City of Illusions

This is the first Ace printing.
Cover Artist: Jack Gaughan

Scattered here and there, small isolated groups of humanity lived in a state of semi-barbarity. Lost were the skills and science, the knowledge that had been Earth’s in the golden age of the League of Worlds.
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Each time a colony of Earthmen began to stir the ashes of half-forgotten technology,, the Shing, mindlying ravagers of Terra, would crush them like insects.
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Only one man dared to stand against the Shing’s hunger for Earth conquest, and that man-the alien with the amber eyes-would first have to prove to a lie-tormented humanity that he himself was not a tool of the enemy!