Lord Tedric Series by E.E. "Doc" Smith, Gordon Eklund

Star, British paperback reprints the Baronet first edition. This is the first of four novels Eklund wrote in the "Tedric" series, based on an outline by Smith. Eklund is not acknowledged in this edition. The other novels are "Space Pirates" (1979); "Black Knight of the Iron Sphere" (1979); and "Alien Realms" (1980).

Star, British paperback reprints the Baronet first edition. This is the second of four novels Eklund wrote in the "Tedric" series, based on a character conceived by Smith, though Eklund is not acknowledged in this edition. The other novels are "Lord Tedric" (1978); "Black Knight of the Iron Sphere" (1979); and "Alien Realms" (1980).

The hero of the Empire of Man, Lord Tedric, becomes an outlaw in an elaborate plan to infiltrate the enemy and make his way aboard the mysterious Iron Sphere, a super space craft capable of destroying an entire planet. He must find and defeat the pirate Fra Villion, leader of the pirates, and prevent the Iron Sphere from destroying the planet Earth. In doing so he comes one step closer to the nemesis whose red clouds are slowly invading Imperial space.

Lord Tedric of the Marshes, ex-Corpsman and interplanetary warrior, faces a crucial mission: to crush the threat of the Destructive Forces by capturing their agent on the Bioman sphere, the ruthless Black Knight Fra Villion Tedric's crew are bound together by the strong loyalty of outcasts: Yod Cartwright, ex-pirate; Juvi, a prostitute turned expert pilor; Ky-shan the exiled Wykzl; Wilson, the renegade robot; and Pal Galmain, brave but banished Knight of the noble order of Vemplars... moreLord Tedric of the Marshes, ex-Corpsman and interplanetary warrior, faces a crucial mission: to crush the threat of the Destructive Forces by capturing their agent on the Bioman sphere, the ruthless Black Knight Fra Villion Tedric's crew are bound together by the strong loyalty of outcasts: Yod Cartwright, ex-pirate; Juvi, a prostitute turned expert pilor; Ky-shan the exiled Wykzl; Wilson, the renegade robot; and Pal Galmain, brave but banished Knight of the noble order of Vemplars. Tedric mjust warn the Bio,en that their castle is a gatewhile for the annihilation gathering in the grey depths of space, but who will believe the word of a barbarian against the lightning whipsword of Fra Villion? less