COSMIC CONFLICT
In Triplanetary, battle is joined for the control of the universe. The Arisians, benevolent humanoids who have declared themselves Guardians of Civilization, war with the Eddoreans, shapeless, malevolent beings, hungry for power at any price. They fight on both physical and mental levels, wielding weaponry of inconceivable destructiveness.

And their battleground is a tiny planet in a remote galaxy: Earth. The swamping of Atlantis, the fall of Rome, the wars that rack the world and blaze through space - all may seem historical accidents to the men involved, but each in reality is a move in a savage universe-wide power struggle...

Triplanetary is the first volume in the famous Lensman series of novels, an epic saga of galactic adventures on the same magnificent scale as Isaac Asimov's classic FOUNDATION trilogy. Watch out for each Lensman novel as it appears in Panther Science Fiction.

Published in 1972 by Panther Books Limited
Reprinted 1972, 1973 (three times)
First published in Great Britain by W.H.Allen & Co Ltd 1971
© Edward E Smith PhD 1948, 1971

SECRET PLANET
No human being had ever landed on the hidden planet of Arisia. A mysterious barrier, hanging unseen in space, turned back all ships. Then the word came to Earth, inexplicably but compellingly: 'GO TO ARISIA!'

Virgil Samms, founder of the Galactic Patrol, went - and came back with the Lens, the strange device that gave its wearer powers no man had ever possessed before. Samms knew that the price of this power would be high. But even he had no idea of the ultimate cost - nor of the strange destiny awaiting the First Lensman...

First Lensman is the second novel in the classic Lensman series, a galaxy-spanning saga of space adventure and one of the all-time classics of science fiction. Watch out for each new Lensman title as it appears in Panther Science Fiction.

Published in 1972 by Panther Books Limited
Reprinted 1972, 1973 (three times)
First published in Great Britain by W.H.Allen & Co Ltd 1971
© Edward E Smith PhD 1950, 1971