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This is a work of fiction. The events described are imaginary and the characters an
fictitious and not intended to represent specific living persons. When persons or enti
ties are referred to by their true names, they are portrayed in entirely fictitious cir
curnstances; the reader should not infer that these events ever actually happened.
Excerpt from Across the Space Frontier by Cornelius Ryan, copyright C 1952 b)
Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, 1980 renewed by Viking Penguin Inc. Used b)
permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc.
Excerpt from You Will Go to the Moon by Mae and Ira Freeman, copyright 0 1959 by
Mae Freeman and Ira Freeman. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc.

THE TRANQUILLITY ALTERNATIVE

An Ace Book
Published by The Berkley Publishing Group
200 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 100 16

The Putnam Berkley World Wide Web site address is http://wwwberkleycom

Copyright (0 1996 by Allen M. Steele,

Cover art by Bob Eggleton

Book design by Stanley S. Drate/Folio Graphics Co., Inc.

All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form
without permission,

First Edition: March 1996

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Steele, Allen M.
The tranquillity alternative / Allen M. Steele. - Ist ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-441-00299-4 (hardcover)