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Slaving was not legal everywhere, but TransGalactic Watch understood the facts
of economic life. As long as the raids were not on member planets or too
blatant, TGW looked the other way. Piracy was different. Since property was
more difficult to obtain than people (who reproduced automatically) TGW took a
dim view of any activity that hindered the legitimate acquisition of wealth.
Trade was sacred. Life was cheap. 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 #10 THE YOKE OF SHEN #11 THE ICEWORLD CONNECTION #12
STAR SLAVER BERKLEY BOOKS, NEW YORK The poem Scarlet Hills copyright (c)
1982 by Ann Morris; used by permission of the author. SPACEWAYS #12: STAR
SLAVER A Berkley Book / published by arrangement with the author PRINTING
HISTORY Berkley edition / July 1983 All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 1983 by
John Cleve. Cover illustration by Ken Barr. This book may not be reproduced in
whole or in part, by mimeograph or any other means, without permission. For
information address: The Berkley Publishing Group, 200 Madison Avenue, New
York, New York, 10016. ISBN: 0-425-06074-8 A BERKLEY BOOK " TM 757,375 The
name "BERKLEY" and the stylized "B" with design are trademarks belonging to
Berkley Publishing Corporation. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA to
Kelly P. Cast, M.D. A: AH 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 One: ZO 1 Three things are necessary for the
effecting of Witchcraft: the devil, a witch, and the Divine permission. -Part
1, Question 12, Malleus Maleficarum: Kramer & Sprenger Candila was bathing in
the river just below Daresslam. Her home took its name from the calm water
just below the big bend in the river, which permitted krill netters to dock
with some relief from swift current. The port was usually sheltered from the
storms that ripped up from the gulf. A half-klom upstream from the cloud of
shrieking birds that hovered, diving for the offal from krill stomping, brush
had been cleared to leave a thirty-meter stretch of bank where some geological
accident had left more sand than mud. Here the Daresslamites bathed. Men
monopolized the tiny beach on Mondays, Wednesdays and, most important for
ritualistic reasons, on Fridays. Women, being (by God's Grace!) of a lesser
nature and more unclean, had the run of the beach on the other four days. This
generosity also allowed them time to do the laundry. Candila Suhay was three
and a half (fourteen and a half-ess) and living proof of an ancient proverb to