That is, with the exception of one ship, the Britannia. Organized pirates, known as Boskonians, have gained a great advantage with a new type of space drive, making their ships far faster than anything the Patrol can build. The book deals with the earliest stages of Kinnison's career, starting with his graduation as a Lensman from the Patrol's academy. Kinnison and Clarissa MacDougall are the penultimates of the human breeding program the Arisians set up many eons earlier. Galactic Patrol introduces Kimball Kinnison, who will be the hero of the next three books - Gray Lensman, Second Stage Lensmen and (to a lesser extent) Children of the Lens. First Lensman was written later to bridge the events in Triplanetary to those in Galactic Patrol. It was later published in book form in 1950 by Fantasy Press.Īlthough portions of Triplanetary were written earlier, they were not originally part of the Lensman story and were only later revised to connect them to the rest of the series. The stories in this volume were the first parts written of the original Lensman saga. The novel was originally serialized in the magazine Astounding in 1937. Galactic Patrol is a science fiction novel by American author E.
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