Star Quest / Doom of the Green Planet Author:Dean R. Koontz, Emil Petaja STAR QUEST — In a universe that had been ravaged by a thousand years of interplanetary warfare between the star-shattering Romaghins and the equally voracious Setessins, there seemed now but one thing that might bring the destruction to an end. — That would be the right catalyst in the hands of the right people. — The right catalyst could we... more »ll be the individualist rebel, Tohm . . . he who had once been a simple peasant and who had been forcibly changed into a fearfully armored instrument of mechanical warfare--the man-tank Jumbo Ten.
But the right people? Could they possibly be the hated driftwood of biological warfare--those monsters of a cosmic no-man's land--the Muties?
DOOM OF THE GREEN PLANET
Save a life and it is your responsibility.
Save a world and it is yours to protect forever.
Such was the geasa Diarmid Patrick O'Dowd, ex-starman. He had himself called down destruction on the Green Planet by destroying its creator and undermining its guiding Song. Now he must shield it from the aspirations of the next star-wanderer to set down on its lush fairy-tale landscape.
For without its special "God" it would mean the end of the wonder world of swordsmen and sorcerers . . . and Diarmid himself had now to play that omnipotent role--even though he was but a marooned pilot and his opponent was the massed power of an organized stellar federation.« less