Secret Agent of Terra

Secret Agent of Terra

Infobox Book |
name = Secret Agent of Terra
title_orig =
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image_caption = Cover of the first edition
author = John Brunner
illustrator =
cover_artist =
country = United States
language = English
series = Zarathustra Refugee Planets
subject =
genre = Science fiction novel
publisher = Ace Books
release_date = 1962
english_release_date =
media_type = Print (Paperback)
pages = 127 pp
isbn = NA
preceded_by =
followed_by = Castaways' World

"Secret Agent of Terra" is a 1962 science fiction novel by John Brunner. It is the first book of the Zarathustra Refugee Planets series. The other books are "Castaways' World" (1963) and "The Repairmen of Cyclops" (1965). "Secret Agent of Terra" was first published as Ace Double F-133, with "The Rim of Space" by A. Bertram Chandler.

Brunner later reworked the story for his 1969 novel "The Avengers of Carrig".

Plot summary

Planet 14 was just a speck on a spacial stereo map, just a world inhabited by a group of barbaric refugees. But to Belfeor, it was instant cash. All he needed was an iron hand and a means to dig out its radioactive resources for export to his own world. To Maddalena it was a final exam: this would be her last chance to prove herself worthy of Corps Galactica membership. To Saikmar, it was a nation and a people stolen from him by cruel treachery. To Gus Langenschmidt, it was part of a job he had, watching the skies and helping men who were being enslaved. But how do you help people who don't know you exist and who must not be told?

Bibliography

*cite book | year = 1962 | title = Secret Agent of Terra | publisher = Ace Books | location = New York
*cite book | year = 1980 | origyear = 1969 | title = The Avengers of Carrig | publisher = Daw Books | location = New York | id = ISBN 0-87997-509-1

References

*cite book | last=Tuck | first=Donald H. | authorlink=Donald H. Tuck | title=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy | location=Chicago | publisher=Advent | pages=71 | date=1974|id=ISBN 0-911682-20-1

External links

* [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?3281 "Secret Agent of Terra"] at the ISFDB


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