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CONTENTS


THE QUEEN OF ZAMBA

PERPETUAL MOTION




Copyright ┬й 1977 by L. Sprague de Camp
All rights reserved.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 77-82627
ISBN 0-89559-006-9
Printed in the United States of America
The Queen of Zamba, copyright ┬й 1949
by Street & Smith Publications, Inc.;
copyright renewed 1976 by L. Sprague de Camp.
Perpetual Motion, copyright ┬й 1950 by Columbia Publications, Inc.
Cover and interior artwork by Jack Gaughan


FOREWORD
THE QUEEN OF ZAMBA
I wrote this novel from November 1948 to January 1949, and it was published as a serial in Astounding
Science Fiction for August and September 1949. In 1954, Ace Books bought the paperback rights and
published the story as half of an Ace Double, the other half being Clifford D. Simak's Ring Around the
Sun. Donald A. Wollheim, then editor at Ace, changed my title to Cosmic Manhunt.
Don also insisted upon another change. In the orig-inal version, the hero's side-kick was a Chinese, Chuen
(rhymes with "one.") The Ace publication took place soon after the signing of the armistice that ended the
Korean War. The Chinese were then un-popular because of their intervention in this war, so I was asked to
change Chuen's nationality. After some argument (Wollheim wanted to make him an (East) Indian, which I
said would have been all wrong) we compromised by making Chuen an Okinawan, Yano. The Ace version
was reprinted in 1966 by Roberts & Vintner, Ltd., of London, as A Planet Called Krishna.
The present version is the original Astounding one, except that I have made minor editorial changes, mostly
in punctuation, spelling, &c, in line with my present canons of style.

L. Sprague de Camp




THE QUEEN OF ZAMBA
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Victor Hasselborg shook the reins and spoke to his aya: "Hao, Faroun!" The animal swung its head anc
blinked reproachfully at him from under its horns then started to move. The carriage wheels crunched on