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Trader to the Stars

Future History of the Polesotechnic League seriesNext:The Trouble Twisters(1966) →

Humankind has explored the galaxy: Nicholas van Rijn had bought it. A starwide empire was difficult to run, but the old man was wily and the resources of the Solar Spice & Liquors Company were vast. But sometimes even a conquered world can get just a little out of hand.

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In his Magnificent Future History of Mankind's second great age Poul Anderson has conjured up a universe too immense for even the human race to despoil. Across this grand expanse of space roams the Polesotechnic League, a band of merchant princes from every inhabited planet, in search of adventure and riches beyond the wildest dreams of our earthbound time!

Contents:

Hiding Place (1961)

Territory (1962)

The Master Key (1964)

Audience
adult
Length
short · 159 pages

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