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CHAPTER 1 To anyone who glanced casually inside the detention room the young man sitting there did not seem very formidable.

Chapter I PERFUMED PLANET Dane Thorson, Cargo-master-apprentice of the Solar Queen, Galactic Free Trader spacer, Terra registry, stood in the middle of the ship's cramped bather while Rip Shanno...

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1 Lotus World There was a shading of rose in the pearl arch of sky, deepening at the horizon meeting of sea and air in a rainbow tint of cloud.

I Nahuatl's larger moon pursued the smaller, greenish globe of its companion across a cloudless sky in which the stars made a speckled pattern like the scales of a huge serpent coiled around a bl...

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ANDREW NORTH _She was the guardian of the worlds, but HER world was dead._ Even here, on the black terrace before the forgotten mountain retreat of Asti, it was possible to smell the dank stenc...

_The cause for which you have so long and so manfully struggled, and for which you have braved dangers, endured privations and sufferings, and made so many sacrifices, is today hopeless...._ _Civi...

CHAPTER I THE RALESTONES COME HOME "Once upon a time two brave princes and a beautiful princess set out to make their fortunes--" began the dark-haired, dark-eyed boy by the roadster.

_A COMPLETE NOVELETTE_ BY ANDREW NORTH _"Send the Black Throne to dust; conquer the Black Ones, and bring the Daughter from the Caves of Darkness."