If you loved how Kimball Kinnison turns tight corners into opportunities—outwitting Boskone ships, bluffing hard, and making the Galactic Patrol proud—then Miles Vorkosigan’s wild, seat‑of‑the‑pants maneuvers in The Warrior's Apprentice will hit the same sweet spot. Miles cobbles together a mercenary fleet through sheer nerve and quick thinking, careens from one high‑stakes scrape to another, and navigates political minefields with the kind of daring that recalls the Lensman’s most brazen gambits.

You enjoyed watching Kinnison shoulder a clear mandate—hunt Boskone, safeguard spacelanes, and see the job through. Honor Harrington faces a similarly uncompromising assignment in On Basilisk Station: stranded with a single ship on a neglected outpost, she enforces order, digs into suspicious traffic, and uncovers a plot that threatens the balance of power. It’s that same crisp, goal-driven tempo—orders received, obstacles analyzed, and duty carried out against long odds.

If the brisk pace of Patrol vs. Boskone chases, surprise engagements, and daring escapes kept you turning pages, Dauntless delivers nonstop momentum. John “Black Jack” Geary wakes after a century to command a battered fleet, improvising maneuvers and ambushes in a running gauntlet home. The rhythm—constant contact, rapid decisions, and razor’s‑edge battles—echoes the kinetic thrill of those Lensman engagements.

The way Galactic Patrol expands from pirate busts to an existential war with Boskone—and hints at vaster powers—finds a modern counterpart in Pandora’s Star. A triumphant technological feat cracks open a stellar prison and unleashes a threat that forces humanity into a sprawling, multi-front struggle. Expect interstellar conspiracies, big-tech set pieces, and the sense that every victory only reveals a larger board—very much in the spirit of the Patrol’s widening war.

If the inertialess drive, planet-busting beams, and the telepathic Lens gave you that heady rush of superscience, A Fire Upon the Deep turns the dial past eleven. Vinge’s Zones of Thought make physics itself a gradient of possibility, and the awakening of ancient Powers threatens civilizations on a Lensman-sized scale. From mind-to-mind coordination among the Tines to ultratech beyond comprehension, it captures that same sense of tech so advanced it reshapes strategy, society, and the battlefield.