Book description
All Verrill wanted to do was to get to Mars, to Port Mercham where a
ship was getting ready to take the Big Jump to the stars. But he was
stranded on Venus, without money, papers, or weapons, with nothing but a
keep-sake between him and starvation and the revengeful fury of the
powerful Brotherhoods - and charity was a forgotten word. How, with
foreign papers, he fought and won the right to a berth, discovered a
subtle plot to smuggle narcotics and defeated a mutiny. How he fought a
desperate battle with the menace of the Sun and escaped from Mercury,
and how, at last, he managed to reach his objective, make a story of
high adventure. This is a fast-moving, hard-hitting tale of the future,
of rocket ships and the men who guide them across the wastes of space,
of the perils and dangers waiting at every turn. A story which paints
bright colours across the pages of unwritten history, and brings to life
the lives of those yet unborn. 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.
