[from back cover]
A solitary mountain rises from the searing, toxic blackness of the planet. Forty miles below, the atmosphere is sixty times as thick as Earth's, and hot enough to melt lead.
The organ banks are the centre of this world. To them the subservient colonists contribute living limbs. And from them the overlords obtain the vital parts that keep them all alive...
- ISBN10 1857230787
- ISBN13 9781857230789
- Publish Date 31 December 1981 (first published 7 October 1971)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 31 December 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Orbit
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 256
- Language English