E. E. Smith ~6 hr read

On graduation day, a newly minted Lensman of the Galactic Patrol is thrown against the pirate empire of Boskone, pitting the finest young mind of humanity against a galaxy of organized evil.

E. E. 'Doc' Smith's 1937 novel is the thunderous heart of the Lensman saga, grand space opera of superscience, vast fleets, and cosmic good against cosmic evil. Bold, foundational, irresistible. Read it for one of the most influential space epics ever written, where the war for the galaxy truly begins.

In its time

Published in 1937, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

~6 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Hans Waldemar Wessolowski