Whipping Star
First published 1970
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In the future, “jumpdoors” presented to mankind by the mysterious entities known as Calebans have made instantaneous travel — to any point in the Galaxy — a commonplace. But the Calebans are vanishing, and now only one is left — and two agents of the Bureau of Sabotage make a horrifying discovery: When the last Caleban dies, so will everyone, everywhere, who has ever used a jumpdoor! And nobody is known not to have “jumped” at least once….
The Caleban must be kept alive — but it is under contract to a psychotic millionairess who is subjecting it to systematic, damaging torture….
From this weird situation, Frank Herbert spins a colorful, fast-moving tale, set in an exotic future civilization — deft, dramatic, shimmering with the “sense of wonder” that marks the best SF.
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Catalogue record
Putnam Pub Group
- Publisher
- Putnam Pub Group
- ISBN
- 978-0-399-10861-7
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- Publisher
- Putnam Pub Group
- ISBNs
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- 978-0-399-10861-7
- 978-1-4001-0566-3
- 978-0-450-00963-1
- 978-1-4001-3566-0
- 978-1-4001-5566-8
- 978-0-425-01909-2
- 978-0-425-04116-1
- 978-0-425-03308-1
- 978-0-425-06457-3
- Author
- Herbert, Frank, 1920–1986
- Statement
- Whipping Star / Frank Herbert.
- Records
- Open Library
- American Science fiction