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Star Hunter, by Andre Alice Norton

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Title: Star Hunter

Author: Andre Alice Norton

Release Date: August 21, 2006 [EBook #19090]

Language: English

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STAR HUNTER

ANDRE NORTON

ACE BOOKS, INC.

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New York, N.Y. 10036

Copyright, 1961, by Ace Books, Inc.

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STAR HUNTER

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Nahuatl's larger moon pursued the smaller, greenish globe of its companion across a cloudless sky in which the stars made a speckled pattern like the scales of a huge serpent coiled around a black bowl. Ras Hume paused at the border of scented spike-flowers on the top terrace of the Pleasure House to wonder why he thought of serpents. He understood. Mankind's age-old hatred, brought from his native planet to the distant stars, was evil symbolized by a coil in a twisted, belly-path across the ground. And

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