If you are looking for paperback editions of EE 'Doc' Smith's Lensman series, please stop scrolling and see if mine are right for you. You'll be glad you did. Since the Lensman series has gone into the public domain there are a lot of enterprising folks out there taking the manuscripts and generating copies, mainly eBooks for re-sale that are straight out of Project Gutenburg. Well, nothing wrong with that except those who want to enjoy a quality reading experience are probably going to be disappointed. Maybe just use Project Gutenburg. The books are from another era and their context is different. Arguably the best paperback editions were put out by Panther Science Fiction imprint in the early 1970s. You can still acquire those used, although the supply is finite. Mine are worn out. The original books published in limited hardback by Fantasy Press in the 1950's - I've never even seen those. My solution to this problem of diminishing supply has been to go back and put in the work to publish a clean edition. I am working with Ingram Spark because unlike Amazon they can generate POD with groundwood paper - as close as I could get to trade-paperback paper. Which is what I'm after, I want to deliver the authentic paperback experience like the one I had as a kid in the 1970s. More important, I think, has been giving the stories an edit. I have focused mainly on grammar, not with a heavy hand, but just to improve the flow for a contemporary reader. The manuscripts are formatted in such a way as to use a heavy arsenal of punctuation: italics, capitalization, capitalization with italics, exclamations, double and triple exclamations, ellipses, dashes, and more. The purpose was clearly to create emphasis and tension, but often it impedes the flow. So these things were revisited. I considered removing all italics completely at one stage - but relented. It is Space Opera after all. I have provided annotations as a value-add proposition. These ar