Master if Paxwax - Part One of the Story of the Gardener
Author: Phillip Mann
 
Pawl Paxwax was the second son of the Fifth Family in a human empire that had enslaved the Galaxy by a policy of alien genocide and whose dynastic Eleven Families each continued to rule its own vast realm.
But beneath the surface of the dead world of Sanctum, surviving intelligent aliens gathered, diverse lifeforms united in their desire to strike back at the barbarous humanity that had laid waste their civilisations.
When Pawl's father and brother died in quick succession, he found himself thrust unwillingly into a position of supreme power. He didn't know that the aliens planned to use him to engineer the downfall of the human empire. Pawl was not mechanically minded. He was a Gardener . . .
 
GRAFTON BOOKS 1988 EDITION
ISBN: 9780586200391