Book description
QUARANTINED PLANET "On Dephene, the native life -form is peculiar
and unique. All protoplasmic life is equal to and one with the
mimics." On screen, the shape changed, altered into the shape of a
man. Then it changed. It shrank, dropped, lifted a snouted head in the
semblance of a dog. It grew, spread wings and became a large bird which
hopped and pecked. The wings vanished and a tall and lovely woman smiled
from where the bird had halted. A dozen changes, a score until the mind
reeled. "These Mimics represent a threat to every world in the
entire galaxy. Their power of mimicry would enable them to adopt the
outward form of rulers and high officials. A man could never be certain
that his companion was what he seemed to be." When Kennedy went to
Delphene the speculation became pure nightmare, for both he and his crew
were being duplicated over and over - and so was the worlds-conqueror he
sought to block. 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.
