Earthman Gary Towler is a pariah. He must interpret the will of the Nuls who rule his planet, Earth, and he’s running out of time to overthrow their plans…

The time: thousands of years hence. The whole of the known universe is dominated by the Nuls, a huge, three-armed race, almost as old as time itself.

A charge of Nul corruption on an insignificant planet called Earth sets off a dramatic chain of events.

'For decades, Brian Aldiss has been among our most prolific and consistently stylish writers.' THE TELEGRAPH

‘The best of British science fiction writers.’ THE SCOTSMAN

‘Aldiss is a magician.’ SUNDAY TIMES

Brian Aldiss, OBE, is a fiction and science fiction writer, poet, playwright, critic, memoirist and artist. He was born in Norfolk in 1925. After leaving the army, Aldiss worked as a bookseller, which provided the setting for his first book, The Brightfount Diaries (1955). His first published science fiction work was the story ‘Criminal Record’, which appeared in Science Fantasy in 1954. Since then he has written nearly 100 books and over 300 short stories.