Ace (1st printing, G-709) 1968 paperback. Cover by Jeff Jones(!), 159 pages, 50 cent cover price. Condition is Fine: tight and square with flat spine, age tanning is very mild and uniform - no other wear; edges still have some of that "new book" sharpness. No stamps, marks or writing - a very clean copy.

Bedlam Planet - Everything about the planet revolving about Sigma Draconis seemed to indicate that here was a world that could be made into a second Earth. It was fertile and lacked native inhabitant and dangerous beasts. Then what was troubling the pioneer colony that had landed and set up shop there? As Dennis Malone phrased the problem: "What armor do I wear against reason? We calculate, we analyse, we deduce, and we think we have planned for all eventualities. But what impulses lurk below the surface of the mind, which never could be allowed for in advance because it took the impact of an alien planet to trigger them?" Although Brunner's Total Eclipse uses the same stellar locus (Sigma Draconis) as this book - the 2 books are unrelated.