MARS WAS NO PARADISE
But to Dr. Tony Hellman, it meant a second chance for man - and to Hugo Brenner it meant a world to plunder.
Tony was a leading member of Sun Lake Colony, a band of frontier-extending Earth people - intrepid space pioneers. Brenner was the planet's most powerful magnate, an operator whose vast wealth was based on Earthmen's tragic addiction to the vicious drug, Marcaine.
When Brenner accused the Sun Lakers of stealing a hundred kilograms of the Martian drug, the colony was threatened with extermination unless the thief was found and the Marcaine returned. Tony and his fellow colonists saw their second chance fading. Brenner's success would mean the end of their better world.
Could the struggling colony survive the assaults of entrenched greed and persecution? The answer makes an absorbing science fiction novel, one that has depth as well as action, human warmth as well as suspense and excitement.
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Published as by Cyril Judd
Cover painting by Richard Powers
Magazine publication: "Mars Child" (Galaxy, sr3, maj-lipiec 1951)
First book publication: Outpost Mars (Abelard Press 1952)
Variant title: Sin in Space (Beacon 1961)
- Autor: Cyril M. Kornbluth
- Kategoria: fantastyka, fantasy, science fiction
- Język: angielski
- ISBN: 000-00-0000-00-0
- Data wydania: 1954-01-01
- Liczba stron: 223
- Ocena: 0,0
- Wydawnictwo: Dell Books
