Planet of Light
Ron Barron Book Two

by Raymond F. Jones (signed label)
Cover by Alex Schomburg

Winston Books First Edition

Description: Hardback book published by John C. Winston Company in 1953. The copyright page states 'First Edition'. Label signed by the author without inscription or personalization laid in. By the author of This Island Earth, which was made into a classic 1955 movie. This books is a sequel to Son of the Stars.

From the front flap: Ron Barron never expectied to see Clonar again. Clonar, the boy who alone had survived the crash of an interstellar saucer-ship near Ron's home, had been rescued by his people and returned to Rorla, a planet in the Great Galaxy of Andromeda, almost a million light-years from Earth. When he left, he assured Ron that communication between Rorla and Earth would be impossible. Yet only a year later, Ron listened with growing excitement to Clonar's voice coming over the interstellar communication system, inviting Ron and his family to journey to Rorla to attend a conference of the Galactic Federation.

None of the Barrons could have known that Clonar's invitation was violently opposed by the Rorlans, nor that on Rorla was an unknown enemy who resented their coming - a man who saw Earth's destruction as a necessity. And it was a bitter coincidence that that man should be in charge of the colony of delegates. As representatives of a planet whose civilization was considered dangerous and too inferior for membership in the Federation, the Barrons found themselves at the mercy of suspicious and hostile strangers bent on proving Earth's civilization unsalvageable. Not until Ron's father becomes an innocent party to an assassination plot, do they fully realize to what extent the Rorlans will carry their deception.

Climaxed by a shocking courtroom scene in which Ron stands trial for Earth, this sequel to Raymond Jones's SON OF THE STARS is an intricately plotted tale of what could happen if earth were to come face to face with long-established civilizations of Outer Space.

About the Author: Raymond F. Jones was an American science fiction author. Between 1951 and 1978, he published sixteen novels and dozens of stories. He is best known for his 1952 novel, THIS ISLAND EARTH, which was adapted into a critically acclaimed 1955 film.

Condition: Binding -good, slight spine lean, top and bottom of spine bumped, moderate edgewear, board edges soiled, page edges a bit tanned and a bit soiled and stained and there is light bumping and scratching of the page edges, pastedowns a little glue stained, previous owner's names on the back of the front free endpaper and stamped onto the half title page, the dedication page and the last page of text. Dust jacket - good, lot of edgewear and rubbing, damage and wrinkling along the edges with tears and relatively light chipping, moderately soiled, not price clipped, in dust jacket protector.

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