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    Divine Right
    Divine Right
    Divine Right
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    Divine Right

    By Lester Del Rey and John Betancourt

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    In a world where the privileged are granted immortality through cybernetics and secretive methods, Mark Saxon faces a career-ending failure. While appealing for more time to complete his research, he discovers evidence that the current World Custodian may have lived for centuries by transplanting his mind into new bodies.


    As Mark races against time to expose this truth, he uncovers the depth of the custodian's power and the horrifying reality of mental immortality. With his life at stake, Mark must decide if he can trust those who promise him the ultimate gift: a shared mind and eternal fellowship.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWildside Press
    Release dateAug 1, 2024
    ISBN9781667699516
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    Lester Del Rey

    Lester del Rey (June 2, 1915 – May 10, 1993) was an American science fiction author and editor. He was the author of many books in the juvenile Winston Science Fiction series, and the editor at Del Rey Books, the fantasy and science fiction imprint of Ballantine Books, along with his fourth wife Judy-Lynn del Rey.

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      Divine Right - Lester Del Rey

      Table of Contents

      COPYRIGHT INFORMATION

      INTRODUCTION, by John Betancourt

      LESTER DEL REY: SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

      DIVINE RIGHT, by Lester Del Rey

      COPYRIGHT INFORMATION

      Copyright © 2024 by Wildside Press LLC.

      Story copyright 1957, 1985 by Lester del Rey.

      Originally published in Astounding Science Fiction, July 1957.

      Published by Wildside Press LLC.

      wildsidepress.com

      INTRODUCTION,

      by John Betancourt

      Lester del Rey was one of the most accomplished writers in the early days of genre science fiction. His novels and short stories appeared in every leading magazine from the 1930s through the 1950s. His work explored robotics, time travel, telepathy, alien invasion, space exploration, first contact, and many more themes, all with vivid writing and realistic, believable characterizations.

      He was highly creative, and, in fact, made up most of the public details of his life. He often told people his real name was Ramon Felipe Alvarez-del Rey (and sometimes even Ramon Felipe San Juan Mario Silvio Enrico Smith Heartcourt-Brace Sierra y Alvarez del Rey y de los Uerdes). He also claimed that his whole family was killed in a car accident in 1935. However, after his death, his sister confirmed that his name was, in fact Leonard Knapp, and the accident in 1935 killed his first wife but not his parents, brother, or sister.

      In the 1950s and 1960s, he moved from short fiction to writing novels for adults and young adults, while simultaneously embarking on an editing career. Along with his fourth wife, Judy-Lynn, Lester del Rey met his greatest success at Ballantine Books, where they established the fantasy and science fiction imprint Del Rey Books in 1977. Del Rey Books continues to this day.

      Del Rey was a member of the literary banqueting club, the Trap Door Spiders, which served as the basis of Isaac Asimov’s fictional group of mystery solvers, the Black Widowers. (He was the model for Emmanuel Rubin.)

      Following Lester del Rey’s death, I purchased his literary estate from his heirs and have been working to put all of his classic fiction back into print.

      Judy Lynn and Lester Del Rey at Minicon 8 (1974).

      (Source: Wikimedia Commons.)

      LESTER DEL REY:

      SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

      NOVELS

      Marooned on Mars (1952)

      Rocket Jockey (1952)

      Attack from Atlantis (1953)

      Battle on Mercury (1953)

      The Mysterious Planet (1953)

      Rockets to Nowhere (1954)

      Step to the Stars (1954)

      For I Am a Jealous People (1954)

      Preferred Risk (1955) with Frederik Pohl

      Mission to the Moon (1956)

      Nerves (1956)

      Police Your Planet (1956)

      Day of the Giants (1959)

      Moon of Mutiny (1961)

      The Eleventh Commandment (1962)

      Outpost of Jupiter (1963)

      The Sky Is Falling (1963)

      Badge of Infamy (1963)

      The Runaway Robot (1965)

      Rocket from Infinity (1966)

      The Scheme of Things (1966)

      Siege Perilous (1966)

      Tunnel Through Time (1966)

      Prisoners of Space (1968)

      Pstalemate (1971)

      Weeping May Tarry (1978) with Raymond F. Jones

      DIVINE RIGHT,

      by Lester Del Rey

      The cybernetics wing of Eos Institute lay in the shadow of the central tower, where even the faint twilight failed to reach it. Most of the building was dark in the lull of annual finals. The successful students were out celebrating their newly created Fellowships; those who had failed were already gone, to make whatever they could of their doctorates. Only a few lights shone from windows here and there as neophyte Fellows cleaned out their laboratories or grew accustomed in private to the official masks that proved their rank.

      The lights were on in the room where Mark Saxon waited,

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