Book description
Allyn Vage was once a beautiful woman, but due to an accident - which
may have been a murder attempt - she was now a hopeless cripple, burned
and disfigured and without the senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste
and touch. When they brought her to Jome Knard, that noted physician had
no choice but to employ a certain apparently miraculous device,
incomprehensible even to him, to keep her immobile body alive and to
restore and regulate her sensory perception. This strange machine had
been imported from a seemingly primitive people on the world of
Akkilmar. They had allowed it to be exported, but there was something
about it they couldn't - or wouldn't - explain. Little did either the
doctor or his patient realize that between them they had now become the
lever that could topple a world! (First publshed 1961) John Brunner
(1934-1995) was a prolific British SF writer. In 1951, he published his
first novel, Galactic Storm, at the age of just 17, and went on to write
dozens of novels under his own and various house names until his death
in 1995 at the Glasgow Worldcon. He won the Hugo Award and the British
Science Fiction Award for Stand on Zanzibar (a regular contender for the
'best SF novel of all time') and the British Science Fiction Award for
The Jagged Orbit.
