Fourteen people arrive on the strange planet of Delmark-O - thirteen of them arrived there by the usual authorities; one got there by praying. The planet is vast and largely unexplored, populated mostly by gelatinous cube-shaped beings that give cryptic advise in the form of anagrams. Deities can be spoken to directly via a series of prayer amplifiers and transmitters, altough they may not be happy about it. And a mysterious building in the distance draws all the colonists to it.
But the newcomers have no idea why they are there - and no way of escaping. To make matters worse, they found that even prayer is useless; for on Delmak-O, God is either absent or intent on destroying His creations. And then the first murder takes place...
Publicado em português como "Labirinto da Morte".
Ficção científica / Literatura Estrangeira