Orchid Cage Author:Herbert W. Franke On a distant planet, not too different from Earth, there stands a mechanized city with no visible inhabitants. — Obviously of a highly developed civilization, the question is who built it, where are they, and what can humans learn from them? — Two teams of explorers enter into a competition to find the answers. There are no holds barred- almost an... more »ything goes to win the contest. But the city is capable of meeting trickery with trickery, violence with violence- and murder with justice.
Such is the premise of THE ORCHID CAGE- one of the most discussed science fiction novels of modern Europe, translated into many languages, and now first brought to you in English. Of its author, a leading SF expert states: "The impact of his work is very similar to that of Philip K. Dick, with the difference that Franke's books are firmly based on science."« less