#gray lensman

[fabiansociety]

“…near them there crouched or huddled or lay at ease a many-tentacled creature indescribable to man. It was not exactly like an octopus. Though spiny, it did not resemble at all closely a sea-cucumber. Nor, although it was scaly and toothy and wingy, was it, save in the vaguest possible way, similar to a lizard, a sea serpent, or a vulture. Such a description by negatives is, of course, pitifully inadequate; but, unfortunately, it is the best that can be done.”

you ever wonder what lovecraft would sound like if he was normal about the sea

[xinu1941-1966]

illustration：真鍋博　hiroshi MANABE

グレー・レンズマン　1974　創元推理文庫 japan

Gray Lensman 　1939

#真鍋博　#hiroshi MANABE　#Edward E. Smith　#EEスミス　#レンズマン　#Lensman Series　#lensman

[believerindaydreams]

Thursday again: hurricane winds edition

We had one (1) nice warm day and then the weather turned nasty again. City. Gal. Even with kippers and gray skies you ain't gonna be London, please come up with some better weather soon.

Listening

Reading

Running with the Night. Lionel Richie. Subject of a series of stupid injokes with SO.

I am a sucker for 80s chords is what.

Working on the David Kyle Lensman reread. I've developed a distaste for second wave feminism narratives about "girl is pretending to be male to get a male-only job but when she is inevitably revealed it's all okay cos she is Just As Good As A Boy and hey she gets to wear dresses again."

Kyle has one as an OC. The other OC is a dude with Dead Wife Man Pain. I am perhaps too jaded by Fallout to object to the trope as much as I ought to.

However, the important part is that Kyle writes a very good dragon, which is what I'm here for. Worsel my beloved!

Visiting

The only good thing about spending a dumb amount of time at Best Buy was getting to shop at the associated strip mall, which means I am now supplied with jelly beans, fried crab, and a party sized bag of cups. Are plastic cups good for the environment? No. Will I drink water if I have to wash all those cups? Also no.

Drinking

Trader Joe's coconut drink is absolutely the best coconut drink I've had outside of an Indian restaurant. naturally it therefore costs umpty zillion dollars and can't be bought in bulk.

Playing

The Long Dark just updated and all the mods are in disarray. Wish I hadn't updated in a fit of enthusiasm.

I can play spider solitaire on a phone again tho! Yay!

Writing

Not feeling it.

[nem0c]

Politely but firmly asked to leave the function

Gray Lensman, E. E. ‘Doc’ Smith, Astounding Science Fiction, 1939 Illustration: Charles Schneeman

[audiobooks535]

audiobook : Gray Lensman by E. E. Smith

#audiobook #audiobooks #audiobookstagram #audiobooklove #loveaudiobooks #audiobooklover #audiobooknarrator #audiobooksrock #audiobookreview #audiobooksofinstagram #audiobookph #audiobooksph #audiobookclub #audiobookaddict #audiobookobsession #freeaudiobooks #iloveaudiobooks #audiobooki #freeaudiobook #audiobookworm #audiobooksforthewin #eaudiobooks #audiobooksrule #newaudiobook #audiobooksforfree #audiobooksforkids

[thepaisleyreview]

Science-Fiction. Sorted.

Key: strikethrough means duplicate to be deleted ; bold means recommended ; I have not listened to everything.

A-C

Abbott, Edwin A - Flatland (1884) Banks, Iain M - Use of Weapons (1990) Bear, Greg - Eon (1985) Bester, Alfred - The Demolished Man (1953) Bradbury, Ray - The Martian Chronicles Brin, David - Startide Rising (1983) Brin, David - The Postman (1985) Brin, David - The Uplift War (1987)

Dick, Philip K

Dick, Philip K - UBIK (1969) Dick, Phillip K - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch 1964 Philip K Dick - VALIS - 1981 Dick, Philip K - Broken Bubble (1988) Dick, Philip K - Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep (1966) Dick, Philip K - Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (1974) Dick, Philip K - Interviews [ note: unsorted ] Dick, Philip K - Mr. Spaceship (1953) Dick, Philip K - Of Withered Apples Dick, Philip K - Radio Free Albemuth (1976) Dick, Philip K -The Man in the High Castle (1962) Dick, Philip K - The Minority Report and Other Stories (2002) Dick, Philip K - Ubik (1969) Dick, Phillip K -A Scanner Darkly (1977) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick - BBC Radio

E-G

Effinger, George Alec - A Fire In The Sun (Budayeen 2) Effinger, George Alec - The Exile Kiss (Budayeen 3) Effinger, George Alec - When Gravity Fails (Budayeen 1) Farmer, Philip Jose - To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971)

Gibson, William [note: incomplete - have misfiled some]

Gibson, William - All Tomorrows Parties Count Zero (1986) (96kb mp3) Gibson, William - Idoru Neuromancer (1984) [ note: read by the author ] Pattern Recognition (2003) Virtual Light The Peripheral - William Gibson (2014) Agency Alien III An Audible Original Drama

H - Haldeman, Joe - The Forever War Hamilton, Peter F - The Reality Dysfunction (1996) Herbert, Frank - Dune Keyes, Daniel - Flowers for Algernon LeGuin, Ursula - The Dispossessed - 1974 LeGuin, Ursula - The Lathe of Heaven - 1971 LeGuin, Ursula - The Left Hand Of Darkness (1969) LeGuin, Ursula - The Left Hand of Darkness (Alt Copy) LeGuin, Ursula - The Word For The World Is Forest (1976) Lem, Stanislaw - Solaris (1950) L'Engle, Madelein - A Wrinkle in Time Lewis, CS - Out of the Silent Planet (1938) May, Julian - The Many-Colored Land (1981)

McDevitt, Jack - Chindi McDevitt, Jack - Engines_of_god McDevitt, Jack - Time Travelers Never Die -2009 McDevitt, Jack - Echo- Jack McDevitt McDevitt, Jack - Seeker McDevitt, Jack - The Devil's Eye McDevitt, Jack - Polaris-Jack McDevitt McDevitt, Jack - talentforwar.m4b McDonald, Ian - Hyberabad Days Morgan, Richard - Altered Carbon (2002) Niven, Larry - Ringworld - 1970 Niven & Pournelle - The Mote in God's Eye Pohl, Frederik - Gateway Powers, Tim - On Stranger Tides Powers, Tim - Declare Powers, Tim - The Anubis Gates Powers, Tim - Three Days to Never Reynolds, Alasdair Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds - 2000

Robinson, Kim Stanley - Aurora.m4a Robinson, Kim Stanley - Mars Trilogy [AudioBooks] Robinson, Kim Stanley - New York 2140 Robinson, Kim Stanley - The Years of Rice and Salt Robinson, Kim Stanley - Three Californias Triptych 01 - The Wild Shore [Rudnicki] Robinson, Kim Stanley- Three Californias Triptych 02 - The Gold Coast [Rudnicki] Robinson, Kim Stanley- Three Californias Triptych 03 - Pacific Edge [Rudnicki] Rucker, Rudy Rucker, Rudy - Ware 1 - Software Rucker, Rudy - Ware 2 - Wetware Rucker, Rudy - Ware 3 - Freeware Rucker, Rudy - Ware 4 - Realware

Sagan, Carl - Contact Scalzi, John - Old Man's War (2005) Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein (1818) Simak, Clifford - Way Station (1963) Simmons, Dan - Hyperion Simmons, Dan - Ilium (2003) Smith, E E 'Doc' - Gray Lensman (1940) Stephenson, Neal - The Diamond Age (1995) Sterling, Bruce - Mirrorshades - The Cyberpunk Anthology

Wells, HG - The Invisible Man (1897) Wells, HG - The War of the Worlds Wells, Martha - Artifical condition Willis, Connie - Doomsday Book (1992) Wyndham, John - The Day of the Triffids (1951) Wyndham, John - The Chrysalids Verne, Jules - Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) Vinge, Vernor - A Fire Upon the Deep (1991)

[tara-of-helium]

Gray Lensman. Edward E. Smith, 1939. Illustrated by Ric Binkley.

[vintagegeekculture]

I discovered that my local library's ebook selection only had "First Lensman" out of the whole series, shrugged and checked it out anyway, and - well - long story short, my cosplayer's heart went all a-flutter over Jill's "violent shade of 'radio-active' green" dress from the Ambassadors' Ball.

I'm leaning kind of "Iris van Herpen but 1950s spacefuture" as I try to design something based on the description given (the nature of the bodice in particular made me think of her designs), but then I realized you'd probably know if there was an illustrated edition out there to use as further reference. So - is there? Or am I flying blind beyond the implicit influence of eveningwear styles in the year the book was published?

(Either way, I finally have an excuse to dip my toes into constructing an evening gown! Thank you for selling me on this series!)

I am delighted to hear I inspired you. My statement there was not entirely serious and I never expected anyone would do it. I'd like to see what you come up with. You should consider looking into the works of my personal favorite fashion designer, Charles James, active from the 40s-60s. One of the most striking things about his outfits are the simplicity. This, for instance, is all one piece of cloth, the emphasis is not on frills or ornamentation but streamlining, calling attention to the silhouette.

There are a couple moments in the Lensman books you should probably take a look at, if you're interested in costume ideas for women that are evening gowns. The first is the Grand Ball for the Grand Fleet in Chapter 2 of Gray Lensman. I always liked that one because it was a rare glimpse of what everyday life in the Lensman Galaxy looked like. We spent too much time with Lensman and in the criminal underworld and with battle fleets.

The city's largest ball-room was a blaze of light and color. A thousand polychromatic lamps flooded their radiance downward through draped bunting upon an even more colorful throng. Two thousand items of feminine loveliness were there, in raiment whose fabrics were the boasts of hundreds of planets, whose hues and shades put the spectrum itself to shame. There were over two thousand men, clad in plain or beribboned or bemedaled full civilian dress, or in the variously panoplied dress uniforms of the many Services.

"You're dancing with Miss Forrester first, Kinnison," the surgeon introduced them informally, and the Lensman found himself gliding away with a stunning blonde, ravishingly and revealingly dressed in a dazzlingly blue wisp of Manarkan glamorette--fashion's dernier cri.

To the uninformed, Kinnison's garb of plain gray leather might have seemed incongruous indeed in that brilliantly and fastidiously dressed assemblage. But to those people, as to us of today, the drab, starkly utilitarian uniform of the Unattached Lensman transcended far any other, however resplendent, worn by man: and literally hundreds of eyes followed the strikingly handsome couple as they slid rhythmically out upon the polished floor. But a measure of the tall beauty's customary poise had deserted her. She was slimly taut in the circle of the Lensman's arm, her eyes were downcast, and suddenly she missed a step.

I don't recommend dressing up as a Lyranian at all, unless you wish to be very very popular. Although there is one notable and terrible female villain, in a series for which that is a rarity: one of the Black Lensmen, the evil counterparts created to counter the Lensmen, is a psionically gifted female Lyranian.

Another outfit that probably suggests itself is in Second Stage Lensmen, when Clarissa becomes the Red Lensman, the first female Lensman in history. Clarissa MacDougal was prone to Midwestern modesty to the point it was hysterical:

It was, and very shortly Sector Chief Nurse Clarrissa MacDougall appeared in her wonted immaculately-white, stiffly-starched uniform. She would not wear the Grays to which she was entitled; nor would she--except when defying Kinnison--claim as her right any one of the perquisites or privileges which were so indubitably hers. She was not, never had been, and never would or could be a real Lensman, she insisted. At best, she was only a synthetic--or an imitation--or a sort of amateur--or maybe a "Red" Lensman--handy to have around, perhaps, for certain kinds of jobs, but absolutely and definitely not a regular Lensman. And it was this attitude which was to make the Red Lensman not merely tolerated, but loved as she was loved by Lensmen, Patrolmen, and civilians alike throughout the length, breadth, and thickness of Civilization's bounds.

[snuh]

Jack Gaughan: Gray Lensman - Pyramid Books #X-1245, October 1965

[bookmaven]

TRIPLANETARY by EdwardEdward E. Smith E. Smith. [Lensman #1]

First serialized in Amazing, January 1934 with a cover by Leo Morey. First edition hardcover (Fantasy Press, 1948)Cover by A.J. Donnell.

———

TRIPLANETARY is a prologue to the Lensman series. It begins with the conflict between the Eddorians and the Arisians which has gone on throughout Earth history. The Arisians seek to breed human genetic lines to produce the ultimate weapon in their war with Eddore.

With the covert help of the Arisians, humanity explores the Solar System and forms the Triplanetary League — an alliance of between Earth, Mars, and Venus.

Interplanetary commerce is plagued by a fleet of pirates led by Gray Roger — actually Gharlane of Eddore. In the midst of a large-scale engagement between the pirates and the Triplanetary Patrol, an amphibious alien race known as the Nevians show up. The Nevians decide that humans are inferior beings, and carve up both fleets.

On Earth, scientists work feverishly on their new "Super Ship". It is equipped with mankind's first inertia-less drive and can travel faster than light.

Let the space opera begin!

[fanlit]

Gray Lensman: Book 4 of one of the greatest space operas. https://t.co/JysJ6wCQ0K … https://t.co/7YQ2BkBEhd #SFF (from the archive)

[outfitandtrend]

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[believerindaydreams]

"Exotic rugs were scattered over the deck flooring, personally collected by the Gray Lensman before the things they had covered had personally collected him."

I am rather fond of David Kyle's Lensman books, some of the most successful authorized sequels I ever read. But he obviously thinks of Lensman Kim as a jock who happens to be able to calculate integrals in his head while Smith's Kim is a nerd who happens to be able to wield a thirty pound space axe. There's a difference.

[nem0c]

At The Function

Gray Lensman, E. E. ‘Doc’ Smith, Astounding Science Fiction, 1939 Illustration: Charles Schneeman

[paperbacksciencefiction]

Gray Lensman by E. E. "Doc" Smith $4 Pyramid Books (1974) A book from Smith's classic Lensman series. The cover art was done by Jack Gaughan. . Overall Good Condition, Good Spine With Slight Lean And Slight Crease, Binding Tight, Pages Look Good . . . #graylensman #eedocsmith #paperbacksciencefiction https://www.instagram.com/p/CDT2HrMg5TM/?igshid=eevo9qp39aww

[thesnakesaid]

To Be Read

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller

A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

Alanna Series by Tamora Pierce

Alien Earth by Megan Lindholm

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Amy, My Daughter by Mitch Winehouse

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

Anathem by Neal Stephenson

And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts

Belgaraiad series by David Eddings

Binary Star by Sarah Gerard

Black Company series by Glen Cook

Bodily Harm by Margaret Atwood

Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum

Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon by Spider Robinson

Captive Prince by C.S. Pacat

Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood

Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke

Christopher Moore books (?)

Cloven Hooves by Megan Lindholm

Conan by Robert E. Howard

Contact by Carl Sagan

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Dangerous Women ed. George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

Death Comes to Pemberly by P.D. James

Death Is a Lonely Business by Ray Bradbury

Declare by Tim Powers

Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delaney

Discworld by Terry Pratchett

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K. Dick

Doctor Sleep by Stephen King

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

Dragon Flight by Anne McCaffrey

Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey

Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath by H.P. Lovecraft

Dune by Frank Herbert

Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario

Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward

Fafhrd and Gray Mouser books by Fritz Leiber

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Four Past Midnight by Stephen King

Freakonomics by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven Levitt

Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais

Going Postal by Terry Pratchett

Gun, with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem

Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

Hyperion by Dan Simmons

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

Icewind Dale Trilogy by R.A. Salvatore

If I Stay by Gayle Forman

In the Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan

Inferno by Dante

Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne

Kingkiller Chronicle #1 and #2 by Patrick Rothfuss (upon announcement of release date for #3)

Kushiel’s Legacy by Jacqueline Carey

Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult

Legend by David Gemmel

Lensman Series by E.E. “Doc” Smith

Little, Big by John Crowley

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Longbourn by Jo Baker

Lucifer’s Hammer by Larry Niven

Lud in Mist by Hope Mirrlees

Malazan Books of the Fallen by Steven Erikson

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn by Tad Williams

Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson

My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem

My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult (reread)

My Two Moms by Zach Wahls

Neuromancer by William Gibson

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Nova by Samuel R. Delaney

Old Man’s War by John Scalzi

Origin by Dan Brown

One Thousand and One Nights

Only Forward by Michael Marshal Smith

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Perdido Street Station by China Mieville

Pride by Ibi Zoboi

Purgatorio by Dante

Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke

Riftwar Saga by Feist

Ringworld by Larry Niven

River World Series by Phillip Jose Farmer

Rogues ed. George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois

Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally

Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde

Shades of Magic by V.E. Schwab

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Small Gods by Terry Pratchett

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (reread)

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Stepford Wives by Ira Levin

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein

Sunshine by Robin McKinley

Surfacing by Margaret Atwood

The Amber Chronicles by Roger Zelazny

The Art of the Lord of the Rings by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull

The Belgariad by David Eddings

The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe

The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov

The Chronicler of Master Li and Number Ten Ox by Barry Hughart

The Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson

The Codex Alera Series by Jim Butcher

The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor

The Conan Chronicles by Robert E. Howard

The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart

The Culture Series by Lane M. Banks

The Dark Tower by Stephen King

The Death Cure by James Dashner

The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

The Dragonlance Chronicles by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher

The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood

The Elric Saga by Michael Moorcock

The Epic Adventures of Lydia Bennet by Kate Rorick and Rachel Kiley

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

The Final Testament of the Holy Bible by James Frey

The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay

The Fisher King Trilogy by Tim Powers

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

The Glass Book of the Dream Eaters by Gordon Dahlquist

The Gormenghast Series by Mervyn Peake

The Gypsy by Megan Lindholm

The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood

The Hollows series by Kim Harrison

The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury

The Inheritance & Other Stories by Megan Lindholm and Robin Hobb

The Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini

The Kalevala by Elias Lonnrot

The Ki and Vandien Quartet by Megan Lindholm

The Last Herald-Mage Trilogy by Mercedes Lackey

The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle

The Legend of Drizzt by R.A. Salvatore

The Long Walk by Stephen King

The Malazan Book of the Fallen Series by Stephen Erikson

The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein

The Mote in God’s Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

The Neverending Story by Michael Ende

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

The Once and Future King by T.H. White

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory

The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

The Pact by Jodi Picoult (reread)

The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

The Red Magician by Lisa Goldstein

The Riddlemaster of Hed series by Patricia McKillip

The Riftwar Saga by Raymond E. Feist

The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood

The Shannara Trilogy by Terry Brooks

The Shining by Stephen King (reread)

The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien (reread)

The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis

The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova

The Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind

The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult (reread)

The Third Hill North of Town by Noah Bly

The Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

The Uplift Trilogy by David Brin

The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold

The Walking Dead: The Road to Woodbury

The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

The Wilful Princess and the Piebald Prince by Robin Hobb

The Xanth Series by Piers Anthony

The Xenogenesis Trilogy by Octavia Butler

Tillu and Kerlew by Megan Lindholm

Time Enough for Love by Robert Heinlein

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (reread)

Tripod Trilogy by Samuel Youd

Warriors ed. George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois

Watchmen by Alan Moore

Watership Down by Richard Adams

We Are Pirates by Daniel Handler

Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

Wicked by Gregory Maguire

Will Grayson Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan

Wizard of the Pigeons by Megan Lindholm

World War Z by Max Brooks

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (reread)

XKCD: What If? by Randall Munroe

Zodiac by Neal Stephenson

Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks