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Moonbeast

A. E. van Vogt

Also by A. E. van Vogt in Panther Books
 The Mind Cage

Slan

The Voyage of the Space Beagle

Away and Beyond

Destination: Universe!

The Book of Ptath

The WarAgainst the Rull

Panther Science Fiction

A Panther Book Moonbeast

First published in Great Britain by Sidgwick & Jackson Limited

(asтАШThe BeastтАЩ inA Van Vogt Omnibus ) 1967.

Panther edition published 1969.

Copyright ┬й A. E. van Vogt 1943, 1944, 1963.

This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade orotherwise , be lent, re-sold,
hired out or otherwisecirculated without the publisherтАЩs prior consent in any form of binding or cover
other than that in which it is publishedand without a similar condition including this condition being
imposed on the subsequent purchaser .

This book is published at a net price and is supplied subject to the Publishers Association Standard
Conditions of Sale registered under the Restrictive Trade Practices Act, 1956.

Printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press), Ltd., Bungay, Suffolk, and published by
Panther Books, jUpper James Street, London, W.1 .

One



The blue-gray engine lay almost buried in a green hillside. It lay there in that summer of 1972, a soulless
thing of metal and of forces almost as potent as life itself. Rain washed its senseless form. A July, then an
August sun blazed down on it. At night the stars reflected wanly from the metal, caring nothing for its
destiny. The ship it drove had been nosing down into EarthтАЩs atmosphere when the meteorite plowed