Book description
THE VAULT IN THE VALLEY On a far semi-desert world, shunned by trade
routes, and unattractive to star travellers, there is a barren and
isolated valley. Dominating this valley is a great time-eroded
Sphinx-like construction - a mass known to the few who have looked upon
it as the Skull of Sykoris. Cap Kennedy followed a dangerous trail
across many worlds - a trail of murder, duels, and evil - to find that
it ended there, before the Skull, confronting a mystery older than all
mankind. Beneath that Sphinx lay something desired by Earth's old
enemies. Beneath it lay something that lured the criminal minds of many
worlds. But what it was none knew - until Cap Kennedy himself released
the frightful power of the Eater of Worlds. 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.
