Addendum

Obviously there would be a "Lens" command always available. The player would have no idea what it would do in any given situation. Just like the author!

Adaptation Corner

What's the best video game genre for Lensman? Probably one of those Japanese adventure games in which you pick from Talk, Look, Think, Call, and Investigate over and over till something happens.

Nintendo Direct: Tragedy?

I dunno fellas, I think Decapolice might be done for.

Hellish Topography

I know I'm not the only one who thinks about Hades all the time, more every year, but please remember the land of the dead doesn't have to be underground. Towers, valleys, mountain ranges, and the moon are all possible sites, to say nothing of inside a gem held by a wizard who's actually an alien scientist who compressed that realm so as to study it better.

Ergonomic Codex Design

Here we are in the year of our Lord 3824 (I didn't check) and we're still using rectangular books. Shouldn't they at least have a handle even if we won't go so far as to have a curved design so that there's room at the upper left to be grabbed while there's space where your heel will be? Also, is there another term for the part of your hand continuing from your thumb that makes a valley of your palm? I looked around a little bit but didn't find one.

An Inquisition Intolerable

The adventurer stepped down to the floor, checked his map, and made an addition. On it was proof, to those who understood, of the challenges behind him. There was not a room or passage recorded there which had not some danger from an arsenal of traps, sentinels, and possessive spirits.
Even crossing the entrance was a triumph never before achieved in all the centuries over which the bold, curious, and greedy sought hints to the location of the fabled vault sunk in the earth by a king of whom nothing still was known save for the wondrousness of his possessions. How deep the vault went and what was its extent, none knew, but he presumed when he entered a chamber with no other exit in any direction that he had reached the ultimate point.
A jumble of materials in the center stirred and coalesced into a great face which began to speak.
"The final trial for the seeker of my master's treasure is a riddle. Listen well, for but once will I ask it."
"A riddle? Never mind."
The adventurer ascended forthwith, reversed his journey, and sold his maps to someone willing to put up with that sort of nonsense.
Finis

Addendum

And don't feel forced to include, for instance, goats just because somebody mentions the year of the goat. That can be another tantalizing mystery.

Take the Easy Way Out

You want to include astrological matters in your fantasy story but aren't sure about coming up with your own constellations, processions, retrogradery, interpretations, and so on? Don't! Just use ours! Let readers debate whether that means it's post-apocalyptic. They love debating.

Rethinking Scale

You know how there were those dudes over in Greece that had a hundred hands? Contemplate this: They weren't big guys, their hands were just tiny. Good for needlework.

Addendum

Their relationship with dream mages is that they're always pranking them, naturally.