"E. E. Doc Smith - Lensman 6 - Children Of The Lens" - читать интересную книгу автора (Smith E. E. Doc)

acquainted with Surgeon-Marshal Lacy and with Sector Chief Nurse Clarrissa
MacDougall, who was later to become the widely-known "Red" Lensman and, still
later,
my mother.
In spite of the military defeat, however, Boskonia's real organization
remained
intact, and Kinnison's further search led into Lundmark's Nebula, thenceforth
called the
Second Galaxy. The planet Medon, being attacked by Boskonians, was rescued from
the enemy and was moved across inter-galactic space to the First Galaxy. Medon
made
two notable contributions to Civilization: first, electrical insulation,
conductors, and
switches by whose means voltages and amperages theretofore undreamed-of could be
handled; and later Phillips, a Posenian surgeon, was able there to complete the
researches which made it possible for human bodies to grow anew lost members or
organs.
Kinnison, deciding that the drug syndicate was the quickest and surest line
to
Boskone, became Wild Bill Williams the meteor-miner; a hard-drinking, bentlam-
eating,
fast-shooting space-hellion. As Williams he traced the zwilnik line upward, step
by step,
to the planet Jarnevon in the Second Galaxy. Upon Jarnevon lived the Eich;
frigid-
blooded monsters more intelligent, more merciless, more truly Boskonian even
than the
Overlords.
He and Worsel, second-stage Lensmen both, set out to investigate Jarnevon.
He
was captured, tortured, dismembered; but Worsel brought him back to Tellus with
his
mind and knowledge intact—the enormously important knowledge that Jarnevon was
ruled by a council of nine of the Eich, a council named Boskone.
Kinnison was given a Phillips treatment, and again Clarrissa MacDougall
nursed
him back to health. They loved each other, but they could not marry until the
Gray
Lensman's job was done; until Civilization had triumphed over Boskonia.
The Galactic Patrol assembled its Grand Fleet, composed of millions of
units,
under the flagship Z9M9Z. It attacked. The planet of Jalte, Boskonia's director
of the
First Galaxy, was consumed by a bomb of negative matter. Jarnevon was crushed
between two colliding planets; positioned inertialess, then inerted especially
for that
crushing. Grand Fleet returned, triumphant.
But Boskonia struck back, sending an immense fleet against Tellus through a
hyper-spatial tube instead of through normal space. This method of approach was
not,