Homages and Parodies
With Smith's knowledge, the parody "Backstage Lensman" was written by Randall Garrett in 1949.
Garrett also referred to the Lensmen in his Lord Darcy stories, in which similar lenses are the badges of the King's Messengers, invented by the wizard Sir Edward Elmer (a reference to Smith himself).
In the DC Comics universe, the Green Lantern Corps bears many parallels to the Lensmen, although its principal creators deny any connection (later creators, however, would introduce Green Lanterns named Arisia and Eddore as an homage).
The GURPS role-playing game includes a source book describing how to conduct a role-playing campaign set in the Lensman universe.
The Lensmen also put in a brief appearance in Robert A Heinlein's Number Of the Beast as the primary characters from that novel pass through the Lensmen's universe in their wandering travels.
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“The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)