The end of the world is nigh. . . Yeah, right! Try telling that to Gildas - then step back quick before he spits in your eye. Can’t blame him really; after all, it’s because you and those like you caused the mess in the first place out of sheer ignorance and greed that he’s forced to leave the planet of his birth for an unknown destination. As if this wasn’t bad enough he not only has a blood-score to settle with some very dangerous people but also has to keep side-stepping the highly un-subtle clutches of an amorous Amazon. On top of all this he has the misfortune to fall helplessly in love with a psychopathic killer who hates his guts for no reason. Gildas 1 (Here and Soon) follows our unlikely hero up to the time he first finds himself in space totally unprepared for the future. What happens to him from then on is anybody’s guess, though all will be made clear in the next two books of the trilogy -Gildas 2 (Out There) and Gildas 3 (Back Here).