<< 1 >>
Rating: 
Summary: ONE OF, IF NOT THE BEST BOOK I EVER READ.
Review: I READ THIS BOOK WHEN I WAS ABOUT 14 OR 15 AROUND 1964. THE ENTIRE LENSMAN SERIES ARE MY FAVORITE BOOKS AND I ACCESSED AMAZON.COM NOT EXPECTING TO FIND SUCH AN OLD SCIENCE FICTION BOOK. IT APPEARS IT WAS REPUBLISHED IN 1987. I HOPE THERE HAVE BEEN NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO IT AS I WANT TO READ IT AGAIN. IF ANYONE HAS AN OLD COPY, EVEN A BIT WORN BUT COMPLETE, I WOULD BE GLAD TO BUY IT. R WILLIS - bayhill@home.com
Rating:
Summary: ONE OF, IF NOT THE BEST BOOK I EVER READ.
Review: It does. Kim Kinnison gets his "Grays". The uniform color of an "Unattached", Gray Lensman. A Gray Lensman is beholden to no one. Wherever he goes, he is Judge, Jury and Executioner. At a whim he can call on the mighty forces of the Galactic Patrol to assist him. But sheer power alone is not enough to vanquish Boskone. It requires detective work, undercover spy work, scientific improvements and determination. Doc Smith bests himself with Gray Lensman. I have to give this book, along with Galactic Patrol and Second Stage Lensman an 11 because I've never read any as good. I have to reread these periodically to recharge my faith in Science Fiction. In this book you meet Wild Bill Williams, Meteor Miner, A Kim Kinnison undercover identity whose persona has formed the backbone of many sci fi novels that followed. Doc Smith tells a straight, action packed story with lots of intellectual contents but not in a soppy, sentimental tone. His heros know what is right and act on without questions. Don't look for much love and sex in Doc Smith books. Most romantic encounters are stated something like this, "They were young, they were together, and what follows is left as an exercise for the reader".
Rating:
Summary: After Galactic Patrol, you wonder, "How can it get better?"
Review: It does. Kim Kinnison gets his "Grays". The uniform color of an "Unattached", Gray Lensman. A Gray Lensman is beholden to no one. Wherever he goes, he is Judge, Jury and Executioner. At a whim he can call on the mighty forces of the Galactic Patrol to assist him. But sheer power alone is not enough to vanquish Boskone. It requires detective work, undercover spy work, scientific improvements and determination. Doc Smith bests himself with Gray Lensman. I have to give this book, along with Galactic Patrol and Second Stage Lensman an 11 because I've never read any as good. I have to reread these periodically to recharge my faith in Science Fiction. In this book you meet Wild Bill Williams, Meteor Miner, A Kim Kinnison undercover identity whose persona has formed the backbone of many sci fi novels that followed. Doc Smith tells a straight, action packed story with lots of intellectual contents but not in a soppy, sentimental tone. His heros know what is right and act on without questions. Don't look for much love and sex in Doc Smith books. Most romantic encounters are stated something like this, "They were young, they were together, and what follows is left as an exercise for the reader".
Rating:
Summary: space opera at its best
Review: it is best to read from book one but this book you can read alone
Rating:
Summary: Boskone smashed forever! Or not...
Review: Kim Kinneson, from the Arisian engineered line of super-mental powers battles Boskone and, in the process learns how to further add to his mental powers. Medonia gets stolen from Boskone and added to the weapons of Earth/interplanetary civilization, along with a secret weapon built on their planet by 50 of the superscientists Kim can get to work together. Fast paced action
Rating: 
Summary: GALACTIC JAMES BOND
Review: Kim Kinnison is Doc Smith's James Bond. What fun the author must have had putting this one to ink. Wouldn't bond have enjoyed using a negasphere, black hole-like wave of hyperspace, to destroy one bad guy planet? The next bad guy hideout planet squashed like a walnut between two colliding planets. What a gas! Your hero loses both hands and feet but not to worry. Brilliant geneticists discover how to excite the dormant pineal gland. Soon all body parts are regenerated (like a starfish grows new points) and the hero is good as new. Just in time to let him marry his beautiful, red headed nurse. Hollywood, here comes Kim Kinnison!
Rating:
Summary: Great books
Review: Started looking for these books online (read them all as a kid), and found them here. Bought all six at once, read them all through, *and they're just as good as I remember!*Buy 'em all, and you'll never look at Star Wars, Star Trek, or any of the rest the same again. This is the original, the real thing.
Rating:
Summary: Great books
Review: Started looking for these books online (read them all as a kid), and found them here. Bought all six at once, read them all through, *and they're just as good as I remember!* Buy 'em all, and you'll never look at Star Wars, Star Trek, or any of the rest the same again. This is the original, the real thing.
<< 1 >>
|
