Book description
Nobody beats Bar Holliday.
He was paid to find the Terraformable worlds, new planets for his
corporation to plunder. Up until the day he came upon Peace Victory
, an abandoned generation ship hovering ominously above a definitely
habitable planet, he believed nobody ever could.
Nobody
beats Bar Holliday.
...because he was never satisfied with anything lower than first place,
because he was always the oddball, in charge of his own welfare, his own
destiny...a man determined to make his mark in the world and win games
at any cost.
NOBODY EVERY BEATS BAR HOLLIDAY.
...because he only took the wrong chances at the right times. But on
the planet Patmos, where everything looked safe, but nothing was, Bar
Holliday had at last met his match! Jack L. Chalker (1944 - 2005)
Jack Laurence Chalker was born in Baltimore, in 1944. He received an
MLA from Johns Hopkins University and taught history and geography for
over a decade before becoming a professional writer in 1978. He was
active in the fan community from his teens and though he published work
as an editor and critic, it is for his fiction that he is best known. He
was a prolific author, writing across genres successfully, and was
nominated for the Hugo and John W. Campbell New Writer awards, among
others. His major work is The Well of Souls sequence, comprising ten
books across two series, and featuring the 'godgame' narrative device
that was his signature. He died in February, 2005.
