Book description
What is happening on Purity - an obscure planet peopled only by
religious introverts? Hitherto the hairshirt brigade have turned their
backs on the rest of the Empire. But now, inspired by the aggressive
zeal of sinister evangelist Tresa Clunard, the Puritans are preparing to
fight a holy war.
Time, once more, for SOTE's crack agents, the Family d'Alembert, to
spring into action. And the responsibility for this mission rests with
the new time of Yvette and Pias Bavol. Theirs is an awesome task, for
the future peace of Stanley Ten's interstellar civilisation hangs in the
balance . . . E. E. 'Doc' Smith (1890 - 1965)
Edward Elmer Smith was born in Wisconsin in 1890. He attended the
University of Idaho and graduated with degrees in chemical engineering;
he went on to attain a PhD in the same subject, and spent his working
life as a food engineer. Smith is best known for the 'Skylark' and
'Lensman' series of novels, which are arguably the earliest examples of
what a modern audience would recognise as Space Opera. Early novels in
both series were serialised in the dominant pulp magazines of the day: Argosy
, Amazing Stories
, Wonder Stories
and a pre-Campbell Astounding
, although his most successful works were published under Campbell's
editorship. Although he won no major SF awards, Smith was Guest of
Honour at the second World Science Fiction Convention in Chicago, in
1940. He died in 1965.
Stephen Goldin (1947 - )Stephen Charles Goldin began publishing science
fiction with 'The Girls on USSF 193' for If
in 1965. He has written a number of novels and received a Nebula
nomination for his short fiction, but is best known for writing the
Family D'Alembert sequence, based on a story by E. E. 'Doc' Smith. He
lives in California.
