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DESTINY'S SHIELD
ERIC FLINT and DAVID DRAKE


This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this
book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely
coincidental.

Copyright (c) 1999 by Eric Flint & David Drake

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions
thereof in any form.

A Baen Books Original

Baen Publishing Enterprises
P.O. Box 1403
Riverdale, NY 10471

ISBN: 0-671-57872-3

Cover art by Keith Parkinson
Interior maps by Randy Asplund

First paperback printing, June 2000

Library of Congress Catalog Number 99-22046


Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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New York, NY 10020


Production by Windhaven Press, Auburn, NH
Printed in the United States of America

to Donald

COSMIC IRONY

Belisarius sensed a new presence and immediately understood its meaning. He
saw a point of light in the void. A point, nothing more, which seemed
infinitely distant. But he knew, even in the seeing, that the distance was one
of time not space.
Time opened and the future came.
The point of light erupted, surged forward. A moment later, floating before
Belisarius, was one of the Great Ones. The general understood, now, that he
would never see them fully. Too much of their structure lay in mysterious
forces which would never be seen by earthly eyes.