"A grand and glorious visionary epic."-Robert Silverberg *** Set in the artificial planetary system of Chalco-Doror which is no more and no less than a vast cosmic machine The Last Legends of Earth is a love story a gripping saga of struggle against alien control and an examination of the machinery of creation and destruction. Above all it is world-building of the highest and grandest order on a scale rarely seen in science fiction since the great works of Olaf Stapledon.