Signet December 1985 first printing paperback (hardcover came out earlier the same year from Phantasia Press.) Cover by Kevin Eugene Johnson, 252 pages, $2.95 cover price. Condition is Fine (-): tight and very square with flat spine; age tanning is mild and uniform. A clean copy that looks new/unread. Stamp on first page and page 85 - from the reserves of a defunct SF library; extra stamps on top, side & bottom page blocks (that's why I downgrade from "Fine" to "Fine minus.")

Eros Descending, third in the "Tales of the Velvet Comet" series by Mike Resnick, well-known SF Fan and prolific author. After his first 3 novels in the late Sixties, Resnick wrote a couple-hundred (!) non-SF books under various names, then came back to SF in the Eighties, and has more than 70 SF books since then.

[The back-cover copy]: THE VELVET COMET WAS A SYNOMYM FOR DECADENCE THROUGHOUT THE GALAXY - AND THE REV. DOCTOR THOMAS GOLD WAS OUT TO SHUT IT DOWN...
The Velvet Comet, orbiting Deluros VIII, was the most exclusive, extravagant, and exotic pleasure-dome ever created, and Thomas Gold, the thundering leader of a fanatical religious sect, was denouncing it as the new Sodom and Gomorrah. Then he discovered the beautiful, innocent, elfin aliens, who made their home and plied their trade aboard the Comet, and his crusade took a whole new turn. Gold declared himself the saviour of these poor "enslaved" beings and began a holy crusade of liberation that would only end with the Comet's destruction or his...