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From: Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Reactor] Five Formidable Female Characters From Classic SF
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On 10/28/24 5:19 PM, Michael F. Stemper wrote:
> On 23/10/2024 19.05, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
> 
>> Quoting from Wikepedia:
>> Clarissa MacDougall. She is a beautiful, curvaceous, red-haired nurse, 
>> who eventually becomes the first human female to receive her own Lens. 
>> Their children, a boy and two pairs of fraternal twin sisters, grow up 
>> to be the five Children of the Lens. In their breeding, "almost every 
>> strain of weakness in humanity is finally removed". They are born 
>> already possessing the powers taught to second-stage Lensmen.
> 
> Could you provide a specific page? I'd like to edit it to fix (at least)
> the way that Clarrissa's name was spelled in the books. I'm also skeptical
> of the idea that Kay/Kat and Cam/Con were fraternal rather than identical.
> 

Here you go:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lensman_series

The info above is in a paragraph in the "Plot" section that starts with 
the phrase "As the breeding program nears its conclusion ...", about 5 
paragraphs before the start of the "Publication History" section.

There's also similar (and additional) info about the children at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_the_Lens_(novel)

Tony