Brightness Falls from the Air

First printing February 1985. Clean text block. Tight, square binding. Unclipped dust jacket with $14.95 price intact. The pseudonym of Alice Sheldon. "A thriller in which a lonely outpost of galactic civilization is taken over by gangsters while the debris of a nova comes ever closer . Seemingly modeled on the 1948 film 'Key Largo.'" - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1134. 1986 Hugo nominee. Hartwell, 200 Significant SF Books by Women. 382 pages