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It is the twenty fifth century. An age when humanity can [[Teleporters and Transporters|jaunte]] across the world, where telepaths are, if not common, then not unheard of. An age where humanity has spread across the solar system-- a golden age that no one knows they are living in. An age when conflict between the Inner Planets and the Outer Satellites is about to end the age of the Global Wars by means of the outbreak of the first Solar War.
None of this matters to Gully Foyle--the quintessential everyman, if you are convinced [[Humans Are Bastards]]. No education, no skills, no ambition, just a Mechanic's Mate Third Class on the freighter ''Nomad'', which lies crippled in the void between the planets. And he does want to survive, and he has for six months when the spaceship ''Vorga'' sees the wreck of the ''Nomad'', sees the distress signals--and passes by, leaving him to rot.
Now Gully Foyle has a pressing reason to do more than simply survive as he had done while surviving on the ''Nomad'', as he had done all his life before hand. Now, he's headed back to Terra, and he will have his revenge, no matter who stands in his way...
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