix is the name of an indie alternative...
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    romance in the style of Edgar Rice Burroughs.: 10–18  Smith's later Lensman series and the works of Edmond Hamilton, John W. Campbell, and Jack Williamson...
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  • First Lensman (Fantasy Press 1950) Available online Galactic Patrol (Astounding Stories Sep 1937 – Feb 1938, Fantasy Press 1950) Gray Lensman (Astounding...
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  • a number of other authors and universes, such as E.E. "Doc" Smith's Lensman series and Reginald Bretnor's Ferdinand Feghoot (who is "Benedict Breadfruit"...
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    Triplanetary (novel) (category Lensman series novels)
    four novels of the Lensman series were published, Smith expanded and reworked Triplanetary into the first of two prequels for the series. The fix-up novel...
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  • Galactic Patrol (novel) (category Lensman series novels)
    not originally part of the Lensman story and were only later revised to connect them to the rest of the series. First Lensman was written later to bridge...
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  • Future History (Heinlein) (category Science fiction book series)
    Best All-Time Series in 1966, along with the Barsoom series by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the Lensman series by E. E. Smith, the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov...
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    pirates on Ganymede. A more widely known early example was E. E. Smith's Lensman series. While the first story, Triplanetary and most later sequels (Second...
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  • Port admiral (category Lensman series)
    in several futuristic military organisations in science fiction. In the Lensman novels, the rank of port admiral appeared as the most senior naval officer...
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  • setting based on the Lensman series. Upon its release, it was the first science fiction wargame to be available commercially. Lensman was generally praised...
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  • communications. Examples include: E. E. Smith used the term "ultrawave" in his Lensman series, for waves which propagated through a sub-ether and could be used for...
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  • parts Lens (surname) Lens, a fictional alien device in E. E. Smith's Lensman series Perspective (cognitive) Len (disambiguation) Lense (disambiguation)...
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    Foundation series, Childhood's End, The Lord of the Rings, Dune and the Lensman series, Straczynski wondered why no one had done a television series with the...
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  • city of Boston, Massachusetts. The name is a reference to the classic Lensman series by E. E. Smith, in which "Boskone" is a council of villains, and also...
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  • author of GURPS Lensman: Starkly Astounding Space-Opera Adventure, a book of role-playing instructions carefully based upon the Lensman series by E.E. Smith...
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  • Children of the Lens (novel) (category Lensman series novels)
    Press in an edition of 4,874 copies. It is the last book in Smith's Lensman series. The Children of the Lens are the culmination of the Arisian breeding...
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  • Batson/Captain Marvel in Shazam! (TV series) Mentor of Arisia, an extraterrestrial force in E. E. "Doc" Smith's Lensman series; see Children of the Lens An alien...
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  • Second Stage Lensmen (category Lensman series novels)
    Lensmen is the fifth volume in the Lensman series, and the last to feature Kimball Kinnison as the most powerful Lensman in the service of the Galactic Patrol...
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    fictitious space drives, introduced in E.E. Smith's 1934 Tri-planetary Lensman series.: 75  Devices that provide steady thrust through a stream of accelerated...
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