Lin Carter 
Flame of Iridar 

From out of the gloom in the dungeon where Chandar, Prince of Orin, awaited a tortured death, Sarkond the Enchanter shimmered into reality. His emerald eyes gleamed with an inhuman lustre as, with a soundless command, and without a touch, he mysteriously released the chains which bound Chandar. The prize Sarkond then offered Chandar was freedom, the price – the timeless struggle between two opposing forces… a man who used the secret powers of the universe for his own schemes… a man who vowed to stop him by his own strength and wits.Five inhabited planets had been shattered to nothingness by the Oligarchs of Brionmar. The sixth was to be Earth…