Terry Carr – författare

Millennia in the future, Earth has become a backwater planet, ignored by others in the galaxy. Its one jewel is Cirque - the city on the Abyss, a city of love and harmony, with inspiring religious rites. But in the Abyss there lives the Beast, formed from the castoff hates of the Cirquians: a beast whose body is refuse, whose mind is black as sin. Feeble weapons are no match for the Beast. And now, after centuries, it''s climbing out of the Abyss to claim its own...

As Jack Eskridge sped through the night toward Chicago, the sky was suddenly lit with a flash of brilliance.Jack stopped the car and ran toward the light. He was greeted by a fantastic sight: a huge, weirdly glowing arch, through which were pouring strange-looking tanks, airships and metallic-clad soldiers carrying sinister weapons.Jack knew he had to get away and warn the country of the invasion. But before he could reach Chicago all the major cities in the United States had been conquered by the aliens.No one knew where they came from or what their evil purpose was. Only one thing was certain - they had to be stopped before the whole of mankind fell under their domination.

Warlord of Kor is a science fiction novel by Terry Gene Carr.

GOD, MACHINE--OR LISTENING POST FOR OUTSIDERS?

Horng sat opposite the tiny, fragile creature who held a microphone, its wires attached to an interpreting machine. He blinked his huge eyes slowly, his stiff mouth fumblingly forming words of a language his race had not used for thirty thousand years.

"Kor was ... is ... God ... Knowledge." 

He had tried to convey this to the small creatures who had invaded his world, but they did not heed. Their ill-equipped brains were trying futilely to comprehend the ancient race memory of his people. Now they would attempt further to discover the forbidden directives of Kor. Horng remembered, somewhere far back in the fossil layers of his thoughts, a warning.

They must be stopped! If he had to, he would stamp out these creatures who were called "humans."

Warlord of Kor was first published in 1963.

Total Running Time (TRT): 3 hours, 32 min. Reading by Mark Nelson.

Terry Gene Carr (1937-1987) was a U.S. science fiction author, editor, and writing instructor, who won four Hugo Awards.