Professor Odds had a theory that if we travel in a flash while we dream, we could do the same when awake. He discovered a way of lifting the mind out of its usual rut, and landed himself on another planet. A friend, Richard Trenton, followed, but he was younger and anxious to get back to the woman he’d left behind. He began to worry still more when an alien woman of great power in her land, chose him for a lover.
There was no way she was ever going to let him go. And even if a whole galaxy should separate them, she would still find a way to keep him right where she wanted him …
John Newton Chance was born in London in 1911 and educated at a private school there. He went to a Technical College with the intention of becoming a Civil Engineer, but left that to become a Quantity Surveyor. While surveying, he began to write for the BBC, and on his twenty-first birthday gave up all honest work to become a writer. The first novel was published in 1935, was hailed as a masterpiece and, like so many such, grossed more glory than gain. But it established the writer's career, which he has followed ever since with the exception of the four war years. When his war ended, he and his wife came to live in Hampshire where their first son was horn. Seventeen books later a second son arrived, and six books further on, the third came along. Among the books of the time there were a number for children, and the adult stories were published here, in America and on the Continent; some were filmed and a number broadcast.
He would eventually write over 160 books under several names. Pseudonyms used by Chance throughout his career included: John Drummond, John Lymington, David C. Newton, and Jonathan Chance. He was also one of the writers who used name the Desmond Reid which was one of the many personas responsible for the 'Sexton Blake' series that spanned decades.