Book description
Scar: a harsh, inhospitable world with a vicious and shifting
population of prospectors, drawn from every corner of the galaxy by
rumours of a miraculous golden spore. To this violent planet come two
more travellers, ready to try their luck among its lethal jungles: the
cruel, mocking Lord of Jest - and Dumarest, driven by destiny on his
endless search for Lost Earth . . . (First published 1970) Edwin
Charles Tubb was born in London in 1919, and was a prolific author of
SF, fantasy and western novels, under his own name and a number of
pseudonyms. He wrote hundreds of short stories and novellas for the SF
magazines of the 50's, including the long-running Galaxy Science
Fiction, and was a founding member of the British Science Fiction
Association. He died in 2010.
