iktaPOP Media proudly presents Leigh Brackett's classic libertarian space opera! *** Michael Trehearne sensed his difference from other men, but he little knew he was a changeling of the only race able to conquer the stars! Leigh Brackett's 1951 novel, which first appeared in Startling Stories, not only prefigures books like Alfred Bester's The Stars, My Destination and movies like Joss Whedon's Serenity, it also makes a strong case for open source software and free culture in general, decades before either of those terms were coined.