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"Backstage Lensman" is a short story by
Randall Garrett Gordon Randall Phillip David GarrettGarrett, Randall
in ''
Lensman The ''Lensman'' series is a series of science fiction novels by American author E. E. "Doc" Smith. It was a runner-up for the 1966 Hugo Award for Best All-Time Series, losing to the ''Foundation'' series by Isaac Asimov. Plot The series begi ...
series of E.E. 'Doc' Smith. It was first written in 1949, lost and then rewritten in 1978. Garrett claimed that "Doc read the first version of 'Backstage Lensman' and laughed all through the convention. It was his suggestion that I call the spaceship ''Dentless'' rather than ''Dauntless''."


Publication history

This story appeared in: * The magazine ''
Analog Analog or analogue may refer to: Computing and electronics * Analog signal, in which information is encoded in a continuous variable ** Analog device, an apparatus that operates on analog signals *** Analog electronics, circuits which use analog ...
'', June 1978 * ''Takeoff'', a collection of short fiction and poems by Randall Garrett, 1980 * ''Shaggy B.E.M. Stories'', an anthology edited by Mike Resnick, 1988


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* 1978 short stories 1970s science fiction short stories Parodies of literature Lensman series Short stories by Randall Garrett Works originally published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact {{1970s-sf-story-stub