《Second stage Lensman 》作者：- Edward Elmer Smith【EPUB】

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First serialized in quotASTOUNDINGquot Nov 41 - Feb 42 ?????????????????????? Fist book Fantasy Press hardbound 1953 ?? ??BY E. E. quotDOCquot SMITH ?? FOREWORD ?? ???????? A couple of billion years ago when the first and Second Galaxies were passing through each other and when myriads of planets were coming into being where only a handful had existed before two races of beings were already ancient. Each had become independent of the chance formation of planets upon which to live. Each had won a large measure of power over its environment the Arisians by force of mind alone the Eddorians by employing both mind and mechanism. ???????? The Arisians were native to this our normal space-time continuum. They had lived in it since the unthinkably remote time of their origin. The original Arisia was very much like Earth. Thus all our normal space was permeated by Arisian life-spores and thus upon all Earth-like planets there came into being races more or less like what the Arisians had been in the days of their racial youth. ???????? The Eddorians on the other hand were interlopers. They came to our space- time continuum from some horribly different plenum. For eons they had been exploring the Macrocosmic All moving their planets from plenum to plenum seeking that which at last they found—one in which there were enough planets soon to be inhabited by intelligent life to sate even the Eddorian lust for dominance. Here in our own universe they would stay and here supreme they would rule. ???????? The Elders of Arisia however the ablest thinkers of the race had known of and had studied the Eddorians for many cycles of time. Their integrated Visualization of the Cosmic All showed what was to happen. No more than the Arisians themselves could the Eddorians be slain by any physical means nor could the Arisians unaided kill all the invaders by mental force. Eddores All-Highest and his Innermost Circle in their ultrashielded citadel could be destroyed only by a mental bolt of such nature and magnitude that its generator which was to become known as the Galactic Patrol would require several long Arisian lifetimes for its building. ???????? Nor would that building be easy. The Eddorians must be kept in ignorance both of Arisia and of the proposed generator until too late to