Gray Lensman

[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Astounding Science Fiction October, November, December 1939, January 1940. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that...

Among the world-girdling fortifications of a planet distant indeed from star cluster AG 257-4736 there squatted sullenly a fortress quite similar to Helmuth's own. Indeed, in so...

For perhaps a second--certainly no longer--those incredible, those undreamed-of beams persisted before winking out into blackness; but that second had been long enough. Three ri...

Thus unromantically did Kimball Kinnison, Gray Lensman, acknowledge the first glimmerings of the dawning perception of a vast fact--that this nurse and he were two between whom...

Henderson's fingers swept over his board as rapidly and as surely as those of an organist over the banked keys of his console; producing, not chords and arpeggios of harmony, bu...

"Very fine work, son, very fine indeed," Haynes congratulated the younger man at the conclusion of his report. "We shall begin at once, and be ready to rush things through when...

As soon as the connection had been broken, Kinnison realized that the thing could not be done that way; that he could not stay out of it. No man alive save himself could prevent...

"Who in hell ever said you was a pal of mine, you Radelig-gig-gigian pimp?" The supposedly three quarters drunken, certainly three quarters naked, Lensman got up, wobbled a litt...

As has been said, Kinnison rode the blow of the blackjack forward and downward, thus robbing it of some of its power. It struck him hard enough so that the thug did not suspect...

"I'll do that." The Port Admiral touched a button and in a few minutes a trimly attractive blonde entered the room. "Miss Hostetter, this is Lensman Kinnison, Unattached. Please...

"'Do the men of the Patrol know--?' I perceive the question in your minds. They do not. None save a few of the most powerful of their minds has the slightest inkling of the trut...

Peculiar people, these toilers in the interplanetary voids; flotsam and jetsam; for the most part the very scum of space. Some solar systems contain vastly greater amounts of as...

"So what? For why go to insult me, a business man? Sure I can't give what that stuff is worth--who could? You ought to know how I got to get rid of hot goods. You killed, ain't...

Kinnison, for his part, was almost content. This story, too, would get around. It would be in Miners' Rest before he got back there, and it would help--help a lot.

"Think I know, but not quite sure yet--got to check it. Can't get it from him--he's told everything he really knows. He didn't really see anything, it was practically invisible....

As slowly--or as rapidly--as the transformation had waxed, it waned. He was again free to move. As far as he could tell, everything was almost as before. The _Dauntless_ was abo...

"You big, knot-headed Valerian ape!" Kinnison hissed a malevolent thought; not as the expedition's commander to a subordinate, but as an outraged friend speaking plainly to frie...

The visitor threw off his coat and removed his jacket, revealing a shirt of sheer glamorette through which could be plainly seen his hirsute chest and the smooth, bronzed skin o...

"What a mess! Never thought of it that way, but you're right, as usual. They wouldn't be there at all unless they thought--but they must know, chief, that they can't hold off th...

"Now remember, Worsel, no matter what happens to me, or around me, you stay out. Don't come in after me. Help me all you can with your mind, but not otherwise. Take everything I...

"Figures only approximations because of lack of exact data on variations in density of medium and on distance necessarily lost in detouring stars," the speaker chattered on. "Su...

"The thyroid controls growth, but does not initiate it, he learned. This fact seemed to indicate that there was an unknown hormone involved--that certain lower types possess an...

"It's a pity that you got your new ones so quick. You'd appreciate 'em much more after a few years without 'em. But to get down to business. The fleets have been taking off for...

"No. He knows that Tellus is very strongly held, and that this is no ordinary fleet. He will have to concentrate everything he has upon either one or the other--it is almost inc...

"But nothing!" Haynes broke in. "I know what's the matter. Don't try to fib to an old campaigner, and don't be silly. I said the Patrol was throwing this wedding--_all_ of it. A...