A mothballed space fleet, the great ships were silent and shut down. Each up to fourteen kilometres long, they had been circling Jupiter in their hundreds for nearly a millennium.
To the little band of fugitives, they were both their hope for the future and a terrible reminder of the past. Once they had been the slave ships of their time, transporting whole populations of unwilling humans to the star colonies at the behest of the Master System.
Now, reactivated, one might not only help them escape the Master System but take them in search of the five gold rings that were the key to its control and their freedom.
Cautiously, nervously, their craft edged towards the huge empty hull that loomed in the sky before them...
- ISBN10 0450431185
- ISBN13 9780450431180
- Publish Date 1 October 1988 (first published 12 February 1987)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 20 April 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- Imprint New English Library Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 320
- Language English