FA CHRONICLES OF THE LENSMEN v1 E.E. "Doc" Smith hardcover

CHRONICLES OF THE LENSMEN, VOLUME 1 (3-IN-1)
by E.E. "Doc" Smith

Hardcover. 1998. First SF Book Club Edition. This book is NOT AVAILABLE IN
STORES IN HARDCOVER! Beautiful dust jacket. Book and dust jacket in excellent
condition, like new! Includes the full-length novels Triplanetary, First
Lensman and Galactic Patrol.

The planets Arisia and Eddore were at war for control of the Universe. The
battleground was a tiny, backward planet in a remote galaxy. Earth.

Only a few Earthlings knew of the titanic struggle, and of the strange,
decisive role they were to play in the war of the super-races....

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 set the standard
for all science fiction to come, creating what David Weber calls 'the great
archetypes of the genre': Millions of starships, planet-devouring negaspheres,
'beams of lambent energy,' 'cones of destruction,' hyper-spatial tubes,
millenia-old beings of pure intellect and limitless psionic powers, whole
galaxies wracked by war. These were the stuff and the scale on which Doc Smith
wrote, and thumping good it was.


A must for fans of classic space opera sci-fi! Jacket/poster art by John
Berkey. (Approx. 709 pp.).

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