Book description
Morgan Chane was an Earthman by parentage, but he had been born on the
pirate-world Varna, whose heavy gravity had developed strength and
incredibly quick reflexes in him. When he was old enough, he joined the
raider-ships that looted the starworlds, and fought side by side with
the dreaded Starwolves of Varna. But then there was a fight among them.
Chane killed their leader, and the other Starwolves turned on him. He
barely got away alive - wounded near death, his Starwolf pursuers
following him across the galaxy. And there was nowhere he could seek
refuge, for no world would lift a hand to save one of the hated
Starwolves.
Edmond
Hamilton (1904-1977)
Born in Youngstown, Ohio, Edmond Hamilton was raised there and in
nearby New Castle, Pennsylvania. He was something of a child prodigy,
graduating from high school and undertaking his college education at
Westminster College at the young age of 14; he dropped out aged 17. A
popular science fiction writer in the mid-twentieth century, Hamilton's
career began with the publication of his short story 'The Monster God of
Mamurth' in the August 1926 issue of Weird Tales
. After the war, he wrote for DC Comics, producing stories for Batman,
Superman and The Legion of Superheroes. Ultimately, though, he was
associated with an extravagant, romantic, high-adventure style of SF,
perhaps best represented by his 1947 novel The Star Kings
. He was married to fellow SF writer Leigh Brackett from the end of 1946
until his death three decades later.
