Norstrilia
Rod McBan the Hundred and Fifty-First, the richest boy in the galaxy He passed the test of the Garden of Death, but was still a telepathic cripple -- a danger to Norstrilia his enemies claimed, as owner of the guarded planet's key landholding: the Station of Doom. The only road to safety, his...
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Rod McBan the Hundred and Fifty-First, the richest boy in the galaxy
He passed the test of the Garden of Death, but was still a telepathic cripple -- a danger to Norstrilia his enemies claimed, as owner of the guarded planet's key landholding: the Station of Doom.
The only road to safety, his computer told him, was to become the richest man in the universe ... and he did, in one crowded, unbelievable night.
The computer's logic was faultless ... but man isn't logical. And now Roderick Frederick Ronald William MacArthur McBan 151st had a galaxy of people ... and other beings -- out to rob him, to use him ... or to kill him!
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780345323002 (0345323009)
Publish date: 1985-07
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Series: Instrumentality of Mankind
Part of the Rediscovery of Man universe. I loved this story about a young man from the planet Old North Australia (Norstrilia) actually buying Manhome (Old Earth). While this story stands alone there are references to other things in the Rediscovery of Man universe that make it worth your while to r...
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