Book description
The far-flung fingers of Earth's civilisation touched many corners of
the galaxy, and among them was the beautiful planet Yan. Here the
colonists lived a peaceful, almost idyllic life, amid ancient and secret
relics, co-existing with their strange and compatible neighbours. The
arrival of Gregory Chart, the greatest dramatist ever, whose productions
were played out in the skies, and whose actors were also the audience,
could only disrupt and destroy once the Yanfolk were aroused from their
dreaming indifference . . . (First published 1972) 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.
