Chapter 1 Digitally transcribed for the Gardner Francis Fox Adventure Library HE HAD NO HOME. He was a footloose wanderer. An adventurer, riding a roan horse down into the valley of the Oglio River in this early fall of the year 1426. His closely cropped yellow hair was fitted with a steel cap, and a leather…
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CHAPTER THREE Digitally transcribed for the Gardner Francis Fox Adventure Library Click here for an Amazon Kindle eBook He was accepted into the camaraderie of the thieves’ kitchen without question. To the hardened criminals who had been abandoned on Dakkan planet, he was just another face. Than Lear had a need for him, and that was…
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ONE Digitally transcribed for the Gardner Francis Fox Adventure Library Click here for an Amazon Kindle eBook IT WAS Bran the Wanderer who found death. Literally, death: the reason why men must die. He did not understand what it was he found, at first. Few men would, for it was only a metallic machine set in…
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CHAPTER TWO Digitally transcribed for the Gardner Francis Fox Adventure Library Click here for an Amazon Kindle eBook Thalikar was a pile of ancient masonry. Broken columns jutted into the sky, black and sinister. Here and there a lintel connected them, giving way to a dome that once had been painted in gay and vivid tints…
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Chapter THREE Digitally transcribed for the Gardner Francis Fox Adventure Library Click here for an Amazon Kindle eBook They came at me with their flesh aroused by the doses of imsak they had taken. The taller man, whose ghendureh came just below his navel, threw himself on top of me, sinking his fingers into my buttocks…
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CHAPTER ONE Digitally transcribed for the Gardner Francis Fox Adventure Library Click here for an Amazon Kindle eBook He was the only living thing on an otherwise dead planet. Carrick stood with his head tilted back, watching the silver monster that was the intergalactic cruiser Starshine of Spica lift off-planet. Vaguely he was aware of the…
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Chapter Three Digitally transcribed for the Gardner Francis Fox Adventure Library Click here for an Amazon Kindle eBook Dead she lay, unmoving, with one arm flung limply over the edge of the altar, her eyes wide and staring upward at the low dome above that was marked with strange and alien signs and sigils. Her black…
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CHAPTER THREE Digitally transcribed for the Gardner Francis Fox Adventure Library Click here for an Amazon Kindle eBook Edward, Prince of Wales, was about to learn his first great lesson in the arts of love: when the rival wins, show no sorrow, for the love you bear your lady. But these were only words, and this…
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Chapter Three Digitally transcribed for the Gardner Francis Fox Adventure Library Click here for an Amazon Kindle eBook for 99¢ MARTIN CHANDOS woke to the thud of a distant saker. For a moment he lay bemused, turning to the woman beside him in the little bunk, her dark eyes open and sober, intent on his. The…
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Chapter One Digitally transcribed for the Gardner Francis Fox Adventure Library Click here for an Amazon Kindle eBook for 99¢ The key turned in the lock and the door opened on the room he had not seen for more than four years. The low ceiling, slanting slightly where it reached out toward the gable window, the…