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They said that Artur Blord was ruthless, a heartless manipulator whose blind lust for power would ruin the Ridge Stars. They said he had to be eliminated because he was too much of a threat to their secret. But just who where they, the accusers of Artur Blord? And what was the secret which Artur Blord threatened? Beyond the answers to these two questions lay a tortured path along which Artur Blord compelled himself to travel. Menaced by a terrifying array of lethal forces, Blord risked his life against alien aggressors as well as more human adversaries. Never knowing at what moment death might overtake him, he fought to fulfill a dream; that he might one day claim the title that ridges couldn't buy: Master of the Ridge Stars!

"By the year 2660, science has transformed and conquered the world, rescuing humanity from itself. Spectacular inventions from the farthest reaches of space and deep beneath the earth are available to meet every need, providing antidotes to individual troubles and social ills. Inventors are highly prized and respected, and they are jealously protected and lavishly cared for by world governments. That support and acclaim, however - as the most brilliant of scientists, Ralph 124C 41+, discovers - is not without its price."--BOOK JACKET.

Science is on the verge of a revolution. A cutting-edge new replication process is invented, and any matter can be reproduced - Shakespeare's signature, works of art, even...a human being? When a brilliant scientist believes that this perfect replication process offers the solution to an excruciating love triangle, the limits of the new technology are tested - and impossible questions of identity and originality threaten to tear apart the best-laid plans of paradise.