Second-Stage

Nadreck of Palain VII, a frigid-blooded Second-Stage Lensman, with one jewel as a clue, set out to find Lonabar; while Kinnison began to investigate Boskonian activities among the matriarchs.

Children of the Lens Smith, E. E. 1954

Instead, they insisted upon "intruding", as she considered it, upon Lensmen; preferably upon Second-Stage Lensmen, if any one of the four chanced to be anywhere within reach.

Children of the Lens Smith, E. E. 1954

The story as we have arranged it is that Floor was the top, and-which happens to be the truth'that it was destroyed through the efforts of the Second-Stage Lensmen.

Children of the Lens Smith, E. E. 1954

Second-Stage Lensman Tregonsee of Rigel IV did not rush madly out into space in quest of something or anything Boskonian in response to Kinnison's call.

Children of the Lens Smith, E. E. 1954

While it is nothing like anything I ever felt before, I still think it must be an Overlord'maybe a sort of second-stage Overlord, just as you and I are Second-Stage Lensmen.

Children of the Lens Smith, E. E. 1954

On the other hand, Kimball Kinnison was a Second-Stage Lensman of the Galactic Patrol.

Children of the Lens Smith, E. E. 1954

Then I asked our Second-Stage Lensmen"Worsel, Nadreck, and Tregonsee" to drop whatever they were doing and solve it for me.

Children of the Lens Smith, E. E. 1954

Instead, it was the Red Lensman; a full-powered Second-Stage Lensman who had finally decided that, since appeals to reason, logic, and common sense had no perceptible effect upon this stiff-necked near-woman, the time had come to bear down.

Children of the Lens Smith, E. E. 1954

The Second-Stage Lensman had learned that no being-except possibly an Arisian-could narrow a beam of thought down to one single, pure sequence.

Children of the Lens Smith, E. E. 1954

Although none of the Eddorians knew it, their pessimism in regard to the ability of the Ploorans to defend their planet against the assaults of Second-Stage Lensmen was even then being justified.

Children of the Lens Smith, E. E. 1954