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Cross the Stars
by 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) 1984 by David Drake

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

A Baen Book

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

ISBN: 0-671-57821-9

Cover art by John Berkey

First Baen printing, July 1999



Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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New York, NY 10020


Typeset by Windhaven Press, Auburn, NH
Electronic versio by WebWrights
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Printed in the United States of America


DEDICATION


To Jim Baen, for ten years of making me a better writer, and for acting as a friend.



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS


This novel began in discussions with Glenn Knight, while we were some thousands of miles apart. Jim Baen and Bernadette Bosky were of inestimable help in matters of direction. Karl Wagner-kindly old Doc Wagner-provided technical data as always. When my nerves were frazzled, Sharon Pigott spent an evening keying in the last of the rough draft and saving me a further day and a half of crushing work. And my wife, Jo, made friendly, dispassionate, enormously helpful comments on that rough.