"YES, BUT WOULD YOU WANT YOUR DAUGHTER TO MARRY A MESZ?" Art critics are notoriously inhuman - and on Donov many of them were physically inhuman as well. Donov was a planet devoted to the arts. People came from all over the galaxy to attend its galleries and meets its artists. And many of its best artists were not human either. But when a rising tide of anti-alien pogroms and riots begin zeroing in on Donov from outer sace, it became clear that there was a plot afoot that had nothing to do with art criticism. It had to do with planetary genocide. And that's the basus of Lloyd Biggle's most ingenious and suspenseful space novel since THE WORLD MENDERS.
Author
Biggle was born in 1923 in Waterloo, Iowa. He served in World War II as a communications sergeant in a rifle company of the 102nd Infantry Division; during the war, he was wounded twice. His second wound, a shrapnel wound in his leg received near the Elbe River at the end of the war, left him disabled for life. After the war, Biggle resumed his education. He received an A.B. Degree with High Distinction from Wayne State University and M.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan. Biggle taught at the University of Michigan and at Eastern Michigan University in the 1950s. He began writing professionally in 1955 and became a full-time writer with the publication of his novel, All the Colors of Darkness in 1963; he continued in the writing profession until his death.
