GALACTIC POT HEALER

British Editions

• Gollancz 1971, 191 pages, £1.60, hard cover
• Pan 1972, 1977 156 pages, 25p, paperback
• Pan 1977, 156 pages, 60p, paperback
• Grafton 1987, 189 pages, £2.50, paperback
• Gollancz 2005, 320 pages, £7.99, paperback

From the back cover of the 1987 Grafton edition

'But Faust always loses' said the Ouasiarachnid
Joe Fernwright's skills as a pot-healer are obsolete. Stuck in a miserable subterranean room, he can't even afford to keep up the payments on his window-hologram. And every week there's a rush to the supermarket before galloping inflation wipes out the value of his dole. Until the Glimmung offers a way out On Plowman's Planet this curiously fallible deity is gathering a team to raise the submerged cathedral of Heldskalla. The Book of Kalends says it can't be done. But following an animated conversation with his own corpse beneath the Mare Nostrum, Joe decides to do bailie with fate itself. ..