Put yourself in the place of Kim Rendall, a handsome, idealistic young man living on a distant planet ruled by a super-efficient government. Here is industrialization carried to its illogical conclusion. Kim Rendall lives in the shadow of mechanized terror, for machines have taken over, and the disciplinary circuit keeps the inhabitants in check.

Rendall is an outlaw because he tried to strike at the very foundations of this so-called civilization. He will not yield to the tyranny of the power-mad sensuosly warped rulers of the astral body Alpin III. He and his girl friend are in danger of psychological torture worse than death.

Kim Rendall goes to the antique museum of Alphin III, which houses Starshine, an outmoded space ship. He conceives the daring plan of using the Starshine to save his girl and himself from the dictators of Alphin III. In this world, teleportation of matter has taken the place of transportation from planet to planet, and solar system to solar system, via rocket and atomic-powered vessels. Nevertheless, Kim decides to steal the last space ship from the antique museum and flee with his girl.

Thus starts this most stirring novel of love, adventure and the fight against tyranny, by the well-known author of hundreds of adult science-fiction stories.
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A fix up of all 3 Kim Rendell stories: 1. The Disciplinary Circuit (Thrilling Wonder Stories, Winter 1946)
2. The Manless Worlds (Thrilling Wonder Stories, February 1947)
3. The Boomerang Circuit (Thrilling Wonder Stories, June 1947)