Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Astounding Stories September, October, November, December 1937, January, February 1938. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Astounding Stories September, October, November, December 1937, January, February 1938. Extensive research did not uncover any...
2. Part 2[Footnote 1: In the "big teardrops"--cruisers and battleships--the driving force is always directed upward, along the geometrical axis of the ship, and the artificial gravity is...
3. Part 3"Needlers, fire at will!" barked Kinnison, and even that feeble resistance was ended. Keen-eyed needle-ray men, working at spy-ray visiplates, bored hole after hole into the cap...
4. Part 4"Helmuth, speaking for Boskone!" roared from the general-wave unscrambler. "Commanders of all vessels, of every class and tonnage, upon whatever mission bound, attention! The ve...
5. Part 5"Clamp a leg lock around my waist, Kim," he directed, the flashing thought in no whit interfering with his prodigious ax play, "and as soon as I get a chance, before the real tu...
6. Part 6"Hypnotism, through Worsel!" he barked, opposition now aflame. "So gradual that it never occurred to me to build up a resistance. Holy rackets, what a fool I've been! Fight 'em,...
7. Part 7Nor were these outlandish beings inoffensive. Utterly careless of the service life of the pitifully weak Delgonian projectors, they were using them at maximum drain and at extre...
8. Part 8"There! As soon as we get some time, Worsel, I'd like to work out these figures with some of your astronomers. They'll give me a right line through to Helmuth's headquarters--I...
9. Part 9"Most of the stuff is on automatic trip, but maybe I'd better keep an eye on things, at that. Let me know occasionally how you're getting along." And the Lensman went back to hi...
10. Part 10"That is well; you have ample time. Place your ship between Trenco and the sun. Enter the atmosphere exactly fifteen G-P minutes from ... check ... at twenty degrees after merid...
11. Part 11"When did it become necessary to draw diagrams and make blue prints for you?" demanded Helmuth, harshly. "We have ships manned by Rigellians and other races having the sense of...
12. Part 12As he neared his destination he put away his work, actuated his special mechanisms, and waited. When the speedster struck the barrier and stopped, Helmuth wore a faint, hard smi...
13. Part 13Then for weeks Prime Base was the scene of an activity furious indeed. New apparatus was designed and tested; shears for tracers and tractors, generators of screens against cosm...
14. Part 14"Hm-m-m. That changes things. I've got to find a pirate ship. I was planning on following a freighter or liner out toward Alsakan. But if there aren't any to follow--I'll have t...
15. Part 15"Thanks. And the same to you, Bus, and many of 'em. Well, if you won't let me stow away, I'll tag along behind, I guess. Clear ether--or rather, I hope it's full of pirates by t...
16. Part 16In the violated communications room the angry observer went on: "--attune myself and trace the origin of that prying look. It has disappeared now, but its sender cannot be dista...
17. Part 17"Yes." The surgeon smiled. "He is not the type to make an ideal patient; but, as I have told you before, I like to have patients that we do not like."
18. Part 18Suddenly, the torture ceased and the Lensman slumped down, a mental and physical wreck. He was white, trembling, sweating, shaken to the very core of his being. He was ashamed o...
19. Part 19"Yeah--bit off more than I could chew." And the Tellurian briefly described his misadventure with the Wheelmen of Aldebaran I. "This other thing has come up since then, though,...
20. Part 20"You see, Helmuth," Kinnison spoke conversationally to the board, his voice dripping vitriol, "playing it safe from a distance, and making other men pull your chestnuts out of t...
21. Part 21That Lensman, with nothing except a speedster and a bomb, had taken and had studied one of Boskone's new battleships, thus obtaining for his patrol the secret of cosmic energy....
22. Part 22He was now only of the galaxy, not of any one tiny dust grain of it. He was of the patrol. He _was_ the patrol, and he was taking his new responsibilities very seriously indeed....
23. Part 23Therefore, it is entirely useless even to attempt to describe what happened then, or to portray the spectacle that ensued when beam met screen. Why try to describe high C to a m...