Tarrano the Conqueror

A fast-moving early science-fiction thriller about tyranny, resistance, and perilous escape in Ray Cummings’s imagined future.

At a glance Tarrano the Conqueror is a brisk, high-pressure science-fiction adventure from Ray… Set in a future shaped by technological reach and political domination, the novel… The story moves quickly through confinement, pursuit, secret planning, scientific… What still makes the novel interesting is the combination of scale and immediacy.

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About this book An early science-fiction adventure in which a ruthless future ruler tightens his grip on the world, forcing scattered opponents into a story of resistance, pursuit, and escape.