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Other books by Douglas Hill available from Macmillan Children's Books
Galactic Warlord Day of the Starwind Planet of the Warlord
and for younger children
Penelope's Pendant
Penelope's Protest
Penelope's Peril
DOUGLAS HILL
Deathwinc
OVER
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macmillan children's books
First published 1980 by Victor Gollancz Ltd
This edition published 1996 by Macmillan Children's Books
a division of Macmillan Publishers Ltd
25 Eccleston Place, London SWiW 9NF
and Basingstoke
Associated companies throughout the world
ISBN o 330 26446 X Copyright ┬й Douglas Hill 1980
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with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
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For Marilyn
PART ONE
REbEls of
CIUSTER
1
The тАвwatcher among the rocks had not noticed the point of light when it had
first appeared, high in the pale yellow sky. Only when it had fallen further,
enlarging, brightening, did the watcher's one huge eye glimpse it.
The watcher's six arms halted their activity. Within its cold brain messages
were relayed and received. Silently it moved backwards, into a shadowed cleft
among the rocks, its eye fixed unblinkingly on the hurtling object in the sky.
In seconds the object revealed itself as a metal capsule, man-sized and
coffin-shaped. It fell bathed in fire as the atmosphere flared along its metal