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For Sheryl, Lindsey, and Tara
Baen Books by JAMES P. HOGAN

Inherit the Stars
The Genesis Machine
The Gentle Giants of Ganymede
The Two Faces of Tomorrow
Thrice Upon a Time
Giants' Star
Voyage from Yesteryear
Code of the Lifemaker
The Proteus Operation
Endgame Enigma
The Mirror Maze
The Infinity Gambit
Entoverse
The Multiplex Man
Realtime Interrupt
Minds, Machines & Evolution
The Immortality Option
Paths to Otherwhere
Bug Park
Star Child
Rockets, Redheads & Revolution
Cradle of Saturn
The Legend That Was Earth
Martian Knightlife
The Anguished Dawn
Kicking the Sacred Cow (nonfiction)
Mission to Minerva


PROLOGUE

By the fourth decade of the twenty-first century, the nations of Earth had
finally resolved or learned to live with the differences that had made so much
of their history a story of exploitation and conflict. A major expression of
the new spirit of cooperation and optimism toward the future took the form of
a joint program of Solar System exploration carried out under the direction of
a Space Arm formed as part of the UN. With its redirection of the resources