The Dark Side of the Sun
Author: Terry Pratchett
Dom Salabos had a lot of advantages.As heir to a huge fortune he had an excellent robot servant (with Man-Friday subcircuitry), a planet (the First Syrian Bank) as a godfather, a security chief who even ran checks on himself, and on Dom’s home world even death was not always fatal.Why then, in an age when prediction was a science, was his future in doubt?….Read More
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