Brian Stableford 
Wildeblood’s Empire: Daedalus Mission 3 

The colony was successful. That was evident as soon as the recontact ship Daedalus had landed. It was successful, prosperous, and everything was due to the work and genius of J. Wildeblood, biochemist and planetary leader.This world now bore the name of its benefactor. And it was truly his empire, with a grateful, hard-working people heeding every wish of his descendants.But the suspicious scientific minds of the Daedalus’s special crew were very uneasy. Was Wildeblood’s Empire all it seemed — or was there a structure invisible to the eyewhich spelled out something a lot more blood-curdling?