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Z-LENSMAN

An Astonishing New Adventure in the
Lensman Series
Created By E.E. "Doc" Smith

By David A. Kyle



Foreword

The genus Homo sapiens belongs to the family of Arisia. Human beings, together
with all
their related humanoid races, were the fruit of Arisian seed, and they lived,
along with their
bizarre cousins and exotic kindred, among the millions of planets throughout
the island
universe known as our Milky Way galaxy.
Within our, space and time, the ancient Arisians were the genesis of all
intelligent life.
Where or how they began at the dawn of the Cosmos not even their records could
tell for
certain. Their home was the planet that must have been the very first upon
which life
formed. For eons, as the Arisians progressed beyond the stages of mechanics
and
technology and evolved from entities of flesh into entities of energy, they
prospered alone
and unthreatened. When their first mother sun grew old and died, they moved
their planet
to a bright, new star, until, as the eons rolled on, they had to move again.
All that time, in the
vastness of interstellar matter, they were alone.
Then came the time of the Coalescence, when the Milky Way and Lundmark's
Nebula
passed through each other, edge to edge, and billions of new planets were
born. With this
marvelous explosion of new opportunities came a sinister shadow of the
ultimate terror,
Eddore. This was another planet with another race from another existence. As
good and
Godlike as were the Arisians, so evil and Devilish were the Eddorians.
Thus began the ages-old conflict that led to the formation of the mighty
Arisian weapon, the
Galactic Patrol. On the countless new planets flourished galactic multitudes,
a thousand
million years younger than their ancestors. Slowly but relentlessly they
climbed out of the
primordial elements into, Civilization and toward perfectionism. Serving as