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The second stage of a great ride,
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This review is from: First Lensman (Lensman Series, Book 2 / Pyramid, R-1114) (Paperback)
The Lensman Series is one of Science Fiction's great classics. It has everything. The story arch spans billions of years and travels across two galaxies. There are great space battles and secret spy intrigue. This is the ultimate battle between good and evil."First Lensman" is the second story in the series. Here we watch our planet explode onto the Galactic scene, barely surviving as hostile aliens try to Civilization. The Lens are a tool created by the Arisians to help Civilization. Virgil Samms is the first individual to receive a Lens. We watch as he struggles to protect our earth from politicians and pirates. He travels to Arisia where he is given a Lens. This gives him enough power to save Civilization, for now. This books ratchets up the roller coaster ride that continues through out the rest of the Lensman series. Each book expands in scope, with bigger space battles and badder aliens. Yet in book our heroes are able, sometimes barely able, to destroy the bad guys. If you enjoy Science Fiction and have never read the Lensman series, start with Triplanetary and then read First Lensman. You are in for a great ride.
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The way the future used to be,
By wiredweird "wiredweird" (Earth, or somewhere nearby) - See all my reviews (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER) (TOP 500 REVIEWER)
This review is from: First Lensman (Lensman Series, Book 2 / Pyramid, R-1114) (Paperback)
This is where the Lensman saga really begins, with the very first Lens. Vast forces of good and evil have been aligning against each other for untold eons, across breadth of the galaxy and beyond. At the time of this story, the balance seems about to tip. Space pirates, drug smugglers with ever more lethal wares, and corrupt political machines seem to have complete control of Earth (the only planet that much matters, as near as we can tell). Only one man, one small man stands in the way of chaos. Then, with help from the mysterious Arisians and their secret weapon, the Lens, that man doesn't seem so small any more.It's a grand and implausible tale of vast navies, utterly good good-guys and wholly evil bad guys, bold politicking against the entrenched machine, and a lot of manly swaggering. The cadre of The Lens (men only) grows, first on Earth and then elsewhere and, as you probably figured, they whup the goobers out of the biggest navy of badguys ever imagined - and just as the elections sweep their cronies from office. Great spacey swashbuckling, plus a little chaste and slightly confused romance just barely past Neolithic relations between the sexes. For all that, the technology is straight from the 1950s. Oh, there are the rayguns and whatnot, but when the going gets tough, it's slide rules, drafting table, and tube electronics all around. What's truly startling about this classic series is just how little future there was in Smith's future. Maybe that deeply entrenched retro sense is what makes this such a timeless classic - that and the boundless optimism in what can be accomplished with democracy, technology, and a band of good men. Oh, and maybe a woman. -- wiredweird
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