Author: Colin Kapp

Publisher:  Ballantine 25192

Year: 1976 Print: 1 Cover Price: $1.50

Condition: Book Grades   Very Good. Light wear

Genre:  Science Fiction

Pages: 184

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Four worlds that cannot be visited.
Four worlds that must be visited.

Aliens are spying on Earth from one of the four worlds that make up the Warden Diamond. But it is impossible to send agents to any of the four worlds because of unique microscopic symbionts that make it impossible for visitors to leave the Diamond.

Seeking a unique solution, each of the four worlds making up the Diamond is sent a person whose mind has been stripped of everything and who is now controlled by an agent of the Confederacy

Lilith is the first planet to be visited. Here, Cal Tremon, stripped of his own personality, must overcome incredible odds and survive not only the incredible perils of the foreign planet but his own controllers as well.

The Nagasaki Vector (1983) by L. Neil Smith is the fourth book in the libertarian science fiction North American Confederacy series. It follows Captain Bernie Gruenblum, whose timeship is thrown off course into the past, where a mutiny threatens to leave him stranded in medieval Japan, intersecting with events leading to World War II.