Star Well: Alexei Panshin

Anthony Villiers Adventure No. 1. Star Well...Crossroads of the Flammarion Rift. Within Star Well can be found casinos and dining rooms, luxury suites and expensive shops, warehouses - and secret basements. Wu and Frabicant;s Guidebook says Star Well is a dull place to visit. It wouldn't have said that if Wu and Fabricant had been shown the secret basements. Strange travellers come to Star Well...Anthony Villiers: personable, curious, temporarily without funds to cover his bill - the hero; Torve the Trog: Bulge-eyed alien, illegal wanderer, vegetarian by principle; Augustus Srb: fat and dubious priest of Mithra and perhaps something more...Secrets cannot be hidden for ever and the tight little world of Star Well was bursting at the seams with them. Calamity, Uproar and the end of an era are inevitable...Cover art by Kelly Freas.