The Morphodite by M.A. Foster How do you destroy a conspiracy without making waves? Because every such underground movement has a key person, the subtle way is to remove that keystone and watch the rest of the organization fall apart. Their world was ultra-conservative, isolated, opposed to change. Their secret police had tried many means to keep it that way. Now they had contrived their cleverest secret weapon. This was a genetically-patterned, laboratory-raised human genius, the Morphodite. The Morphodite needed no computers to detect the key to any conspiracy—the know-how was structured into his/her brain. The Morphodite needed no assistance to make a foolproof escape after such an assassination. The know-how was built into his/her body. But the Morphodite had one defect its "gestapo" parents had not planned. He/she could think for itself And its thoughts were total subversion.

The Morphodite was a genetically constructed genius who had turned the tables on the police state that had created it. Settled down to a man's quiet life, he contemplated a lifetime of doing good in a liberated world...until a vengeance squad wiped out that hope. Now, again utilizing that unique talent, the young woman who was now the Morphodite, realized that the job could not be finished until the enemies of that planet's society were tracked to their interstellar lair and blasted. Across the planet she went and finally into outer space in a city-sized starship to a final showdown somewhere between the worlds.

On the strange, urban world Teragon, Demsing is being hunted. A talented fixer with unusual abilities, he sets out to find out who is looking for him, and who he really is.