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There were places for four beside the pilot, spaced around the circular cockpit. Wyatt strapped himself into the seat nearest the girl. He imagined the take-off would be something special, and he was…
It had been night, and suddenly it was day. There was no twilight zone, no period of transition. The craft shot out of the Earth's shadow into the full blaze of the sun, and it was like somebody…
Here in the windowed bridge, the background was all stars. Clouds of stars, rivers of them, chains and globes of them, and drawn across them here and there like curtains of the most glorious fire eve…
The man was obviously sick, probably dying, painfully, spasmodically, and not from natural causes. He was a fairly young man, younger than Makvern, older than Brinna. He was strapped onto a kind of f…
Instead of cowering against the door or trying to get out, as they expected him to do, Wyatt sprang straight for the man in the Levis. He was easy to get at because he was leading the others by a pac…
Brinna's face was now absolutely white, with her red mouth showing on it like a smear of blood. She dropped her hand to the grip of her own stunner. She almost made it but not quite. Makvern hit…
It took Wyatt quite a long minute to realize that he was still alive and not even badly hurt. He didn't know about Brinna, but when he pushed her off him he was relieved to see her move. He scra…
Makvern said sharply, "Hold your fire. They're ours." It was a minute before Wyatt took that in, and by that time someone had lifted the ten-ton weight of No-Name off his back and he w…
