Book description
'Earth is real,' Dumarest insisted. 'A world old and scarred by ancient
wars. The stars are few and there is a great single moon which hangs
like a pale sun in the night sky.' In the quest for his legendary
birthplace, Earl Dumarest has traversed galaxies. Now, at least, he
reaches Ourelle, a planet close to Earth - out along a far arm of the
Milky Way. There he finds Jondelle, a boy who may hold the key to Earl's
search. But then Jondelle is kidnapped. And Dumarest's pursuit of the
imperilled boy leads him to a city of paranoiac killers - madmen whose
terrible violence is always on a hair-trigger! (First published 1973)
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.
