The Glass Cage

by Diane Detzer

Overview

a novel of the Intergalactic League

Garth Oberlung. The Wizard. Carnival performer extraordinaire.

Elizabeth Marvin. An unregistered Perceptive. Low classification and unemployable.

Confined to a permeable chamber for his very survival, Garth has driven himself to build a Carnival show unlike any other in the galaxy. Every night The Wizard risks his life to the astonishment of audiences throughout the Intergalactic League. Every performance he dances with death – a climax someone in his troupe is determined to ensure.

Entranced by the driven and charismatic Carny, Elizabeth spends all of her time by his side. His dark visions frighten her. His desperate desire for one true friend calls to her. The Wizard wears his isolation like armor, for who could love a man in a glass cage?

First publication in any form since 1962!

Product Details

BN ID:	2940185636428
Publisher:	Critical Press Media
Publication date:	03/27/2024
Series:	The Intergalactic League , #4
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	769,977
File size:	687 KB

About the Author

Diane Detzer (1930-1992) earned her first author’s credit at the age of 9 in The Ridgefield Press (Fall, 1939) in Ridgefield, Connecticut. The article was titled “Follow the Fleet”; while the newspaper and article were not archived, it is likely that she wrote about her father’s Naval commission. In May of 1938, her father, August J. Detzer, had been transferred to sea duty as Radio Officer on the staff of Vice Admiral Adolphus Andrews, the latest in a series of Navy postings and transfers that resulted in the family regularly moving to a new home on or near his base posting. Diane and her family would eventually join her father at Pearl Harbor, where he served as Commanding Officer of the USS Dewey until January, 1942. Diane continued to write newspaper articles until the age of 16.

In 1958, Diane’s short story, “The Tomb” was published in Science Fiction Stories. Her first novel, “The Sea People” was published by Avalon Books in 1959 under the pen name Adam Lukens. Over the next four years, Avalon Books published six additional novels by Diane writing under the Adam Lukens name. In 1968, Avalon published Diane’s final two novels, one under her own name, and one under the pen name Jorge de Reyna.

Apart from the journalistic work in her teens, Diane only ever published science fiction stories. The novels generally fall into the genre of Space Opera, and her heroes are generally underdogs who champion the cause of the unfortunate and those rejected by society. All of her published stories share the same overall setting, an Intergalactic League of worlds where a civilized and prosperous veneer conceals societal flaws and failings. Diane’s works have been referenced in several studies on Utopian societies in literature and in a study of influential werewolf fiction.