The Laughing Terran

The Laughting Terran is for the reader who enjoys action and adventure spiced with a most probable set of future worlds. Surplus Earth population, often indentured for life as payment for their transportation to new, poorly explored and policed planets, includes some individuals who may choose the gladiator's role on Trippert's Planet, where either death or great riches, prestige, and early freedom await them.

Tinker, the Terran, and Jakon Wy, rare, humanoid beast-like alien from a newly colonized planet, meet at the gladiator pens on Trippert's Planet, where a strange, unnatural relationship binds them. Together they survive the year's contests, only to face one another at the finals. Jakon Wy suicides, making it appear that Tinker has won, but before dying passes to Tinker a small silver cylinder, and he also leaves his "inheritance" to the Earthman.

Now gladiator Champion, free and wealthy, Tinker seeks out his alien friend's "inheritance" on the Planet of the Sluks, and struggles thereafter against both Terran and Sluk intrigues.

Unusually swift, trained and superior in combat, Tinker overcomes all - until his alien friend's friends began their trial and torture. Can this be the Sluk "inheritance?"