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A Del Rey┬о Book
Published by Ballantine Books

Copyright ┬й 1992 by Thranx, Inc.
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Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by
Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New
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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 91-73136

ISBN 0-345-37575-0

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First Hardcover Edition: April 1992
First Mass Market Edition: June 1993
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For Harry E. Fischer,
Able-bodied seaman and fellow voyager.
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Chapter One

By the time he was twelve years old, Ranji knew he liked to kill. His parents,
naturally, encouraged him.
By the tinge of the Trials he had added four years of experience, education, and
maturity to a great deal of additional height, weight, and strength. With these
came confidence in his abilities, a soft-spoken assurance much admired and
valued by the rest of the soldier-trainees in his age group.
There was no jealousy among them, that being an alien concept shared by the
multitude of monsters whose ultimate goal was the destruction of civilization.
Why would anyone be jealous of him? Were they not all striving for the sane end,
seeking enthusiastically the same results? Achievement among friends was to be
applauded, not en-vied. Who would not wish to have a soldier more skilled in the