About this ebook
An alien planet - and an evil trade . . .
EXTRA - an organization devoted to trade and exploration missions to alien planets. Thirteen-year-old Jonmac is part of the group who set up a base on the distant planet of Bregele II, home to...
THE STIKS - tall, spindly humanoids whose peaceful natures and primitive ways make them easy prey for...
THE DUSTERS - a group of vicious, ruthless criminals who offer the Stiks a dangerously addictive drug in return for their valuables.
As tension and fear spiral into an explosive and violent confrontation, Jonmac is plunged into a sudden, horrifying danger - and a terrible isolation. His only chance of survival is to win the trust of the Stiks...
EXTRA - an organization devoted to trade and exploration missions to alien planets. Thirteen-year-old Jonmac is part of the group who set up a base on the distant planet of Bregele II, home to...
THE STIKS - tall, spindly humanoids whose peaceful natures and primitive ways make them easy prey for...
THE DUSTERS - a group of vicious, ruthless criminals who offer the Stiks a dangerously addictive drug in return for their valuables.
As tension and fear spiral into an explosive and violent confrontation, Jonmac is plunged into a sudden, horrifying danger - and a terrible isolation. His only chance of survival is to win the trust of the Stiks...
About the author
Douglas Hill was born in Manitoba in western Canada, and grew up in Saskatchewan. After graduating with B.A. (Hons) in English, he moved to London in 1959 and began to earn a living as a writer. He began by working in journalism and by writing non-fiction books on a range of subjects, but turned to writing science fiction and fantasy for young readers in the late 1970s. The author of more than twenty titles for young readers, including the well-known Last Legionary quintet and the Colsec trilogy, World of the Stiks is his first title to be published by Bantam Books.
He lives in north London and has one grown-up son.
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