Book description
The Great Tyrant rules the solar system with absolute terror. Only one
man dares to fight back. The time is the 24th century. Humankind
populates the entire solar system from icy Pluto to boiling Mercury.
Great domed cities, humming factories, hordes of workers, all feed the
power of the dictatorship that controls all life. Only a small group
among the cowed population dares rebel in a struggle that pits democracy
against tyranny. But there is a third force at work as well. A
mysterious band of assassins whose final solution to the problem of
humanity's fate is as terrifying as it is irresistibleone of them is
known as the AGENT OF CHAOS. 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.
