Arrow, London, 1980, 1st pr thus.  ISBN 009-922190-X.  MMPB, 173 pages.  Wraps show edge and cover wear, some sticker residue, small spots of soil, small loss of colour.  Binding sound with wrinkles and crease on spine.  Prior owner’s initials on first page; remainder of interior clean and unmarked with tanning pages.  ‘As guardian of the Universe’s freedom from domination by the Cyclan, Earl Dumarest is ruthlessly hunted by their agent, Cyber Broge, as he searches for the fortune necessary to finance his epic quest for Terra – the planet of his birth.  Hunter and fugitive, predator and victim, Earl Dumarest lands on the planet Zakym. … a cadaverous, twin-sunned world where the spectres of the dead daily claim the lives of the living; a decadent world that threatens to explode with the unparalleled violence of civil war and broken taboos.  Zakym – home of the beautiful, haunted Lavinia, whose soul is claimed and condemned by a power-crazed madman.  Both Lavinia and her planet are doomed until a man appears who promises to be their saviour…’ (from rear wrap)