“The Winds of Gath” by E. C. Tubb. Ace Double H-27 (1967). Cover art by Frank Kelly Freas. First book publication.
“On the planet of no return, all time eras meet.”
“Gath is a strange world with strange potentialities.
“That’s why Sime brought his wife there – long dead in her coffin. That’s why the Matriarch of Kund went to pick her successor. That’s why the Prince of Emmened went to win either a world or a moment’s special pleasure.
“But that was not why Dumarest came. He was simply stranded there, a traveler in Low passage without the price to get home, without even knowing where ‘home’ was. All he could tell people was that its name was Earth, a word which meant soil to them.
“Someone, however, must have known but was not telling. That someone was reluctant to let Dumarest live. But live the Earthman did, through slow-time and quick-time, through ‘phygria’ assassins and laser attacks – and through the fabled Winds of Gath.” [From the Introduction]
“The Winds of Gath” by E. C. Tubb. Ace Double H-27 (1967). Cover art by Frank Kelly Freas. First book publication.
“On the planet of no return, all time eras meet.”
“Gath is a strange world with strange potentialities.
“That’s why Sime brought his wife there – long dead in her coffin. That’s why the Matriarch of Kund went to pick her successor. That’s why the Prince of Emmened went to win either a world or a moment’s special pleasure.
“But that was not why Dumarest came. He was simply stranded there, a traveler in Low passage without the price to get home, without even knowing where ‘home’ was. All he could tell people was that its name was Earth, a word which meant soil to them.
“Someone, however, must have known but was not telling. That someone was reluctant to let Dumarest live. But live the Earthman did, through slow-time and quick-time, through ‘phygria’ assassins and laser attacks – and through the fabled Winds of Gath.” [From the Introduction]