Book description
Earth was programmed for destruction in the mad war of the computer
worlds - unless the Solarians could stop the machines! Three hundred
years ago the Solarians retreated to the safety of their Fortress as
Earth became embroiled in the first of the computer wars with the dread
Duglaari Empire. The Solarians' final word to all humanity was a promise
to reappear one day and bring it to victory. Suddenly, with Earth on the
verge of becoming a helpless victim of the merciless Duglaars, the
Solarians made contact with Fleet Commander Jay Palmer. It was an offer
of aid. But the Solarians' plan was so cunning, so fraught with danger,
that Jay faced the greatest decision of his life - and that of Earth's:
Accept their ingenious strategy as a stroke of genius or reject it as a
trick designed to destroy human life forever. Norman Spinrad (1940 - )
Norman Richard Spinrad was born in New York City in 1941. He began
publishing science fiction in 1963 and has been an important, if
sometimes controversial, figure in the genre ever since. He was a
regular contributor to New Worlds magazine and, ironically, the cause of
its banning by W H Smith, which objected to the violence and profanity
in his serialised novel Bug Jack Barron. Spinrad's work has never shied
away from the confrontational, be it casting Hitler as a spiteful pulp
novelist or satirising the Church of Scientology. In addition to his SF
novels, he has written non-fiction, edited anthologies and contributed a
screenplay to the second season of Star Trek. In 2003, Norman Spinrad
was awarded the Prix Utopia, a life achievement award given by the
Utopiales International Festival in Frances, where he now lives.
