Spartan planet
A. Bertram Chandler (Author), John Berkey (Illustrator)
"And they named the planet Sparta. Long ago the humans had settled this planet--too long ago for anyone to remember. Slowly the civilization had developed, and now it was complete. A civilization of war and violence. A civilization of crude pleasures. A civilization in which human beings were produced by birth machines--and women were unknown. It was a civilization whose terrible secret only the doctor-priests knew--a secret that a desperate man named Brasidus decided to penetrate, even at the risk of something worse than death..."--Back cover
Print Book, English, 1969
Dell, New York, 1969