Book description
When Morgan Chane and his comrades of John Dilullo's interstellar
mercenaries invaded the Close World of Arkuu in search of a lost Terran
expedition, they found a planet of strange menace. Incredibly powerful
monsters prowled though Arkuu's dense jungles, and the ghosts of the
planet's past haunted its ancient deserted cities. The Arkuuns
themselves fought grimly to drive the Terrans away. But at last Chane
discovered the Free-Faring, the terrible alien secret of Arkuu..and
suddenly he knew why no Terran had left the Closed Worlds alive.
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.
