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Somewhere on the storm-ridden unapproachable surface of such a monstrous gas giant an abandoned Gallacellan warship was lying. It was reputed to te armed with the device known to legend as the Fenris weapon.
Such stories attract adventurers thirsting for power. Such tales also attract the masters of the HOODED SWAN who sought knowledge rather than power. And when they gave orders, Grainger of the double-mind had no choice but to obey.
It was up to Grainger therefore to take a little walk where no man had ever gone before in a hell of nature's making and man's ambitions.
Cover by Kelly Freas
Published by DAW in December 1974.
Dedicated to Crad & Wendy Owen
On one of these planets there lies the wreck of a Gailacellan warship - the vehicle of the oldest spacefaring race in the galaxy.
Aboard the wreck is a legendary weapon - The Fenris Device ... a legend strong enough to attract the masters of the Hooded Swan in their thirst for knowledge.
When the orders came, Star-Pilot Grainger could only obey, taking his ship to the inhospitable terrain where no man had ventured before...
Cover by Angus McKie.
Published by Pan in July 1978.
ISBN:0-330-25401-4
In a galactic culture that extends from quasi-Utopian worlds like New Alexandria and New Rome to vermin-infested slums like Old Earth, the pilots of the starships that link the precarious cosmos together are the great romantic heroes of the day. Grainger, who has unwittedly become a legend in his own lifetime, finds himself much in demand when rescued from an unfortunate shipwreck, and is pressed into reluctant servitude in order to fly the prototype (the Hooded Swan) of a new kind of ship that might revolutionize space travel.
The atmosphere of Mormyr is so dense and turbulent that the surface is unreachable by any convention means—which apparently made it the ideal place for the enigmatic Gallacellans to abandon a spaceship in the distant past. Now they want it back and have approached Titus Charlot to enlist his help.
Grainger believes the task is much too dangerous, but the Hooded Swan must answer a mayday call, which turns out to be a trap set by a madman who wants to salvage the abandoned ship—and will stop at nothing to achieve that end. Once again, Grainger has no choice ... but this time, the price of success is his liberation from Charlot. Failure, however, means certain death not just for himself, but for the inhabitants of an entire planet.
And then the Gallacellans appear....
Published by Wildside Press in April 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4344-3513-2
In a galactic culture that extends from quasi-Utopian worlds like New Alexandria to vermin-infested slums like Old Earth, the Star-Pilots that link the cosmos are the great heroes of the day, and Grainger has become a legend in his own lifetime. The atmosphere of Mormyr is so dense that the surface is unreachable, which made it the ideal place for the alien Gallacellans to hide an ancient spaceship. Now they want it back. Grainger refuses, but when the Hooded Swan answers a mayday call, Grainger and his crew are trapped by a madman, who forces them to pursue the salvage anyway. Success will mean Grainger’s freedom from Titus Charlot, owner of the Hooded Swan; failure will mean the death of the inhabitants of an entire planet. And then the Gallacellans appear!
Published by Orion (ebook) in May 2018.
ISBN: 978-1-4732-1954-0
In omnibus Swan Songs.
Translated into French as: Le
Fenris; also
in omnibus Grainger
des Étoiles: L'intégrale — tome 2.
Translated into German as: Das
Götterdämmerrungs - Programm; also in omnibus Die
Saga vom Raumpiloten Grainger.
Translated into Japanese.
