When his wife is murdered on his wedding day, Lucas Trask begins his search for her murderer with unexpected consequences. Lucas uses his personal fortune to buy a starship and become a Space Viking raiding and trading and building an empire while searching for his wife's killer. Henry Beam Piper was an American science fiction author best known for his extensive Terro-Human Future History series of stories and a shorter series of Paratime alternate history tales.

The Anthology of Sci-Fi V39 is a collection of ten Sci-fi stories from one of the best pulp si-fi writers of the past century. Included are: The Edge of the Knife, Omnilingual, Naudsonce, Oomphel in the Sky, Graveyard of Dreams, A Slave is a Slave, Ministry of Disturbance, The Keeper. Henry Beam Piper was an American science fiction author best known for his extensive Terro-Human Future History series of stories and a shorter series of Paratime alternate history tales.