David A. Kyle

From the back cover: An assassin's attack has nearly killed Second Stage Lensman Tregonsee, the brilliant telepathic intelligence chief of the Galactic Patrol. Their forces in disarray, the Rigellian super-brain and a rookie Tellurian Patrolman named D. D. Cloudd plan a desperate shell game to avert intergalactic devastation.

In the Arena, 1963, Brian W. Aldiss The Billiard Ball, 1967, Isaac Asimov The Time-Tombs, 1963, J. G. Ballard "Die, Shadow!", 1963, Algis Budrys The Foundling Stars, 1966, Hal Clement Toys for Debbie, 1965, David A. Kyle Forest in the Sky, [Retief], 1967, Keith Laumer At the Core, [Known Space], 1966, Larry Niven Under Two Moons, 1965, Frederik Pohl Masque of the Red Shift, [Berserker], 1965, Fred Saberhagen

From back cover Bantam paperback October 1983: Worsel, the fearless Second Stage Dragon Lensman of Velantia III, was faced with the deadliest challenge of his distinguished career -- a machine rebellion on the Planetoid of Knowledge. Not even the great Kimball Kinnison himself could save Worsel from this robotic conspiracy, fostered by the treacherous Spawn of Boskonia.