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The planet had two unique elements. One was that ir produced the galaxy's most elusive and most desirable hallucinatory drug. The other was that it was a stock broker's paradise. The world was split into rich men's holdings and every day, every hour, every minute these were being traded on a continuous stock market. Up and down went values and rights as neb conspired to seize other's properties, to push prices down and costs up. Their money game controlled everything else - the common show more people, workers farmers, homes, lives, women, poverty and luxury - all were at the continuous sway of that market of gluttony. Earl Dumarest went there to find his next stake. Find the drug-gem or manipulate the market - two possibilities. But behind the scenes stood the advisors of the inhuman Cyclan determined to fix the odds against Dumarest... show lessTags
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So much hopelessness. Always such pitiful men at the end of their rope and no help in sight. Always a strong friend who could become an enemy, always a beautiful woman who helps but betrays and frequently dies. Always a book or artifact with the clue to home, almost within touching distance and then through error, misfortune, insanity, greed, destruction...the chance to see and know is lost. Another new twist and interesting world and how he fits in and manipulates it, gains ship fare and escapes his dread enemy and leaves woman and friend behind.
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E. C. Tubb was born in London on October 15, 1919. He wrote under about 65 pseudonyms including Gregory Kern, Carl Maddox, Alan Guthrie, Eric Storm and George Holt during his 60 years as a freelance writer. He mainly wrote science fiction novels including Moon Base, Alien Dust, The Space-Born, Death Is a Dream, and the series The Dumarest Saga or show more Dumarest of Terra in the United States. He died on September 10, 2010 at the age of 90. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Nectar of Heaven
- Original title
- Nectar of Heaven
- Original publication date
- 1981-04
- People/Characters
- Earl Dumarest
- Important places
- Sacaweena (fictitious planet)
- Dedication
- To
Norman and Ina Shorrocks - First words
- All night the wind had droned over the workings dying at dawn when a pale yellow sun had illuminated a world transfigured by cold.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Dumarest turned and walked across the field to the waiting ship, the sky, and the empty spaces between the stars.
- Original language*
- Englisch
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