Book description
Travel at light speeds is common, and Earth - the first in the universe
to discover it - now reigns over many worlds. But in order to rule
effectively, Captain Robin Weinbaum, head of Security, needs an
extremely advanced communications system. He gets it with the Dirac
transmitter, the first machine capable of sending instantaneous messages
anywhere in the universe. The only problem is that someone called J.
Shelby Stevens has a machine that can do the impossible - tap the
transmissions before they are even made! It is Weinbaum's job to find
Stevens. And unless he does, time will be abolished and the universe
closed to Earth forever . . . James Blish (1921-75) studied
microbiology at Rutgers and then served as a medical laboratory
technician in the US army during the Second World War. Among his best
known books are Cities in Flight, A Case of Conscience, for which he won
the Hugo in 1959 for Best Novel, Doctor Mirabilis, Black Easter and The
Day After Judgement.
