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Twins Tom and Greg Hunter haven't spoken in a year, but the news from the Asteroid Belt drags them into the same room. Their father, Roger Hunter, has died alone between Mars and Jupiter when the fuel tank on his scooter exploded. The U.N. calls it an acciden…
In seven hours the Seventh Star Hotel, a fading pleasure resort floating where three shipping lanes cross, is scheduled to blow up with twelve thousand people aboard. Reetal Destone knows it, and when she spots Quillan's name on the guest list, she calls him…
Brion Brandd has just won the Twenties, a month of brutal contests that makes him champion of his world, when a man named Ihjel drags him out of his hospital bed. Ihjel has a job only Brion can do. On Dis, a scorched desert planet, humans have adapted to the…
Terra has spent a century bottled up by the decaying Centauran Empire, and the SRB computers finally say the odds are turning. Security Commissioner Reinhart is ready for war, and Peter Sherikov's labs under the Urals are close to the weapon that could break…
Gefty Rammer took the charter for the money and didn't ask questions. Now his tough old semifreighter, the Silver Queen, has been knocked clean out of normal space into a black void where the instruments make no sense. His client, Mr. Maulbow, is unconscious,…
Hunting a Martian is illegal now, which is exactly why Riordan wants to do it. A shipping magnate and big-game hunter who has bagged trophies from Mercury to Pluto, he comes to Port Armstrong for the one quarry he has never taken. The trader Wisby points him…
Earth is a backwater now, one planet-wide game farm where rich outworlders come to shoot beasts imported from five dozen worlds. Gilbert, eighteen and already a guide in the swamps of Lewsanna, has led plenty of jaded clients. Mulveen is the worst. After a th…
In the Deathlands, every stranger is a killer until proven otherwise, and most of them prove it. Ray Baker, bald, scarred and pushing forty, is a hundred miles from Nowhere when a blue-eyed young woman with a steel hook for a right hand falls into step beside…
Somewhere on Earth lives a telepath who can kill a man, take his face and his place, and fool even his closest friends. He has already shown what happens to people who go looking for him: a hotel blown apart, a city's water poisoned, a liner lost. Arlene Rolf…
