Judgement on Janus

✍ Scribed by Arthur L-F. Askins Collection of Andre Norton.;Norton, Andre

• Publisher: Ace Books
• Year: 1970
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 124 KB
• Series: Janus 1
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York

✦ Synopsis

EPUB (reworked using a Gorgon Scan)

Naill Renfro and his
mother were just two members of the flostom that had washed up in the
Dipple, the vast refugee camp on Korwar that had taken in the
dispossessed of the destroyed worlds, then forgotten about them.

In
order to buy his mother the drugs she required end her days in
oblivion, if not peace, Naill sold the last thing of worth he had left;
himself. He knew the planet Janus would not be a pleasant world, else
there would have been no need for indentured labour. But both the
service and the planet are living hells, right up to the time Naill
found a pretty tangled in the roots of a felled forest giant.

Then
he found the true meaning of hell as a disease overwhelmed him, leaving
the Garthmen to abandon him to a strange fate as he is transformed into
a new form: green skinned Ayyar of Iftcan, a civilization that had died
more years ago than either Naill or Ayyar cared to think of...

✦ Subjects

Life on other planets -- Fiction