A World is Born, by Leigh Douglass Brackett

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Title: A World is Born

Author: Leigh Douglass Brackett

Release Date: September 8, 2007 [eBook #22544]

Language: English

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A WORLD IS BORN

LEIGH BRACKETT

[Illustration]

The first ripples of blue fire touched Dio's men. Bolts of it fastened on gun-butts, and knuckles. Men screamed and fell. Jill cried out as he tore silver ornaments from her dress.

Mel Gray flung down his hoe with a sudden tigerish fierceness and stood erect. Tom Ward, working beside him, glanced at Gray's Indianesque profile, the yo

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