
Pawn of the Omphalos
For Mark Carodyne, all of life was a gamble. For money, for sport, for knowledge, for danger. That''s why he had come to Krait for the skimming races he knew would make him rich. Or broke.
Or dead.
Krait. It was dominated by the pulsing quivering kaleidoscopic Omphalos that filled the sky above. An unmeasurable mass that was said to have the power to swallow whole planets - even galaxies. Indeed, s...
For Mark Carodyne, all of life was a gamble. For money, for sport, for knowledge, for danger. That''s why he had come to Krait for the skimming races he knew would make him rich. Or broke.
Or dead.
Krait. It was dominated by the pulsing quivering kaleidoscopic Omphalos that filled the sky above. An unmeasurable mass that was said to have the power to swallow whole planets - even galaxies. Indeed, s...