Book description
Ace Lieutenant Dominic Flandry was not a man easily swayed from his
duty to the Empire not, that is, until galactic vice king Leon Ammon
offered him a million-credit bribe, a voluptuous woman called Djana, and
a chance to explore a dark and treasure-laden moon. Yet within the
desolate peaks and valleys of that strange world of ice and shadows,
Flandry found more than he had bargained for. Supposedly barren, the
planet swarmed with a hideous race of strange, inhuman creatures
infernally controlled by a deranged and brilliant computer brain. Each,
like a piece in a bizarre and vicious chess game, was programmed to
kill. And although Flandry did not know it - so was the woman he loved.
Poul Anderson (1926-2001) was born in Pennsylvania of Scandinavian
stock. He started publishing science fiction in 1947 and became one the
great figures in the genre, serving as President of the Science Fiction
Writers of America, winning multiple Hugo and Nebula awards, and was
named a SFWA Grand Master. He collaborated regularly with wife, Karen,
and their daughter is married to noted SF writer Greg Bear. Poul
Anderson died in July 2001.
