"David A. Kyle - Lensman 10 - Z- Lensman" - читать интересную книгу автора (Kyle David A)

Bovreck was the ancestor of Nadreck.
Nadreck, later to become the only Second Stage Lensman in the history of
Palain, has
always seemed a baling and inexplicable creature. Very little has heretofore,
been told of
his background and personal life, primarily because he is overwhelmingly a
Z-type in the
Historian Smith twelve digit classification system.
This historical adventure, out of the files of the Galactic Patrol, is not a
biography of
Nadreck; the Z-Lensman from Palain VII, but the, reporting of these events
does cast a
great deal of light upon who Nadreck really was-and why he was that way.

David A. Kyle Tellus
 Prologue

Eukonidor, the youthful Watcher from Arisia, had turned back the brazen
attempt to invade
Arisia by the mighty First and Eighth councilors of the Eich. He had changed
the course of
their mammoth torpedo so that, in a sweeping circle, it had returned to slam
directly into
the great cruiser of those foremost Eich leaders.
The worst was yet to come.
Far, far away, in the Second Galaxy, was Jarnevon, the home planet of the
Eich, and it was
soon to be the scene of one of the most titanic space battles in -the history
of Civilization,
personally directed by the Tellurian Lensman Kimball Kinnison. The victory
that was to
come-an absolutely crucial one for the Galactic Patrol would bring about the
utter
destruction of the Eich planet, crushed between the nutcracker of two guided
worlds
colliding.
But, as a Watcher, Eukonidor had discovered another plot, one in which the
Eich could
have a victory that would be nearly as great for Boskonia as the battle of
Jarnevon would
be for Arisian Civilization. This plot was developing in the Palainian system,
the system
least integrated into the plans of the Galactic Council and the most
vulnerable-as Palain
was a Z-type planet to the designs of blackguard Z-type relations in other
parts of the
universe. Of those scheming monstrosities, the worst by far, of course, were
the servile
followers of the Eich high in the councils of Boskonia.
The plot had evolved out of the defeat of the notorious villain, Gray Roger,