Diadem From The Stars by Jo Clayton
A Novel of the Diadem
Paperback
Published by DAW
5th Printing dated 1977
CONDITION - VFN-
GRADING NOTES - Some light wear to all edges. Light crease mark parallel to spine on front and back cover. Tanning to inside front and back cover
ISSUE NOTES -
Far out among the stars the masterminds of the spider people had placed their mightiest mysteries in the scientific device called the diadem. And when that coronet was stolen, they were prepared to pursue it throughout eternity
The thief crashed among the nomads of Jaydugar, a semi-barbarian world and the diadem found its way into the hands - and on the skull - of the girl Aleytys
She herself was a strange one - daughter of a sky wanderer, outcast among the people who raised her out of fear and awe. And the diadem was to prove both her bane and her treasure. For she could not remove it once it had sunk its electronic web into her brain and nervous system - and she did not know how to control the powers that were contained within it
Yet every moment she wore it, she would be a target for the vengeance of the spider race and the avarice of a thousand worlds