Brion Brandd has just won the gruelling Twenties contest on his home world of Anvhar when he is recruited for a desperate mission to Dis, a desert planet whose inhabitants seem devoid of emotion and are threatening a neighbouring world with atomic weapons. To prevent war he must understand what has gone wrong with an entire people, and quickly.
A tense, idea-driven novel from the creator of the Stainless Steel Rat, first serialized in Analog in 1961. Download the free EPUB.