Book description
The Ruml were highly intelligent creatures. They had an elaborate
civilisation, advanced technology and a strict moral social code - moral
according to their values They had already over-run six worlds,
exterminated the native life and colonised the planets But an ordinary
citizen of Earth, Jason Barchar, was able to penetrate the mind, think
the thoughts, see the sights, feel the sensations of one of the Ruml.
And on Jason depended the fate of the world - for the Ruml were
preparing to invade Earth Gordon R. Dickson (1923 - 2001) Gordon
Rupert Dickson was born in Alberta, Canada, in 1923 but resided in the
United States from the age of thirteen. Along with Robert A. Heinlein,
he is regarded as one of the fathers of military space opera, his
Dorsai! sequence being an early exemplar of both military SF and Future
History. Dickson was one of the rare breed of authors as well known for
his fantasy as his SF - The Dragon and the George, the first novel in
his Dragon Knight sequence, was shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award
and won the British Fantasy Award. Dickson's work also won him three
Hugos and Nebula. He died in 2001.
