Gray Lensman - Couverture souple

Smith, E E Doc

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1515461327 ISBN 13 : 9781515461326

Editeur : Positronic Publishing, 2023

Synopsis

Kimball Kinnison, the greatest Lensman of his day, is on a mission to destroy the dreaded space pirates known as the Boskone. The Boskonians are set on complete conquest of the civilized worlds. Their strongholds are shielded from the Lensman by impenetrable thought screens.

Kinnison is up to the task, but what he doesn't know is that Boskone's influence reaches all way into his beloved Galactic Patrol. Will he discover this before it's too late.

A grand adventure from the father of Space Opera.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

E. E. Doc Smith (Edward Elmer Smith, 1890-1965) was one of the foundational architects of modern science fiction and the creator of the space-opera tradition as it is still understood today. Trained as a chemical engineer, Smith brought a unique combination of scientific imagination and narrative escalation to his fiction, forever changing the scale at which science fiction stories could operate.He is best known for the Lensman series, a sweeping saga of galactic conflict that introduced concepts now taken for granted in the genre: universe-spanning wars, hierarchies of advanced intelligences, escalating cosmic stakes, and heroes entrusted with authority beyond conventional law. Long before such ideas became common, Smith envisioned civilizations locked in conflicts measured not in nations or planets, but in entire galaxies.Though his work first appeared in the pulp magazines of the 1930s and 1940s, Smith's influence extends far beyond that era. The Lensman series directly shaped later generations of science fiction writers and helped define the narrative DNA of space opera, from epic military SF to modern cinematic franchises. His stories are remembered not merely as early examples of the genre, but as the moment when science fiction discovered how big it could be.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Positronic Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1515461327
• ISBN 13: 9781515461326
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 178
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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