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However, Adabout conditions here, beyond what he may orquite testy about h I have responded fu

lly to all his legitimate inquiries and requests) I suspect that if he is in control when he arrives, re raphics suggest that I will be dead before he gets here so that issue will be moot

Thirteen you may be, but at least you understand that you cannot lead strangers, you can only coerce or bribe them

--Vitaly

Sel Menach's back and neck ached froh a microscope If I keep this up, I'll be bent over like an old hag before I'm thirty-five

But it would be the sarowing up theout the sun His back would bend there, too, and his skin turn brown You could hardly tell one race froht It was like a vision of the future: Personnel chosen froists and xenobiologists and cliists--and also combat pilots, so they could kill the enemy who once owned this world--and now that the as over, they'd interbreed so thoroughly that in three generations, in here

And yet each colony world would get its own look, its own accent of IF Coes As colonists began to go from world to world, new divisions would arise Meanwhile, Earth itself would keep all the old races and nationalities and es, so that the distinction between colonist and Earthborn would become more and more clear and important

Not ht Sel I can see the future, anyone can; but there'll be no future here on the planet now called Shakespeare unless I can find a way to kill this rain crops from Earth How could there be a rasses of Earth, including the grains, have no genetic analogue on this world?

Afraireen house It was so ironic--all the high-tech agricultural equiphters in the belly of the transport starship, and yet when it failed there would be no parts, no replacements for fifty years Maybe forty, if the new stardrive actually brought the colony ship sooner By the ti for roots and utterly without any working technology

Or Iour crops so that they thrive in this place, and we have huge food surpluses, enough to buy us leisure tiical infrastructure

We arrive at an extre under it to hold it up If we crash, we crash all the way down

"Look at this," said Afraima

Dutifully, Sel stood up from hisat here?"

"What do you see?" she asked

"Don't play games with me"