Rhapsody in Black

Book Details

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Author(s):

Brian M Stableford

First Pub:

1973

Genre(s):

Science Fiction

First Read:

Unknown

Times Read:

Never (or unknown...)

Rating:

Chapters:

17 chapters

Internal ID:

2753

Series:

<- The Halcyon Drift - Promised Land ->

Hooded Swan*

#2 of 6

Hooded Swan*

A series of science fiction books written by Brian Stableford.

View this series in the book list

1) The Halcyon Drift
2) Rhapsody in Black
3) Promised Land
4) The Paradise Game
5) The Fenris Device
6) Swan Song

Copyright:

Dedication:

for Jack Spratling

First Sentence:

I spent two long years on a bleak world circling a cold sun on the edge of the Halcyon Drift.

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

I shivered.

Comments:

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Synopsis not on file
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Added: 06-Feb-2020

Last Updated: 04-Jul-2022

Publications

01-Jan-1977

Pan Books

Mass Market Paperback

Date Issued:

Cir 01-Jan-1977

Format:

Mass Market Paperback

Cover Price:

£0.50

Pages*:

138

Cover Link(s):

Internet Speculative Fiction Database

World Cat

amazon.com

Internal ID:

2678

Publisher:

Pan Books

ISBN:

0-330-24646-1

ISBN-13:

978-0-330-24646-0

Printing:

Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Everything which can exist will'

Hooded Swan was the best starship in the Galaxy, and Grainger the best pilot.

The trip to Rhapsody brought nothing but trouble. The poverty-stricken fanatics who lived in its subterranean labyrinths had found a source of riches.

In the race for the planet's secret wealth, Grainger found it could destroy civilization.

Grainger didn't picture himself and his alien mind-parasite alone in the planet's black depths, pursued by outcasts and rebels - but that was before he became Rhapsody's public enemy number one...

'Brian Stableford keeps up a lively pace and has one of the best lines around in exobiology'
TRIBUNE

For the first gripping adventure
of ace space-pilot Grainger read
HALCYON DRIFT
also available in Pan Books

Cover:

Notes and Comments:

First British edition puplished 1975 by J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd
This edition published 1976 by Pan Books Ltd
2nd printing 1977
Australia: $1.50
New Zealand: $1.70
Canada: $1.50

Author(s)

Brian M Stableford
Birth: 25 Jul 1948 Shipley, Yorkshire, England, UK

Awards

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