Book description
Leon Vardis' whole life was keyed to revenge. If it couldn't be wreaked
on the peasants who had burned his mother as a witch on the primitive
planet of Rhome, then it could, most gloriously could, be let loose on
the contemptuous sophisticates who rescued him from certain death, toyed
with him for their own amusement and then, uncaring, cast him aside on
the metropolitan planet of Joslen. But first his apprenticeship - as
peasant farmer on Pharos, as space mercenary on more planets then you'd
care to name. Then independence, as a stellar trader. And at last an
opportunity to act as Fate, slowly, and with ironically sophisticated
enjoyment, For in the hypnotic jewels of far Shergol lay the seeds of a
truly cosmic vengeance. Leon's saga was complete. The ultimate leveller
had been unleashed on the galaxy. 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.
