Book description
The man in black picked up something which had been leaning beside him.
A ring perhaps two feet wide . . . yet when the man in black laid it
down on the floor it was as large as he was tall. The light went out. A
bluish glow now emanated from the ring, revealing Bryda's face ghastly
gray as she leaned forward, and Yarco's also, set and serious, and the
conjurer's impassive. And within the ring, where moments before there
had been the bare planks of the floor, a shape that moved, and opened
eyes glowing like coals, and spoke. 'What world is this?' the awful
voice inquired. (First published 1962) 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.
