TY - BOOK AU - Smith,E.E. TI - First Lensman T2 - Lensman 2 AV - PS PY - 2015/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Science fiction KW - Space warfare -- Fiction KW - Imaginary wars and battles -- Fiction KW - Human-alien encounters -- Fiction KW - Space colonies -- Fiction KW - Outer space -- Exploration -- Fiction KW - Space security -- Fiction KW - Psychic ability -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Lensman; Release date is 2015-07-25; Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net; Original publication data not identified N2 - "First Lensman" by E. E. Smith is a space opera novel published in 1950. The story chronicles Virgil Samms, the first being chosen to wear the Lens—a telepathic badge of authority granted by the benevolent Arisians. As founding leader of the Galactic Patrol, Samms must recruit worthy Lensmen across alien worlds to defend Civilization against corrupt politicians, drug traffickers, and space pirates. All leads converge toward a single enemy, culminating in massive space battles and a desperate political campaign to secure humanity's future. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49525 ER -