Outworlder

Carter projected his History of the Great Imperium as a series of eight to twelve stand-alone novels collectively covering thousands of years of an invented future history of the galaxy.^[2] Of these, only three, The Man Without a Planet (1966), Star Rogue (1970), and Outworlder (1971) were published, though critic John Clute includes two additional Carter science fiction novels, The Star Magicians (1966) and Tower of the Medusa (1969) in the series.^[3] According to a note by the author in the back of the present volume, while issued last, is chronologically the earliest of the three published works, preceding The Man Without a Planet.

John Clute, briefly assessing Carter's science fiction corpus, notes that his "History of the Great Imperium sequence ... adheres moderately closely to sf protocols and to the 'feel' of sf."^[3]

The novel was reviewed by Fred Patten in Locus no. 87, June 25, 1971, and Chris Lowder in Shadow, September 1971.^[1]