The Globes of Llarum

by Gene Lancour

Cort Devereaux, mercenary available for the highest price, exile from a destroyed planet, finds himself stranded without credit on Llarum, a backwater frontier planet whose unique wealth is based on the gas voided by bioluminescent globes - a colorful product marketed through out the human-settled planets.

186 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1980

About the author

Gene Louis Lancour Fisher
aka Gene Fisher & Jeanne Lancour

Reviews

[Jonathan]

The hero makes off with a very small female who cannot speak (there are no words for this kind of plot development!)

A by-the-numbers tale of a lawless rim world, exploited by a cruel company. In drifts a gun for hire who shoots up everyone, reflects on nothing and walks away. Plus there are little floating sheep that excrete explosive gases no less. Plus there are pages at the end where the baddies confess their crimes in great detail, while the anti-hero is tied up... Plus, the floating sheep glow and look really pretty... Really I cannot hate this book, it is not badly written like a Kate Moose or Dan Brown, but it has no life, it feels as though the author doesn't care a jot for the place and neither in consequence should we.