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Second Stage Lensman (Lensman Series) (Paperback)

by E.E."Doc" Smith (Author)
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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Grafton; New Ed edition (9 Aug 1973)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0586038469
  • ISBN-13: 978-0586038468
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 134,252 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Space opera at its greatest, 6 Jun 2001
This review is from: Second Stage Lensman (Classic Lensman) (Paperback)
This is the fifth book of the Lensmen series. The social attitudes are old fashioned, the science is outdated, and the language is florid, but it is still a great read.

This is the third book to describe the exploits of Kimball Kinnison. These books are the core of the Lensman saga. Starting with Galactic Patrol the excitment is non-stop through to the end of Second Stage Lensman.

If you like action on a grand scale, this is a must read, but start with Triplanetary, First Lensman, or Galactic Patrol first.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Read this third!, 30 Mar 2009
By Paul Magnussen (Campbell, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Second Stage Lensman (Classic Lensman) (Paperback)
I (and many others) believe the best place to start with Doc Smith's "Lensman" series is Galactic Patrol; and as I've said why, at length, in my review of that opus, I won't repeat it here.

Furthermore, if you've already read "Patrol" and Gray Lensman with enjoyment, you'll hardly need my urging to continue.

This is nonetheless probably the weakest of the four main Lensman novels, mainly because of Smith's often-noted discomfort with female characters. It is a curious reflection on his powers as a writer that he can make a thoroughly convincing -- even likeable! -- character of a thirty-foot, crocodile-headed, winged python with eyes that come out on stalks, but can't manage the matriarch of a tribe of human Amazons (from the planet Lyrane II).

We cannot, to be sure, be surprised that Kinnison's skills at handling females are so deficient: after all, he's spent his formative years galumphing around the Galaxy in search of the arch-villain Helmuth, not hanging out like a normal teenager. Military genius he may be, but socially he's still an adolescent.

(Although... perhaps he's not *quite* as inexperienced as all that? Exactly what *were* his experiences as a Cadet with that "bedroom-eyed Aldebaranian hell-cat", the stunningly beautiful Dessa Desplaines? Whatever they were, they obviously left quite an impression: Kinnison -- normally unflappable even by outré developments like hyperspatial tubes materialising in the same room with him -- is reduced to a jelly at the mere thought of meeting her again.)

Still, be all that as it may, "Second Stage" has many compensating pleasures, not least the exploits of Nadreck, the cowardly four-dimensional Palainian lensman.

And it leads into one of the strongest finishes of any science fiction series, as Kim and Clarissa's offspring carry the struggle to its climax in Children of the Lens.
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