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When the HOODED SWAN landed on Pharos, it was indeed all that paradise could be. They came to investigate, they stayed to protect. For unless they played the role of the angel with the flaming sword, very soon this softest and gentlest world of all men's dreams would become another gaudy hellhole of exploitation.
But as Grainger and the crew of the HOODED SWAN were to learn, this world, like the original paradise had a serpent of its own. And the apple of its tree of knowledge might be found too late to save its star-borne invaders... including its would-be defenders.
Cover Art by Kelly Freas.
Published in 1974 by DAW.
Dedicated to Barbara Carlisle
I t was easy to see why Pharos was a pawn in the Paradise Game. The planet was the incarnation of all that people were conditioned to think of as beautiful an unpolluted Earth, a perfect environment that a few botanical beauty surgeons and several billion dollars could tailor to meet every need, want and dream.
Caradoc had adopted Pharos as part of the Paradise drive, had produced what it claimed was an agreement with the natives humanoid, gullible and all female. Charlot, New Alexandrian expert on alien/human understanding, sends Grainger to investigate the operation. But as the pilot of the Hooded Swan is soon to learn, this world, like the original paradise, has a serpent of its own.
Cover by Bob Marchant
Published
in 1977 by Dent.
ISBN:0-460-04308-0
Its environment unpolluted and perfect, its inhabitants humanoid, gullible and female - Pharos was the natural pawn for the Paradise Game.
Charlot, New Alexandrian expert on alien/human understanding, despatches Grainger and the starship Hooded Swan to investigate the world of Pharos.
There, Grainger discovers that this Paradise also has a serpent of its own...
Cover by Angus McKie.
Published
in 1978 by Pan.
ISBN:0-330-25268-2
In omnibus Swan Songs.
Translated into French as: Un Petit coin de Paradis.
Translated into German as: Die Paradies-Prinzip;
also in omnibus Die Saga vom Raumpiloten Grainger.
Translated into Japanese.
