Everything which can exist will'

Hooded Swan was the best starship in the Galaxy, and Grainger the best pilot.

The trip to Rhapsody brought nothing but trouble.  The poverty-stricken fanatics who lived in its subterranean labyrinths had found a source of riches.

In the race for the planet's secret wealth, Grainger found it could destroy civilization.

Grainger didn't picture himself and his alien mind-parasite alone in the planet's black depths, pursued by outcasts and rebels - but that was before he became Rhapsody's public enemy number one...

'Brian Stableford keeps up a lively pace and has one of the best lines around in exobiology'
TRIBUNE

For the first gripping adventure
of ace space-pilot Grainger read
HALCYON DRIFT
also available in Pan Books

GRANGER OF
THE HOODED SWAN

They had set out from Earth in search of the promised land - and after centuries in flight they believed they had found it.  It was already inhabited, but by a primitive and peaceful humanoid race that gave them no opposition.

This was the situation when the HOODED SWAN landed on its information-seeking mission for the vast interstellar libraries of New Alexandria.  Grainger, man of the double-mind, realized early that there was something wrong about the truce between the xenophobic colonists and the docile natives.

It took a fleeing wide-eyed native child to bring the Promised Land suddenly to critical mass.  What was there about this little girl that could so take an entire planet to the edge of Kingdom Come?  That was what Grainger's minds had to find out - and quickly.

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- NEVER
BEFORE IN PAPERBACK -

STAR-PILOT
GRAINGER: #5

The oldest spacefaring race in the galaxy were the secretive Gallacellans.  The most difficult type of planet to explore is the heavy gas giant, the Jovian-Saturnian type planet with which all star systems abound.

Somewhere on the storm-ridden unapproachable surface of such a monstrous gas giant an abandonded Gallacellan warship was lying.  It was reputed to be armed with the device known to legend as the Fenris weapon.

Such stories attract adventurers thristing for power.  Such tales also attract the masters of the HOODED SWAN who sought knowledge rather than power.  And when they gave orders, Grainger of the double-mind had no choice but to obey.

It was up to Grainger therefore to take a little walk where no man had ever gone before - in a hell of nature's making and man's ambitions.

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