About the Book
Serial publication in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction under the title ...And Call Me Condrad in 1965. First book edition in 1966.
Hugo Award 1966.
"...and call me Conrad!" Such was the only comment that Conrad Nimikos
would make on his life-history, an enigma that faded out in lost
records and obscurity a few decades back. There were those who said he
had once had a different name, that of the liberator of Earth, the man
who had fought the star-empire of Vega to a standoff. And some even
said that he had had other names, stretching back through the centuries...
But Conrad wouldn't talk about his past. For the future was
at stake now – the future of Earth and her peoples, as the Vegans
returned on a mission which would decide for all time the place of
Earth among the worlds of the stars.
