Book description
The Corps Galactica, the Galaxy's police force, had pledged itself to a
policy of non-interference with the backward Zarathustra Refugee
Planets. Langenschmidt, the Corps chief on the planet Cyclops, was
content with this ruling. After all, if the refugee planets could form
their own civilizations from scratch, logically they would come up with
cultures suited to their own needs. However, when the case of Justin
Kolb came to his attention, Langenschniidt was forced to rethink the
problem. Kolb's accident with the wolfshark revealed to the Corps'
medicos the leg-graft that had been performed on him. It was a perfect
match - only its gene-pattern wasn't Cyclopean, and limb-grafting wasn't
practised on Cyclops. Where had the leg come from, who had been the
unknown repairmen, and wasn't this something that might be violating
galactic law? (First published 1965) 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.
