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THEY ALSO SERVE


To those who put on the uniform and find that it never really comes off.
I would like to thank doctors lisa Bick, M.D.,
Dan Sageser, Pharm.D., and Robert Moscoe, Pharm.D.
for their efforts to update my thirty-year-old
cellular biology. The effort was theirs. The mistakes, of course, are mine.



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ONE
RAY LONGKNIFE PUSHED himself away from his desk and levered himself up with
his canes. He scowled at his empty in-basket; now he could do the only thing he hated
worse than pushing paperтАФattend meetings. His scowl quirked into a half smile. Rita
might be right; it could be a trap to kill him.
 The newfound bureaucrat and the old soldier contended in Ray for a moment. His
glance took in the office of Wardhaven's Minister of Science and Technology; he'd spent
nearly every waking moment here for the past three months. The thick carpet, cold
marble, and rich wallpaper were left over from the previous occupant, some Unity Party
hack. Shadows on the wall showed where looted artwork had hung; Ray had immediately
returned them. The blank walls and the canes Ray hobbled on were prices of a lost war.
Ray's jaw clinched; he would win this peace.

On the desk were the only two objects in the office that were his. A double picture
frame showed Rita in his arms on their wedding day. The other frame was empty; he'd fill
it in a few months when the baby came. The second item was a lit plastic cube; suspended