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Publication
Riverdale, NY : New York : Baen Books ; Distributed by Simon & Schuster, c2008.
Description
Murdoc Jern's father, an interstellar gem trader, was murdered by outlaw competitors and left behind an odd ring, large enough to fit over the finger of a space suit. With his companion Eet, a strange feline mutant with phenomenal mental powers, he soon discovered that the stone in the ring was actually a Zero Stone-an alien device left behind by an ancient vanished race-and it was the key to powers beyond human imagination. Murdoc and Eet had to solve the secret of the Zero Stone, and very quickly, because very greedy and dangerous people wanted that ring, and wouldn't hesitate at a second murder to obtain it.
User reviews
LibraryThing member JohnFair
This consists of two earlier books by Andre Norton, The Zero Stone, and Uncharted Stars, both published at the end of the 1960s. Whilst the basic theme of the overall story is familiar; a young man in search of fame and, mainly, fortune, there is a greater air of cynicism about the main
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governmental organisations than would be familiar to readers of Ms Norton's science fiction. On the whole, though, tale is well up to Ms Norton's usual standards Show Less
ISBN
1416555994 / 9781416555995
Local notes
Murdoc Jern, omnibus 1-2
DDC/MDS
Fic SF Norton |