First Lensman (The Lensman Series, Book 2)

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Summary: Excellent, technical novel for pure science fiction lovers.
Review: When I was eight years old, my parents bought me a science fiction book titiled "Tom Corbet, Space Cadet". From that moment on I was an avid science fiction reader. That was some forty-one years ago and I still read sci-fi today. THE most meaningful and well written series I have ever read is the 'Lensman' series by E.E. "Doc" Smith. These stories created extremely vivid images of unknown forces such as the Lens of Arisia, fantastic ships with amazing, yet believeable weaponry, and, of course Boskone, the epitomy of Organized Crime. This classic struggle of Good against Evil is epoch with characters who became the best roll models a young person could have; those with an unyielding sense of right and a desire to make the universe (world) a better, safer place to live. I read my paperback copies of these books until they were no longer readable, but I still have them. I have collected science fiction for forty plus years and have a fairly large collection. Of all those books, only a few have the metal it takes to be remembered years after they were read and the Lensman series is one of those. I am so glad to find them in hardcover and would recommend them not only to the young sci-fi reader, but also the true sci-fi reader who is young at heart

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Summary: Return to a more innocent future....
Review: Yes, the writing is sexist. Yes, the style is dated. What was once original and cutting edge seems clumsy and cliched, but it is we who have changed. Reading these stories is a wonderful ride to an earlier time and a less jaded vision of the future.
I suggest reading "The First Lensman," before "TriPlanetary". You will not be disappointed as you devour the rest of the series.

Rating:
Summary: Return to a more innocent future....
Review: Yes, the writing is sexist. Yes, the style is dated. What was once original and cutting edge seems clumsy and cliched, but it is we who have changed. Reading these stories is a wonderful ride to an earlier time and a less jaded vision of the future.
I suggest reading "The First Lensman," before "TriPlanetary". You will not be disappointed as you devour the rest of the series.