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Retief, The Consul for the Terrestrial States finds himself newly appointed to Groac. His determination to get to the bottom of the mystery surrounding the formation of the new Graocan government gets him into trouble. Will he find out what happened to the Terran prisoners. What happened to the missing spaceship? His ways are unorthodox.Will it be enough to help him get the answers?
2) The Floater
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They called it "the basketball" because of it's shape. It was a sort of mechanical embryo and men entered to test their limits.
Normal human beings can take a couple of hours of it usually. They like it. Every human being to some extent likes to return to the womb. But after a couple of hours most human beings start going to pieces, short-circuiting. Except Barton...
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"Rig ship for the snowbank orbit! Snowbank orbit with stinger! Mr. Grunfeld, raise the fleet."
Grunfiled saw two viridian flares flashing with a bright green ring like a mist halo. "Ambush," he said. "At least two cruisers."
They were approaching Uranus with the faint hope there were survivors from the First Uranus Expedition. What will they find if they can get past the Enemy?
4) Die, Shadow!
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industrialist David Greaves invested his personal fortune toward building the Defiance. Now he was battered and tossed inside the the crazy, tumbling spaceship. There in the misty shroud of Venus, he self-administered a sleep inducing anesthetic. He awoke to the kiss of a beautiful woman in the shadow of hideous gargoyles and was hailed as a god.
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Retief is heading to the technologically backward double planets called Jorgensen's Worlds with a warning and a plan to thwart the Soetti's planned invasion. Everyone he meets on the way is determined to stand in his way, except Chip. Together Retief and Chip land on The Frozen Planet and are surprised by what they learn.
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