The Centauri Device John Truck was to outward appearances just another lowlife spaceship captain. He peddled drugs when they were available, carried cargo when they weren't. But he was also the last of the Centaurans - or at least, half of him was - which meant that he was the only person who could operate the Centauri Device, a sentient bomb which might hold the key to settling a vicious space war. Sf Masterworks is a library of the greatest SF ever written, chosen with the help of today's leading SF writers and editors. These books show that genuinely innovative SF is as exciting today as when it was first written.
'An amazing list - genuinely the best novels from sixty years of SF' Iain M. Banks 'A zen master of prose' Iain M. Banks
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'He writes with a cool and disciplined hand. His prose is always elegant, but never vain ... unerringly he seeks the underside of things.' Times Literary Supplement
'Enjoyably rancid imagination ... extraordinary, lively and moving.' Sunday Times
'Harrison's two principal strengths are his ability to depict violent action in convincing detail, and his facility for alternating that with moody descriptions of landscapes of entropy.' David Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels
The Centauri Device
The Centauri Device