Second Stage Lensman

I'm reading this mainly because it's on the ballot for the retro Hugos for 1953 and, incidentally, I've read the fourth in the series already because it keeps being put on the "best SF ever lists". (I don't think it should be, but I may be a minority.) Moving on. I cringed a lot while reading this. Mo......more

Intergalactic Imbroglio! Fair or Foul! Mastermind Mocks Missive! "Hey! No Fair! I call timeout! Mentor of Arisia promised Boskone that he wouldn't intervene in Civilization's fate beyond the provision of the Lens. Then he directly helps his star pupil, Kimball Kinnison, to survive or win through on......more

As I mentioned in my review of "Gray Lensman," Book 4 of E.E. "Doc" Smith's famed six-part Lensman series, that installment, although it followed its predecessor, "Galactic Patrol," by mere seconds storywise, was actually released over 1½ years later; 20 months later, to be exact. Book 5 of the seri......more