City In The Sky

Siodmak, Curt

Editore: Readers Union / Science Fiction Book Club / SFBC, 1976

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© 1974: A stand-alone novel by Curt Siodmak. 1st printing of 1976 edition. UK SFBC #1109:- Synopsis: The International Space City was conceived and built through the cooperation of all earth nations as an international political oasis and research centre. It has become as well an enormous resort for the equivalent of today's jet setters. The prototype of the ISC, a relatively tiny satellite also orbits the earth as a site of permanent space exile for political prisoners. The limited capacity of the space prison presents a bizarre problem: news of an incoming prisoner necessitates the elimination of a resident to make room, since all sentences are for life. And Ground will not make the selection, feigning ignorance of the situation, leaving it up to the prisoners to single out a compatriot for oblivion. When Pierre Bardou arrives with a viable plan for escape, the seething tormented frustration of fine minds and talents already incarcerated there crystallizes into a desperate plot to force their reinstatement on earth. Bardou leads the exiles in a sudden foray on the ISC, occupying one of the landing docks in the hope of drawing world-wide attention to the inhumanity of their sentences. But some of his fellow 'spacejackers' have more sinister plans. Ignoring Bardou's pleas for compromise, they threaten holocaust for the ISC if their demands are not met. As deadlines pass without resolution of the crisis and sympathies fluctuate between the threatened International Space City and its desperate hijackers, tension between and within the two groups builds inexorably toward what seems to be the ultimate showdown in space:- Review(s): "The author has blended carefully authenticated space technology with his own superb writing skills to produce an exciting novel that transcends the genres of science fiction and suspense:- (original cost unmarked).

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• Titolo: City In The Sky
• Editore: Readers Union / Science Fiction Book Club / SFBC
• Data di pubblicazione: 1976
• Lingua: Inglese
• Rilegatura: Hardback: 8" x 5"
• Disegnatore: Cover Art: Irving Freeman
• Edizione: UK SFBC Edition
• Condizione: Very Good: Light signs of wear
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Fair
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • UK SFBC
  • Science Fiction