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CHILDREN OF THE LENS

First serialized in "ASTOUNDING," Nov '47 - Feb '48;
Fist book, Fantasy Press hardbound, 1954

BY E. E. "DOC" SMITH


MESSAGE OF TRANSMITTAL

Subject: The Conclusion of the Boskonian War; A Report:
By: Christopher K. Kinnison, L3, of Klovia:
To: The Entity Able to Obtain and to Read It

To you, the third-level intellect who has been guided to this imperishable
container and
who is able to break the Seal and to read this tape, and to your fellows,
greetings:
For reasons which will become obvious, this report will not be made
available for
an indefinite but very long time; my present visualization of the Cosmic All
does not
extend to the time at which such action will become necessary. Therefore it is
desirable
to review briefly the most pertinent facts of the earlier phases of
Civilization's climactic
conflict: information which, while widely known at present, will probably in
that future
time exist otherwise only in the memories of my descendants.
In early Civilization law enforcement lagged behind crime because the
police
were limited in their spheres of action, while criminals were not. Each
technological
advance made that condition worse until finally, when Bergenholm so perfected
the
crude inertialess space-drive of Rodebush and Cleveland that commerce throughout
the
galaxy became an actuality, crime began to threaten Civilization's very
existence.
Of course it was not then suspected that there was anything organized,
coherent,
or of large purpose about this crime. Centuries were to pass before my father,
Kimball
Kinnison of Tellus, now galactic coordinator, was to prove that Boskonia —an
autocratic, dictatorial culture diametrically opposed to every ideal of
Civilization—was in
fact back of practically all the pernicious activities of the First Galaxy. Even
he, however,
has never had any inkling either of the eons-long conflict between the Arisians
and the