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Hero!


CoverSpace opera at its finest and most action-filled, from the bestselling author of fantasy quests, epic tales and swashbuckling adventures.

Vaun, born a peasant in the stinking mud flats of Ult, a thriving colony planet, claws his way to survival and fame by becoming the toughest young officer in the Space Patrol. A veteran of the brutal training academy, he seizes opportunities as they arise, leading the first ship out against a surprise attack by the mysterious Brotherhood. He returns to a hero's welcome as the Brotherhood ship falls to the surface of his home planet in shattered pieces.

The Brotherhood is elsewhere unstoppable, though, as neighboring plants, one by one, fall silent, conquered. And then, the Patrol detects a huge spacecraft launched from one of the now-silent worlds and headed for Ult. Facing a challenge greater than he can truly hope to overcome, Vaun nonetheless sets out to save Ult for a second time . . .



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Dedicated to
Robert Runté
for labors
amid the alien com.

Acknowledgments

I am very grateful to Dan Cragg for reading the manuscript and helping me with terminology and procedures for the Space Patrol. The book was greatly improved by his efforts. Where I chose to ignore his advice, it was to emphasize how far Ultian Command has degenerated from a military force toward a hereditary aristocracy. (Warrior castes have evolved often enough in the last five thousand years that I am certain they will recur in future—Vaun would call them a design fault in human nature.) Thus any military absurdities remaining in the text are my own doing, and deliberate.

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