Front matter

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FIRST LENSMAN

E. E. "DOC" SMITH

PYRAMID BOOKS · NEW YORK

To E. Everett Evans

FIRST LENSMAN

A PYRAMID BOOK Published by arrangement with the author

Fantasy Press edition published 1950 Pyramid edition published December, 1964 Second printing July, 1966 Third printing April, 1967 Fourth printing September, 1967 Fifth printing May, 1968

Copyright 1950 by Edward E. Smith, Ph.D.

All Rights Reserved.

No part of this book may be reprinted without written permission of the publishers.

Printed in the United States of America

PYRAMID BOOKS are published by Pyramid Publications, Inc. 444 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022, U.S.A.

ATTACK FROM SPACE

The enemy spacefleet arrowed toward the armored mountain—nerve center of the Galactic Patrol. The Patrol battle cruisers swerved to meet them, and a miles-long cone of pure energy ravened out at the invaders, destroying whatever it touched.

But the moment before the force beam struck, thousands of tiny objects dropped from the enemy fleet and, faster than light, flashed straight at their target—each one an atom bomb powerful enough to destroy Patrol Headquarters by itself!

The Galactic Patrol—and civilization itself—had seconds to live. Unless a miracle happened....

A LENSMAN ADVENTURE

Second in the Great Series