Eros Descending (Tales of the Velvet Comet Book 3)

A religious fanatic declares war on an intergalactic bordello in this space opera by five-time Hugo Award–winning author Mike Resnick. The Velvet Comet is the Vainmill Syndicate's premier pleasure palace, orbiting Deluros VIII and catering to the wealthy and famous. Reverend Thomas Gold, leader of a fanatical religious sect and vocal opponent of the Syndicate, arrives as a guest with a hidden agenda: to shut down the hedonistic establishment. When Doctor Gold encounters the Comet's two most popular employees—Titania and Oberon, beautiful blue-skinned Andrican aliens—he becomes convinced of their enslavement. He launches a crusade for their liberation, setting in motion a conflict that will determine whether the Comet survives or Gold himself falls.