Second Stage Lensmen

The Boskonian conspiracy, thought crushed, has unearthed something worse than defeat: a negasphere, a device capable of unmaking worlds. Earth and every colony in the galaxy now hangs on the edge of annihilation. Kimball Kinnison, the legendary Lensman who already saved humanity once, must shepherd four candidates through the brutal second stage of Lensman training, forging them into psychic warriors capable of matching the Boskonian threat. Their untested powers and unbreakable bonds may be all that stands between civilization and total destruction. This is space opera at its foundational best: E.E. "Doc" Smith's universe of telepathic Lensmen, galaxy-spanning civilizations, and weapons that can sterilize suns. The Lensman series essentially invented the genre of planetary adventure science fiction, creating the blueprint that would influence everything from Star Wars to modern military SF. Second Stage Lensmen delivers what the best pulp fiction always has: vast stakes, vivid action, and heroes pushed to the outer limits of human potential.