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"... I came up here to Get Involved. Think I haven't missed you, sexpot? And
come to think, I did come to relieve you, in a way. Need relief, Quindy?" She
rolled her eyes. "Why do I put up with this man-love him, even?" Because I
know what you need, he thought, and love to provide it, That's wonderful for
us both- doing well by doing good! He said: "Because we're both sensual
animals who love to screw and love it rough and besides I think you're the
most beautiful and the sexiest ship-handling genius along the spaceways. And
besides tha-" "Oh, talk talk talk. That's enough talk. Come down
here." SPACEWAYS #1 OF ALIEN BONDAGE #2 CORUNDUM'S WOMAN #3 ESCAPE FROM
MACHO #4 SATANA ENSLAVED #5 MASTER OF MISFIT #6 PURRFECT PLUNDER #7 THE
MANHUNTRESS #8 UNDER TWIN SUNS #9 IN QUEST OF
QALARA PLAYBOY PAPERBACKS SPACEWAYS #9: IN QUEST OF QALARA Copyright (c)
1983 by John Cleve Cover illustration copyright (c) 1983 by PBJ Books, Inc.,
formerly PEI 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 author. Published simultaneously in the United
States and Canada by PBJ Books, Inc., formerly PEI Books, Inc., 200 Madison
Avenue, New York, New York 10016. Printed in the United States of America. The
poem Scarlet Hills copyright (c) 1982 by Ann Morris; used by permission of the
author. ISBN: 0-867-21236-5 First printing January 1983 for Sharon Jams, for
seventy mental reasons If at first you do not succeed, Sunmother counsels,
then try again. Only thus can one be worthy of the spaceways. -Captain
Janjaglaya If at first you don't succeed, it's been said, try and try again.
Noble words, to which I would add these: If you try again and still don't
succeed-whistle and pretend you were doing something else all
along. -Trafalgar Cuw 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 Prologue The four men hand-carried each of the
seven big crates down the umbilical tunnel from the ship and onto
Fran-jistation Two. That was unusual, but hardly sinister. All the crates were
checked past station scanners and thermo-sensors. Only one person on the big
wheel-shaped space station noted aloud that the boxes resembled coffins. They
were not. Oddly, all seven were several times wrapped with hollow tubing of a
bright canary color. Apparently it served as cord or cable. Who knew why those
crazies on Terasaki used hollow duraples rather than stiktite binding or even