Book description
Matthew Wade had been a coord, one of the mysterious chosen ones, who
through the powers unknown to the rest of mankind, ruled over the known
galaxy. But Wade fled the overwhelming responsibility of his exalted
caste and went into hiding on the symb-socket circuit. The
symb-socketeers were the migrant workers of the galaxy. Traveling from
planet to planet, they worked for play and played for a living. Matthew
Wade adopted the freewheeling, ever-changing life hoping to evade the
bailiffs of Altimus, the home planet of the cords, knowing that they
would never rest until they had tracked down the renegade. And then Wade
took service on the plant of Ashramdrego, and was faced with the most
important decision of his life - would he let an entire planet be
destroyed rather than reveal his true identity? Kenneth Bulmer (1921 -
2005) Henry Kenneth Bulmer was born in London in 1921. He was a prolific
author, writing over 160 novels under a bewildering array of pen names,
and including adventure, historical and western novels, as well as TV
tie-ins in addition to his prodigious science fiction output. He died in
2005.
