Ice Crown

SUMMARY: Norton ranks unrivaled as the most popular science fiction/fantasy writer of all time, and ROC Books is delighted to be able to reissue her classic, bestselling tales. Ice Crown is the story of Offlas Keil and his neice Roane's quest to unlock the valuable Forerunner power that resides in the famous Ice Crown of the planet Clio. A closed planet is visited by a Survey team, which consists of a young lady, her handsome and totally loathsome cousin and their uncle. The reason the planet was closed was before they were overthrown, the empire rulers were experimenters on a large scale with humans. They would brain-wipe them and implant false memories of their own choosing, then place them on planets to follow the lifestyles selected for them. Such was the world the young lady and the other team members found and she was drawn to breaking regulations to save a princess, thus making her a target for he uncle and cousin's revenge. She is lucky the evil ones were overturned...but their mind controlling machines still functioned. A young girl accompanies an expedition to a planet settled centuries before by colonists who were left there to develop as best they could after their minds were cleared of all previous memories.