Children of the Lens

This is not a Print-on-Demand, reprint or facsimile book. It is a stated First Edition. It was published with a dust jacket by Fantasy Press, Inc. Reading, PA. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 54-5692. It has a 1954 copyright by Edward E. Smith, Ph.D. and Copyright 1947-1948 in USA and Great Britain by Street and Smith Publications, Inc., for Astounding Science Fiction. Children of the Lens is a science fiction novel. This First Edition in book form by Fantasy Press had 4,874 copies. It is the last book in Smith's Lensman series. The novel was originally serialized in the magazine Astounding beginning in 1947. Children of the Lens is the sixth and final book in the Lensman series. The story takes place twenty years after the close of Second Stage Lensmen, and focuses on the five children of Kimball and Clarissa Kinnison. Edward Elmer Smith (also E. E. Smith, E. E. Smith, Ph.D., E. E. "Doc" Smith, Doc Smith, "Skylark" Smith, or—to his family—Ted; (1890 –1965) was an American food engineer (specializing in doughnut and pastry mixes) and science-fiction author, best known for the Lensman and Skylark series. He is sometimes called the father of space opera.