Alien Web - Masters of Space, No 2 Author:Robert E. Vardeman The Brain Burners — Barton Kinsolving was a mining engineer, not a space-faring adventurer - until on a mining planet, Deepdig, he stumbled across the Interstellar Materials horrifying secret scheme for planetary genocide. — Now Kinsolving is hunted through the galaxy, framed for crimes beyond human-and alien-imagination, and stalked by killer rob... more »ots. Anything to keep him from revealing the truth about the "Box of Delights", otherwise know as the Brain Burner-the nightmare device that can wipe out entire planets with the deadliest poison ever unleashed-absolute, total, unlimited pleasure...« less