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He is a planetary operative sent on the toughest assignments throughout the known galaxy. He has the power to intervene in any situation that threatens the peace of the Terran Sphere and the licence to act as judge, jury and executioner.
He is Cap Kennedy, agent of F.A.T.E.FREE ACTING TERRAN ENVOY
F.A.T.E.
Seetee is the most dangerous substance in the universe - bring it into contact with the most stable of normal material and it explodes with enormous energy and destruction.
When Captain Kennedy and his crew, the top men of F.A.T.E. - Free Acting Terran Envoys - accidentally brush against some Seetee they not only thank their lucky stars for their escape, but realise it signals an emergency of the highest order.
Because such a swarm as they have encountered could cause the destruction of an entire solar system. And thy have reason to believe it is directed at out Sun - including particularly the Earth!
E.C. Tubb
Edwin Charles Tubb was born in London in 1919, and was a prolific author of SF, fantasy and western novels, under his own name and a number of pseudonyms. He wrote hundreds of short stories and novellas for the SF magazines of the 50's, including the long-running Galaxy Science Fiction, and was a founding member of the British Science Fiction Association. He died in 2010.
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