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Compiled by Hank Davis First Edition 2009 Baen Books Riverdale ISBN 9781439132944 Trade paperback Cover illustration by David Seeley xii+494 pages Price: $14.00 Notes Part 2 of The Technic Civilization Saga. Contains:
Also includes High Profits and High Adventure, an introduction by Hank Davis and Chronology of Technic Civilization, a timeline by Sandra Miesel. The stories are numbered to reflect the reading order suggested by Sandra Miesel's timeline. An alternative chronology has been suggested by Sean M Brooks. The image opposite and the blurb below are from the first printing of the 2010 paperback edition, ISBN 9781439133446. Cover illustration by David Seeley.
Publisher’s Blurb – Lower Cover
The Polesotechnic League of star traders was prospering, and Nicholas Van Rijn, its most flamboyant member, was prospering most of all. But not all League members played fair when trading, nor did some of the non-human races of the galaxy object to dirty tricks. And Van Rijn could not be everywhere at once to flummox his competitors and adversaries. Fortunately, he could rely on his crack team of star traders.
David Falkayn: Team leader and younger son of a baronial house on the planet Hermes, he commands the starship
Chee Lan: Covered with silky white fur on the outside, and with a short-fused temper on the inside.
Adzel: Looking like a centaurian dragon, he's as imperturbable as Chee Lan is high-strung, and abhors violence, though he has no problem defending himself, or his comrades.
Muddlehead: The computer who handles most of the operations of the ship, and often shows initiative at the most unexpected times. Now if only it didn't sound so smug when it wins at poker. . . .
Praise for Poul Anderson:
"One of science fiction's giants." – Arthur C. Clarke
"Poul Anderson immerses you in the future. . . . Anderson puts you into a whole new world." – Larry Niven
"Anderson has produced more milestones in contemporary science fiction and fantasy than any one man is entitled to." – Stephen R. Donaldson |
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