Cerberus: A Wolf in the Fold

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Cerberus: A Wolf in the Fold

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Author(s):

Jack L Chalker

First Pub:

1981

Genre(s):

Science Fiction

First Read:

2023

Times Read:

1 time

Rating:

Chapters:

See 21

Prologue - Beginning Again

1 - Rebirth

2 - Transportation and Exposure

3 - Orientation and Placement

4 - Settling In

5 - A Glimmer of a Plan

6 - Preparations

7 - Final Set-Up and Much Prayer

8 - Execution

9 - Aftermath and Reset

10 - A Bork Hunt

11 - A Judgement

12 - Project Phoenix

13 - The Easy Way into an Impregnable Fort

14 - Facts About Myself, Some Psych Work, and Fruition

15 - Laroo's Island

16 - Wagant Laroo

17 - Cretive Psych and Proposition Time

18 - R & D - And a Split Decision

19 - The Final Scam

Epilogue

Internal ID:

171

Series:

<- Lilith: A Snake in the Grass - Charon: A Dragon at the Gate ->

Four Lords of the Diamond*

#2 of 4

Four Lords of the Diamond*

A science fiction series by Jack L Chalker featuring a system of worlds where once visited, you can never return and where technology doesn't work.

View this series in the book list

1) Lilith: A Snake in the Grass
2) Cerberus: A Wolf in the Fold
3) Charon: A Dragon at the Gate
4) Medusa: A Tiger by the Tail

Copyright:

Dedication:

For Richard Witter,
another unsung living
legend to whom the SF
community owes a great
deal

First Sentence:

There was not supposed to be fear in the structured and ordered society of the civilized worlds; there was some sort of law against it.

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

I can't get you out of my head.

Comments:

No comments on file

Synopsis not on file
Extract not on file

Added: 29-Dec-2002

Last Updated: 02-Apr-2023

Publications

01-Jan-1982

Del Rey

Mass Market Paperback

Date Issued:

Cir 01-Jan-1982

Format:

Mass Market Paperback

Cover Price:

$2.50

Pages*:

243

Read:

Once

Reading(s):

1) 27 Mar 2023 - 2 Apr 2023

Cover Link(s):

Internet Speculative Fiction Database

World Cat

amazon.com

Internal ID:

2115

Publisher:

Del Rey

ISBN:

0-345-29371-1

ISBN-13:

978-0-345-29371-8

Printing:

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

David B Mattingly - Cover Artist

GRAND SCAM

Robots were infiltrating the Federation. Someone was kidnapping people and substituting indetectable, synthetic imitations. Somewhere, aliens were studying the Federation, using techniques beyond human developments. The trail led back to Cerberus and the Lord who ruled that planet.

Cerberus, however, was one of the Warden Worlds - and those Worlds were the untouchables of space. There a strange microscopic life-form invaded all matter, and anyone so infected died on leaving those Worlds. Men could go there, but never return.

But the Federation had its own techniques. They took a criminal named Qwin Zhang and stripped her mind of all memory and personality. Then they poured into that empty receptacle the full mind of the Federation's best operative. They exiled her to the prison world of Cerberus. The mission: Find the Lord who ruled, kill him, and take over. Too bad there were things about Cerberus they couldn't know!

THE SECOND BOOK OF JACK CHALKER'S EPIC
TETRALOGY DEAL WITH QWIN ZHANG
AND THE WATER WORLD OF CERBERUS - WHERE THE
MOST RUTHLESS ALONE COULD SURVIVE!

FIRST TIME IN PRINT

Cover:

Notes and Comments:

First Edition: January 1982

Author(s)

Jack L Chalker
Birth: 17 Dec 1944 Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Death: 11 Feb 2005

Awards

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