Book description
PILLAR OF FIRE Millions of Years before humanity and other intelligent
races learned to roam the Milky Way, the Zheltyana had created an empire
among the stars - rose, triumphed, and vanished. All that remained were
a few ruins, some artifacts, and the knowledge that their powerful
scientific secrets awaited rediscovery. One such secret had been found
on the feudal planet Naxos, under the tyranny of the half-mad Idalia
Ancanette. Her scientists had tapped its mystery to create a pillar of
energy which promised to make Idalia mistress of a hundred worlds - if
it did not destroy Naxos before it could be harnessed. Such an event
called for the attention of Earth's master agent, Cap Kennedy, and his
scientific crew. Because that column of atomic fire was a beacon that
could herald a millennium or end in A WORLD AFLAME. 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.
