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JANJA WASN'T THE STRANGEST PIECE OF CARGO HE'D CARRIED, BUT SHE WAS THE MOST
VALUABLE. Captain Jonuta of the spaceship Coronet stood In the hatchway
yelling at his crewman. "It wasn't enough that you fried the male with her,
you had to shove her in here with the others. Youte lucky they haven't torn
her apart, you underbrained sisterslicer. Look other! She's... white!'' The
chagrined crewman moved forward, toward the small, pale girl He reached out
for her-and she pounced. In an Instant her fingers closed around his
throat. This Is no scared little prey Jonuta realized. She actually means to
kill him. He matched her speed and pried her loose from the limp crewman,
bending her arm back and nearly breaking it. He held her In a grip of iron,
debating his next move. "If I release you," he said, "what will you
do?" "Whatever i can," Janja said. SPACEWAYS #1 OF ALIEN BONDAGE #2
CORUNDUM'S WOMAN #3 ESCAPE FROM MACHO #4 SATANA ENSLAVED #5 MASTER OF
MISFIT #6 PURRFECT PLUNDER BERKLEY BOOKS, NEW YORK The poem Scarlet Hills
copyright (c) 1982 by Ann Morris; used by permission of the author SPACEWAYS
#1 OF ALIEN BONDAGE Copyright (c) 1982 by John Cleve Cover illustration
copyright (c) 1982 by PBJ Books, Inc. formerly PE1 Books, Inc. All rights
reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system
or transmitted in any form by an electronic, mechanical, photocopying,
recording means or otherwise without prior written permission of the
publisher Published simultaneously in the United States and Canada by PBJ
Books, Inc. formerly PEI Books, inc. Distributed by Berkley Publishing
Corporation, 200 Madison Avenue, New York, New York S0016. Printed in the
United States of America. ISBN: 0-425-06061-6 First printing May 1982. Second
printing September 1982. The name "BERKLEY" and the stylized "B" with design
are trademarks . belonging to Berkley Publishing Corporation. A: All planets
are not shown. B: Map is not to scale, because of the vast distances between
stars. SCARLET HILLS Alas, fair ones, my time has come. I must depart your
lovely home- Seek the bounds of this galaxy To find what lies
beyond. (chorus) Scarlet hills and amber skies, Gentlebeings with loving
eyes; All these I leave to search for a dream That will cure the wand'rer in
me. You say it must be glamorous For those who travel out through space. You
know not the dark, endless night Nor the solitude we face. (reprise chorus) I
know not of my journey's end Nor the time nor toll it will have me spend. But
I must see what I've never seen And know what I've never known. Scarlet hills
and amber skies, Gentlebeings with loving eyes; All these I leave to search
for a dream That will cure the wand'rer in me. -Ann Morris Let us each forsake
every other kind of knowledge and seek one thing only . . . to learn and
discern between good and evil. Plato, The Republic Somewhere on the
Spaceways Captain Jonuta of spaceship Coronet stood at the con, nodding over
computer display and scanner readouts. Good, good. The planet that Coronet
orbited was on the Protected list. Its inhabitants did not even have iron,
much less technology, and non-tech planets were to be left alone. So they were
Protected. Except that there wasn't a sign of a law enforcement craft within a
million kilometers. Jonuta smiled. Good, good. He was no friend of policers.