Science fiction: space opera

Coveting someone’s wife and place in the world is an old, old story—except that the woman and the place Philip coveted were his own!

Evelyn E.

The colony on the red planet had no need for heroes.

Flunking a physical was the greatest worry a space pilot had.

He had been born on a mad, impossible world!

Two men had died before Syme Rector''s guns to give him the key to the ancient city of Kal-Jmar—a city of untold wealth, and of robots that made desires instant commands.