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Voodoo Planet / Star Hunter

This is two completely unrelated short stories in the same cover. This review will focus only on the “Voodoo Planet” portion of the book.

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Part of the crew of the “Solar Queen” explore more exciting prospects other than the short mail run they’ve been consigned to since reaching an agreement with a “Combine”, one of many mega-companies who seldom competed with small-time free traders. The ship’s doctor, or “medico” as often referenced in Norton’s many books, “Tau” had gained a reputation as a collector of “Magic”. When their cargo from incoming trade ship is delayed, the waylaid skeleton crew of the Queen is offered the opportunity to escape the sauna-like planet they are currently marooned on to visit her exotic sister planet, “Khatka”. Dane Thorson and Medic Tau team up in a quest for survival in the wilds of the Voodoo planet as they try to make it back to some form of civilization against the wishes of a Voodoo Priest who is bent on a competition to the death with Medic Tau and for the control of the entire planet.

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