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1、GRAYLENSMANserializedin"ASTOUNDING,"Oct'39-Jan'40;Firstbook,FantasyPresshardbound,1951;BYE.E.“DOC”SMITHFOREWORDTwothousandmillionorsoyearsago,atthetimeoftheCoalescence,whentheFirstandSecondGalaxieswerepassingthrougheachotherandwhenmyriadsofplanetswerecomingintoexist
2、encewhereonlyahandfulhadexistedbefore,tworacesofbeingswerealreadyold;sooldthateachhadbehinditmanymillionsofyearsofrecordedhistory.Bothweresooldthateachhadperforcebecomeindependentofthechanceformationofplanetsuponwhichtolive.Eachhad,initsownway,gainedameasureofcontro
3、loveritsenvironment;theArisiansbypowerofmindalone,theEddoriansbyemployingbothmindandmechanism.TheArisianswereindigenoustothis,ournormalspace-timecontinuum;theyhadlivedinitsincetheunthinkablyremotetimeoftheirorigin;andtheoriginalArisiawasveryEarth-likeinmass,composit
4、ion,size,atmosphere,andclimate.ThusallnormalspacewaspermeatedbyArisianlife-spores,andthusuponallEarth-likeorTellurianplanetstherecameintobeingracesofcreaturesmoreorlessresemblingArisiansinthedaysoftheirracialyouth.NoneexceptTelluriansareHomoSapiens,ofcourse;fewcanac
5、tuallybeplacedinGenusHomo;butmanymillionsofplanetsarepeopledbyracesdistantlyrecognizableorbelongingtothegreatclassofMAN.TheEddorians,ontheotherhand,wereinterlopers—intruders.Theywerenotnativetoournormalspace-timesystem,butcametoitfromsomeother,somealienandhorriblydi
6、fferentother,plenum.Foreons,infact,theyhadbeenexploringthemacrocosmicAll;movingtheirplanetsfromcontinuumtocontinuum;seekingthatwhichatlasttheyfound—aspaceandatimeinwhichtherewereenoughplanets,soontobeinhabitedbyintelligentlife,tosateeventheEddorianlustfordominance.H
7、ere,inourownspace-time,theywouldstay;andheresupremetheywouldrule.TheEldersofArisia,however,theablestthinkersoftherace,hadknownandhadstudiedtheEddoriansformanycyclesoftime.TheirintegratedVisualizationoftheCosmicAllshowedwhatwastohappen.NomorethantheArisiansthemselves
8、couldtheEddoriansbeslainbyanyphysicalmeans,howeverapplied;norcouldtheArisians,unaided,killalloftheinvadersbymentalforce.Eddore'sAll-Highes
