Eloise: The Dumarest Saga Book 12

Eloise (Dumarest 12) by E.C. Tubb

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This book opens with the Cyber Prime contemplating the Dumarest Problem, specifically how to locate him and win the Affinity Twin secret. Despite the Cyclan ability to pontificate endlessly about their commitment to logic and reason, and their hope of being wired into a neural network when their bodies deteriorate, Dumarest's randomness and luck (and more than a small bit of the author's thumb on the scale) had continued to frustrate them. But this time they have him, they know he is heading toward the planet Tynar.

For his part, Dumarist is on a ship heading to Tynar. The crew has intuited that Dumarest would be far more valuable as a prize for whoever he is fleeing. But then the ship falls into a warp and crashlands on one of the strangest cultures of the Dumareverse.

Dumarest finds himself in Instone where people undergo a lottery where they disappear if their number is too low. The town is controlled by something called Camolsaer that relies on robots called Monitors to run the town. Dumarest, of course, sees this as an untenable situation, particularly since he has made enemies and it seems likely that the lottery can be rigged.

Will Dumarest escape Instone?

Will some scantily clad buxom babe confess her love for him?

Will the Cyclan realize that he's been thrown a million light-years in a random direction?

This is but Book 12 and there are another 14 books remaining.