Written by E.E. 'Doc' Smith - Audio book performed by Reed McColm - Unabridged Fiction - RETAIL EDITION COMPACT DISCS - 11 hours Publisher, Books in Motion NOTE: Books In Motion RETAIL EDITIONS are packaged in attractive, simple compact, plastic album design with full-color cover artwork. Children of the Lens is the sixth and concluding volume of the six classic “Lensman” books, long recognized as the greatest space opera ever written. “Twenty years have passed since the events portrayed in Second Stage Lensman. To Kimball Kinnison and his wife Clarrissa have been born five children Kit, the eldest, and two sets of twin sisters. These are the 'Children of the Lens' the offspring of uncounted generations of selected matings. The most capable, the most brilliant minds in the universe. Their job is the conclusion of the Boskonian war, and how they accomplish this end and gain ultimate victory makes up the greater part of the book.” (From the 1954 Fantasy Press edition of Children of the Lens.) About the Author: Edward Elmer 'Doc' Smith, Ph.D., was born in 1890 in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. In his life he tried his hand at many occupations, including lumberjack, farmer, railroad worker, hard rock miner, food chemist, explosives engineer and writer. He is known as the father of the Space Opera genre. About the Performer: REED McCOLM is an actor and writer living in the Pacific Northwest He is the author of the award-winning plays TOGETHER AGAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME and the 9/11 drama HOLE IN THE SKY. |
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