Phaeton Condition - Hardcover

Douglas R. Mason

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0709141920 ISBN 13: 9780709141921

Publisher: Hale, 1974

Synopsis

The Phaeton Condition. Once upon a future century, a young man with both feet firmly planted on the ladder of Establishment success discovered that the powers that be--the powers he served--were plotting to lock the planet into a suicidal course for their own profit. For the earth was in the same condition as Phaeton's sun-chariot in the myth--hurtling towards destruction. So, Tom Lockhart had a choice to make. He could pretend not to know what he knew, and protect himself from those who would certainly kill a lone man to preserve their genocidal scheme. He could, at considerable risk, exploit the knowledge to save himself when catastrophe came. Or, he could fight the plot--at the near-certain cost to his life, and with near-zero chances of saving the world anyway. He astonished himself more that anyone when he made the third choice and set off a planet-wide chase employing all the dazzling ingenuity of a technologically sophisticated age with all the weapons in the hands of his ruthless opponents.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hale
• Publication date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0709141920
• ISBN 13: 9780709141921
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192