Book description
Bart Fraden came looking for a planet to conquer - and found the
hell-hole of the galaxy Sangre - the killer planet. For three centuries
Sangre had been dominated by the sadistic Brotherhood of Pain, a
priesthood dedicated to torture, slavery and cannibalism. Bart sensed
the kind of revolutionary potential that he could manipulate to make
himself ultimate ruler. But he hadn't counted on the apathy of a people
bred as meat animals and the dreadful power wielded by the Brotherhood.
Sangre might cost him more than his life - it might destroy his soul
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.
