When the young son of Elizabeth Lindstrom, the autocratic president of Starflight, falls to his death, Vance Garamond, a flickerwing commander, is the obvious target for Elizabeth's grief and anger. Which, since Elizabeth is not a forgiving employer, leaves Garamond little choice but to flee. And fleeing Elizabeth's wrath means leaving the Solar System far behind, for ever, and hiding somewhere in deep space. Pursued remorselessly by Earth's space fleet, the somewhere that Garamond finds is an unimaginably vast, alien-built, spherical structure which could just change the destiny of the human race...
- ISBN10 0575070986
- ISBN13 9780575070981
- Publish Date 18 May 2000 (first published 9 January 1975)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 September 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Gollancz
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 192
- Language English