Eye in the Sky

London: Arrow Books, 1971. Assumed First Edtion . Mass Market Paperback. Good. 255 Pages. Blue ink price stamp page before title page. Very light age tanning to pages. Otherwise tight straight book with no other marks or stamps. As Jack Hamilton ascended higher into the stratosphere, he could see the great ball of Earth spread beneath him. And it was standing still! Around it, in an orbit, swung a tiny mass of glowing matter -- the sun. It was the ancient geocentric universe come true -- a universe with Earth at dead centre and all other celestial bodies subseervient to it. lAs lhe rose still higher, he found that he was peering into a gignatic lake, a lake roomy enough to hold all Earth without a ripple. And then, with a shocked gasp, Jack lrealized that it wasn't a lake at all. He wa peering into a colossal eye -- an eye in the sky. He was trapped in someone else's personal world. a someone who seemed not very sane. A world of fundamental religion, ruled over by a crude version fo ann Old Testament God, where the sinners were miserable and the lrighteous, intolerant and inetolerable.