The Puppeteer

"The Puppet Master" is a fantastic novel by Henry Lion Oldie, the first book of the cycle “Oikumene,” a genre of science fiction.

Luciano Borgotta, nicknamed Tartaglia, is a person with a difficult fate.

A young maker of marionettes from a backwater planet Borgo. Nevorpast, a master of contact impersonation, who has traveled with tours across half of the Galaxy. He sat in the notorious Meigile prison on primordial Kemchu; later—junior executioner. Director of the “Vertoep” theater, who led a group of serf peasants of Count Maltsov, a landlord-philanthropist. A suspect in a woodon resort in Kitta; a slave of the guard-legate Guy Octavian Tumidus, a rower in the galley’s rowing compartment.

What next?

Stars don’t give answers.