The Lost Worlds of Cronus

Cageworld #2

by Colin Kapp

Mercury Shell, Venus Shell, Earth, Mars, Asteroid, Jupiter, Saturn. Each shell concentric, studded with artificial planets, each planet embedded in its shell, spinning like a ball-bearing. The whole Zeus-created in the service of Man but now beyond his control.

Now mathematics and space physics, converging, suggested another shell, its existence hidden from Man. A shell of utter darkness, cold and silent where only extreme mutants could survive.

To find that shell, the three were journeying again: Maq Ancor, Master Assassin, Magician Cherry, and Sine Anura, Mistress of the Erotic. together, daring the all-seeing, all-sensing hostility of Zeus.

Genres: Science Fiction

176 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published March 1, 1982

About the author

Colin Derek Ivor Kapp was a popular UK science fiction author, but one who never became a success in the USA. He was active, though not prolific, as an author in the 1960s through to the 1980s.

He is best known for his "Unorthodox Engineers" stories, which recount an eccentric group of engineers, who accomplish impossible feats of engineering against all odds.

Pen names: Colin Papp, Colin Capp.

Reviews

[Beth Schluter]

A bit of a slow burner, but I persevered to the end. Don't think I'll get the rest of the series though.

[Bryan457]

The team look for a previously unknown shell and discover more secrets of Zeus, the supercomputer.

Not as good as the first one.

[SciFiOne]

1984 grade C+

Series book CW2