The Light That Never Was: Lloyd Biggle Jnr

Multitudes of visitors flock to Donov to see the mushroom church, the philpp trees and to buy paintings of the planet's extraordinary light effects. Donov is a multi-million pound interplanetary tourist centre, a planet devoted to art and artists. On the outer worlds of the galaxy disorder is spreading. Animaloids - non-human life forms - are demanding equal status with humans. Art critics are notoriously inhuman - and on Donov, many of them were physically inhuman as well. Then one of Donov's leading art critics receives a brilliant painting from a mysterious source. Is it possible that this is the work of an animaloid, a superb creation of a gifted non-human intelligence? Cover art by Colin Andrew.