"Can we even begin to understand the motivation of a completely nonhuman race..."

United Earth needs strong colonies who can stand by her as allies, not rebellious subject planets.

Kepler III is peopled by colonists of Asiatic origin, their ruler prepared to lie and cheat for independence, their future threatened by monstrous mutations.

Decoyed into deep space, Commander Tom Bruce finds that the planet which his starship Venturer Twelve was to protect lies at the mercy of an unknown enemy.

On his actions depends the future of the human race...

Published
1972
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Dan Morgan

Dan Morgan is an English science fiction writer and a professional guitarist. He was mainly active as a writer from the early 1950s through the mid 1970s. In addition to his fiction, he has written two manuals relating to his musical profession. Morgan is best known for his "Sixth Perception" novels featuring a group characters possessed of psychic powers, the three "Venturer Twelve" space operas co-authored with his colleague John Kippax (a fourth was written by Kippax alone), and the somewhat tongue-in-cheek novel The Richest Corpse in Show Business.