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Stranglers' Moon

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Stranglers' Moon
AuthorStephen Goldin
LanguageEnglish
SeriesFamily D'Alembert
GenreSpace opera, Science fiction novel
PublisherPanther Books
Publication date
1976
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages159 pp (paperback 1st UK edition)
Preceded byImperial Stars 
Followed byThe Clockwork Traitor 

Stranglers' Moon is a 1976 science fiction novel written by Stephen Goldin, the second book in the Family D'Alembert series, the first of which was expanded by Goldin from a novella by E.E. “Doc” Smith.

Plot introduction

This is the second in a series of ten Family D'Alembert novels. Set in a future where humankind has expanded to the stars but reverted to an old-style feudal system of government in an advanced technological setting, all known planets and space are ruled by an Earth-based Empire.

Plot summary

Jules and Yvette D'Alembert are a brother and sister team of aerialists in the D'Alembert family Circus of the Empire. But they are also legendary agents "Wombat" and "Periwinkle" in SOTE, "The Service of The Empire", the imperial intelligence agency, sent to investigate the disappearance of a planetary economist and his wife on a moon devoted to recreation: seemingly a vacationers' paradise...

The plot is based in part on Thuggee.