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contains billions of beings who in total can generate immense mental force. The Arisians add their own tremendous mental force to this. The Unit focuses the accumulated power onto one tiny point of the Eddorians' shields. The Eddorian shields are destroyed along with the Eddorian High Council. It is stated that this was the only thing the Arisians could not have done by themselves, but without its accomplishment the Eddorians would have eventually turned the tide and beaten the Arisians.
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to slay by mental force alone; a "sense of perception" which allows seeing by direct awareness without the use of the visual sense; the ability to control minds undetectably, including the ability to alter memories untraceably; the ability to perfectly split attention in order to perform multiple tasks with simultaneous focus on each; and the ability to better integrate their minds for superior thinking.
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Centuries pass, and eventually the final generations of the breeding program are born. On each of the four "best" planets, a single individual realizes the limits of his Arisian training and perceives the need to return to seek "second stage" training, which, it is later shown, to include the ability
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The Children of the Lens, together with the mental power of unknown millions of Lensmen of the Galactic Patrol, constitute the Arisians' intended means to destroy the Eddorians and make the universe safe for Civilization. The Galactic Patrol, summoned to work together in this way for the first time,
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Using the Lens as a means to test mental qualities and identify individuals able to help him, Virgil Samms visits races and species in other star systems, recruiting the best of them and forming the nucleus of a Galactic Patrol. Their opponents are discovered to be a widespread civilization based on
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sisters, grow up to be the five Children of the Lens. In their breeding, "almost every strain of weakness in humanity is finally removed". They are born already possessing the powers taught to second-stage Lensmen. They are the only beings of Civilization ever to see Arisia as it truly is, and the
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As the breeding program nears its conclusion, humans are selected as the best choice; at the same time, the breeding programs of the other three planets are terminated, and their penultimates never meet their planned mates. Kimball Kinnison meets and marries the product of the complementary human
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Although the Eddorians have developed mental powers almost equal to those of the Arisians, they rely instead for the most part on physical power, which has come to be exercised on their behalf by a hierarchy of underling races. They see the many races in the universe, with which the Arisians were
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after observing that our galaxy and a sister galaxy (the Second Galaxy) are passing through each other. This will result in the formation of billions of planets and the development of life upon some of them. Dominance over these life forms would offer the Eddorians an opportunity to satisfy their
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and the first Lens, given to First Lensman Virgil Samms of "Tellus" (Earth). Samms and Roderick Kinnison are members of the two breeding lines and they are both natural leaders, intelligent, forceful, and capable. The Arisians make it known that, if, Samms, the head of the Triplanetary Service,
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After undergoing advanced training, they are described as "third-stage" Lensmen, transcending humanity with mental scope and perceptions impossible for any normal person. Although newly adult, they are now expected to be more competent than the Arisians and to develop their own techniques and
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The series contains some of the largest-scale space battles ever written. Entire worlds are almost casually destroyed. Huge fleets of spaceships fight bloody wars of attrition. Alien races of two galaxies sort themselves into the allied, Lens-bearing adherents of "Civilization" and the enemy
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The Arisians detect the Eddorians' invasion of our universe and realize that the two races are too evenly matched for either to destroy the other without being destroyed themselves. The Eddorians do not detect the Arisians, who begin a covert breeding program on every world that can produce
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The Lensman was left unfinished. There was to have been at least a seventh volume. As always, Doc had worked it out in great detail, but never (so far as I know) wrote it down ... because it was unpublishable—then. But he told me the ending orally and in private.
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bears many parallels to the Lensmen, though the original editor (Julius Schwartz) denied any connection. Later writers would add characters that directly referenced the Lensman series, such as the extraterrestrial Green Lanterns
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The Lens gives its wearer a variety of mental capabilities, including those needed to enforce the law on alien planets, and to bridge the communication gap between different life-forms. It can provide mind-reading and
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on Earth, illustrated with the lives of several warriors and soldiers, from ancient times to the discovery of the first interstellar space drive. It adds an additional short novel (originally published with the
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breeding program, Clarissa MacDougall. She is a beautiful, curvaceous, red-haired nurse, who eventually becomes the first human female to receive her own Lens. Their children, a boy and two pairs of
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began negotiations with the author's estate for rights to film the Lensman series. The negotiations were for an 18-month renewable option. At the WonderCon convention in San Francisco in February,
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intelligent life, with particular emphasis on the four planets: Earth (Tellus), Velantia III, Rigel IV, and Palain VII, in the hope of creating a race that is capable of destroying the Eddorians.
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extant at the time of the books' writing, is that planets form only rarely, and therefore our First and Second Galaxies, with their many billions of planets, are unique.
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The Arisians remove themselves from the Cosmos in order to leave the Children of the Lens uninhibited in their future as the new guardians of Civilization.
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and finally, in the years up to 1954, Smith revised the rest of the series to remove inconsistencies between the original Lensman chronology and
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The key discovery comes when they try mind-merging. They discover they can merge their minds to effectively form one mental entity called
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abilities. It cannot be worn by anyone other than its owner, will kill any other wearer, and even a brief touch is extremely painful.
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only individuals developed over all the existence of billions of years able finally to penetrate the Eddorians' defense screens.
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is a 1984 Japanese animated film based on the Lensman novels. The movie is a loose adaptation of the series. It was dubbed by
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television series based on the Lensman novels. The 25-episode series aired from October 6, 1984 to August 8, 1985 in Japan.
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visits the Arisian planetary system he will be given the tool he needs to build the Galactic Patrol. That tool is the
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stories, in which similar lenses are the badges of the King's Messengers, invented by the wizard "Sir Edward Elmer".
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stories, including "Storm Cloud on Deka" (June 1942) and "The Vortex Blaster Makes War" (October 1942) for
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A fourth novel, which was to have told the story of the Red Lensman, was discussed, but never completed.
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Five issues, written by Tim Eldred, drawn by Tim Eldred and inks by Paul Young and Ken Branch.
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Both the 1984 long-running theatrical animation and the animated TV series were adapted into
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Six issues, written by Paul O'Conner, drawn by Tim Eldred, ink by Paul Young, cover art by
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Using the same fictional universe, but not concerning the central plot, Smith wrote the
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The Eddorians, a dictatorial, power-hungry race, come into our universe from an alien
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pocket volumes. No English translation of these two manga has been published so far.
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I shan't repeat it; it is not my story. Possibly somewhere there is a manuscript—I
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so! All I will say is that the ending develops by inescapable logic from clues in
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dominance hierarchies and using organized crime to assume control of new planets.
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mental power. The underlying assumption for this series, based on theories of
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intending to build a peaceful civilization, as fodder for their power drive.
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Except for the two prequel novels, the stories first appeared as serials in
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books as part of the Fantasy Press imprint), Smith rewrote his 1934 story
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Seven issues, written by Paul O'Conner and drawn and inks by Tim Eldred.
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series, which led to the publishing of "Moon Prospector" in 1966,
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novels that feature the alien Second-Stage Lensmen (known as the
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TV episodes, but they also began writing additional material.
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1948–54 series of science-fiction novels by E. E. "Doc" Smith
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comics run consisted almost entirely of adaptations of the
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series, rewritten from the pre-Lensman serial version)
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In "Larger Than Life", a tribute to Smith written by
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in 1949. Garrett also referred to the Lenses in his
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The series has been adapted into the board wargames
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Originally, the series consisted of the four novels
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Index

Arisian
Lensman (disambiguation)

Triplanetary
First Lensman
Galactic Patrol
Gray Lensman
Second Stage Lensmen
Children of the Lens
Edward Elmer "Doc" Smith, Ph.D.
Science fiction
Fantasy Press
hardcover
paperback
Audiobook
science fiction
E. E. "Doc" Smith
Hugo award
Foundation series
Isaac Asimov
Triplanetary (novel) § Plot synopsis
First Lensman § Plot synopsis
Galactic Patrol (novel) § Plot synopsis
Grey Lensman § Plot synopsis
Second Stage Lensmen § Plot synopsis
Children of the Lens (novel) § Plot synopsis
contemplative
stellar evolution
space-time continuum
breeding program

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