Book description
She appeared in our world naked, defenceless, unable to say a word
anyone could understand. Her origin was at first simply a puzzle, then a
scientific enigma, and finally a series of terrifying surmises that her
most fascinated investigator was afraid to probe. But probe he must, for
somehow he knew that this strange girl was a key to the kind of
information science had sought for centuries. But the more he uncovered
from the depths of her mind, the deeper became the quicksand into which
his own was sinking. (First published 1967) 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.
