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Title: Second Stage Lensman
Subtitle: Lensman Series
Author: E. E. 'Doc' Smith
Narrator: Reed McColm
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-14-07
Publisher: Books in Motion
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 220 votes
Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Classic

Publisher's Summary:
Kimball Kinnison and the Galactic Patrol again take up battle with Boskonia. The warfare leads to some odd corners of the universe and some stranger worlds. They include the planet Lyrane where a matriarchal society exists and the frigid world of Onio, with its incredibly alien inhabitants.
Hi-fi sci-fi: listen to more in the
series.
(P)2006 Books in Motion. This recording is produced by arrangement with The Estate of E. E. "Doc" Smith and Virginia Kidd, Inc.

Critic Reviews:
"The most towering figure in science fiction, thanks to the enormous scope of his novels." (Isaac Asimov)"If you wish to understand the roots of modern science fiction, you have to read the Lensman saga." (Allen Steele)"A finalist for a special Hugo Award for All-Time Best Series, 'Lensman' is considered by many sf heads to be the greatest of the space operas and clearly a source for such successors as
Star Trek and
Star Wars." (
Library Journal)

Members Reviews:
The greatest series going
I have read and re-read this series since I first discovered it in the early 60s. The series made every boomer patrol I made.
The only series that matches it for pure fun is the Aubry-Maturin Series.

Lensman Series is Still Fun
Okay. The narrator of this series is not the best. Nevertheless, this story still works if you can get past some of writing (the "look of eagles" in the eyes of Lensmen for instance). If you've never dipped into these before, get Galactic patrol, Gray Lensman, Second Stage Lensmen and Children of the Lens in that order. If you are still hooked, go back and pick up First lensman. You have to be a real diehard lensmen fan to slug through Triplanetary.
This is classic space opera, good versus evil, with the guys in the white hats destined to win. Smith wasn't very good at envisioning future technology, but he comes up with some fun ideas. The inertialess drive is an interesting solution to FSL travel and the negasphere is one of the best Sci_Fi weapons ever imagined. His aliens are fun too, especially the frigid planet dwellers. Considering that the series was started in the late 30s, it holds up amazingly well.

One of the Very Best
Doc Smith's Lensmen series is a yearly read or listen for me. Since being given FIRST LENSMEN as a boy of about 14, I found and read the others in the series. Now for more than 40 years they have been a yearly affair. Joining Heinlein, Clarke, and a few others that merit this yearly ritual. Rooted in past behaviors though they are, yet still I travel at a thousand parsecs a minute.
Do your self a favor and jump into these stories. They vied for top SF series ever written with Asimov's Foundation and are include lovingly in Heinlein's NUMBER OF THE BEAST.

app troubles
as always EESmoths stories are exceptional if only the useless appbwpuld work properly I wouldn't hate it so much

A classic series of class Sci Fi books ruined
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
A classic series of class Sci Fi books ruined by poor narration and interpretation. I wouldn't suggest any Brit buying an audio book narrated by Reed McColm.