FIRST LENSMAN, the 2nd book in the old space opera by author Edward E."Doc" Smith.
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Universal & Imagine Eyeing LENSMAN Classics
By: Jarrod Sarafin, News EditorDate: Friday, January 11, 2008
Source: Sci-Fi Wire
Looks like one of the "founders" of space operas may be hitting a theater near you sometime in the future. Sci-Fi Wire is reporting that Universal & Imagine have entered negotiations with the estate of legendary SF author E.E. "Doc" Smith, the man behind the LENSMAN space series from the 1930s. This series, first published in the Amazing Stories magazine, was a primary influence with a lot of today's authors and filmmakers. Al Trestrail, Smith's grandson and manager of his estate, is the one who let the word out...
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