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"Doc" Smith's original Lensman series will be reprinted!Michael J. Walsh has received a contract from the "Doc" Smith Estate granting him reprint rights to the six Lensman books. He will use the Fantasy Press text and jacket art – very retro, very cool. Any collectors who want a nice set of the Lensman books could facilitate his project by getting in on the ground floor and pre-paying. Wouldn't you be willing to write a check for less than a hundred credits to have a nice, uniform, trade paperback set, produced with loving attention to detail by a long-time fan who will be using good materials to make books your great-grand-children can sell for a bundle when they get short of cash? The series will be issued one book per month, beginning with Triplanetary in January 1997 at the Boston convention named "Arisia," continuing through First Lensman in February at "Boscone," and concluding with Children of the Lens in June. The cost is $15 a book, and $10 for the fancy box to hold them all. If you order them separately, shipping is $5 per item, but if you order the entire set, shipping is waived, so the total is $100. (Add Maryland state tax if you are a resident.) The set will be shipped one volume at a time as it is printed. Order from: Old Earth Books The only other boxed set of Lensman books was published by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach, a long-time fan, writer and publisher, who founded Fantasy Press. In 1956, they ran off 75 leatherbound, boxed sets, which only rarely appear on the collectors' book market today, usually offered at prices in the thousands of dollars. Write to Michael J. Walsh for further details.
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