Book description
For countless years the enigmatic city of Klagan had rested beneath the
racing moons of ancient Mars. Forbidden, guarded, sheltered in the cup
of the Blue Mountains and surrounded by waterless desert. It rested
there, a place of a thousand rumours and whispered fantasies, and gave
birth to muttered tales of incredible wealth and riches. To this city
came Halmar, the guide; Lorna, the dancer from Venus; and the man called
Smith. Defying the ban of the Terran Authorities, the fanatical
Drylanders, and the harsh desert, they reached the crystal walls of the
strange city. There they found a tremendous mystery, the deserted
artefacts of a vanquished civilisation - and found themselves snared in
an incredible trap. For Klagan was more than a city. It was. . . What it
was and how the intrepid adventurers solved the incredible secret of the
mysterious city makes this an exciting tale of science and plausible
speculation, action and human motivations. 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.
