Storm Over Warlock

Armchair fiction presents extra large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. "Storm Over Warlock" is one of author Andre Norton's best works. He was alone on a hostile planet. The Throg task force moved against the Terran survey camp just a few minutes after dawn. They struck entirely without warning, and with a deadly precision that seemed to argue that the aliens had fully reconnoitered the area and made detailed preparations for the attack. Eye-searing lances of energy lashed back and forth across the base with an unnerving and methodical accuracy. And a single cowering witness-flattened on a ledge in the heights above-knew that when the last of those yellow-red bolts fell, nothing human would be left alive down below. And so Shann Lantee, most menial of the men attached to the Terran camp on the planet Warlock, was left alone and weaponless in a strange and hostile world. The only human survivor, and the prey of aliens from outer space and aliens on the ground alike.