Run for the Stars — Random House

The Kyben demolished Deald's World and their armada was heading for Earth. All that stood in their way was a man on Deald's World named Benno Tallant, about as lousy a candidate for hero as one could imagine: junkie, looter, coward, betrayer. The retreating Earth forces decide to make him the last man on Deald's World. They surgically implant a cataclysmic bomb in his body, turn him loose, and let the Kyben hunt him down.

See Benno Run. Run, Benno, Run Like Hell.

Harlan Ellison has written or edited more than seventy-five books, over 1,700 stories, essays and articles, and dozens of screenplays and teleplays. He has won numerous awards including the Edgar, Hugo, Nebula, Bradbury, and Stoker - as well as two "Listen Up" Awards and an Audie for Best Solo Narration. He lives in California.