Book description
Kynance Foy was young, beautiful, intelligent an highly trained in both
qua-space physics and business law when she left Earth to seek her
fortune in the interstellar outworlds. But she found that the further
she got from Earth, the tougher became the competition from the
environment-hardened populations of these young worlds . . . and by the
time she reached the planet Nefertiti, she was facing poverty. Then,
unexpectedly, a wonderful opportunity opened up for her: the job of
Planetary Supervisor of the fabulously wealthy world called Zygra, where
exotic pelts costing a million credits each were grown. The salary was
huge, and at the end of the year's tour of duty she would be transported
free of charge back to Earth, where she would be a very wealthy young
woman. There had to be a catch to it, she thought as she signed the
contract. And, of course, there was. (First published 1966) 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.
