Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 11:09:13 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Old School
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> omni at omniphile.com 3/31/2005 10:15:10 AM >>>
>At 01:30 AM 3/31/05 EST, MarkLFischer at aol.com wrote:
>>In a message dated 3/30/2005 11:59:04 PM Eastern Standard
>Time,
>>omni at omniphile.com writes:
>>
>>>the Lensman series was 5 if my memory at this hour is  still
>>>working.
>>
>>There are six:
>
>Ok, memory refresh failed...but was close. ;-)
>
>>And a seventh, if you consider "Masters of the Vortex" part of the
>series.
>>It's set in the same universe, but is otherwise unrelated.

Smith wrote the stories sort asa favor to F. Orlin Tremiane, who first
published him in Astounding.  Tremaine left ASF and started working on
another magaine: Comet.  And.... well, here read all about it:
http://www.outel.org/decomposed/goe/LFQ3.html

mjw