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A deadly cargo is hidden on an even deadlier world. Stellar Patrol Ranger Taigue Murchu has to track down a band of drug-runners before they unleash their toxic contraband on an unsuspecting population. The war-torn Federation has no resources to track down the pirates and even fewer to confront them if they did, so it's up to the under-funded and under-manned, not to mention the universally disliked, Stellar Patrol. The most likely drop-point for the contraband is Ruby, a frozen planet with a devastating history. No one goes there except smugglers and scientists. Enter Dr. Banna Lis, an archopologist with her eyes on one prize, the excavation of Ruby's long-dead civilization. When Taigue forces her to include him on her dig, working undercover as an assistant, sparks fly. But once the pair discover the pirates have already infiltrated the planet, they're going to have to work together both to protect the ruins and save millions of lives.

A team of techno-warriors-in a tooth-and-claw battle for survival To the Commandos, Amazoon is straight out of a delirium-soaked dream. Dense, dripping jungle, a paradise for savage predators-and hell for humans who dare to intrude. The hostile planet hides a deadly treasure they must recover: a cache of stolen Navy materiel. But a crash landing strands the team far off target. And ahead lies a gauntlet of fever and venom, guarded by primordial adversaries deadlier than the most sophisticated star-fighter...crawling, slithering, and swimming machines designed to deliver quick death-or slow torture..." Excellent SF Adventure "-Andre Norton

A murderous cult. Nature's deadly strength unleashed. Sometimes the most terrible enemy is time . . . The peaceful, self-sufficient people of Tambora of Pele seem an unlikely target for Admiral Varn Tarl Sogan's hatred and anger. A turquoise-hued paradise world on the fringes of the universe, Tambora is light years away from other systems ravaged by the great intergalactic War. But beneath Tambora's beauty lurks a terrible peril. A radical sect secretly arms itself, designing a deadly strategy for civil war. Far below the planet's oceans, an even mightier force rumbles and threatens to smother all life forms in a fiery shower of ash and molten rock. Only the Star Commandos can rescue Tambora from certain disaster-but are they too late?" Excellent SF Adventure "-Andre Norton

Four Space Commandos in a Desperate Fight Against an Army of Alien Raiders... The Britynons were the only race to receive the Federation's most severe punishment-confinement to their own solar system. Commando-Colonel Islaen Connor well remembers the rape of her homeworld by these off-worlders. They come as locusts, stripping a planet of its resources, returning nothing. Now the Britynons have come in secret to another world, beautiful and primitive. Islaen Connor vows to stand between the renegades and the fate they plan for the planet and its people-even if it means death for her and her three comrades..." Excellent SF Adventure "-Andre Norton

The immortal space saga of the STAR COMMANDOS continues. In the fourth volume of this compelling and endearing adventure series, the STAR COMMANDOS journey to Mirelle of Eri, the dreaded Death Planet, to foil the conspiracy of a rogue pirate fleet. Yet the greatest danger isn't the pirates and their weaponry, but rather the plague of deadly fungus lying dormant in the caves of the watery planet, waiting for prey to consume with its flesh-eating spores. "The most suspenseful and nail-biting episode of the STAR COMMANDOS to date. Once you start it, you can't put it down Absolutely electrifying "-Robert E. Gelinas Author, The Mustard Seed For the War Prince Varn Tarl Sogan, the Death Planet is his greatest test-to return to the place where he witnessed first-hand the savage carnage of the fungus, and where many of the ships he formerly commanded still lie, only to be cannibalized and appropriated by space pirates, who themselves are unaware of the spores of death with which they might infect the ultrasystem if any are allowed to leave Mirelle of Eri alive." Excellent SF Adventure "-Andre NortonJourney with the STAR COMMANDOS through vast and ancient caverns, fording underground rivers, crawling through a chillingly tight labyrinth of tunnels, scaling chimney towers, and inching across thin ribbon ledges with danger around every turn. This mission challenges the COMMANDOS unlike anything they've faced before, testing their endurance and resolve to the point of sheer desperation.

The immortal space saga of the STAR COMMANDOS continues. In the third volume of this compelling and endearing adventure series, Colonel Islaen Conner, her consort, former Arcturian Admiral and War Prince Varn Tarl Sogan, her old friend and former Commando Captain Jake Karmikel, along with Bandit the Jadite, meet beautiful and resourceful demolitions expert Sergeant Bethe Danlo. Together, the Commandos must travel to the depths of the treacherous caverns of the planet Hades on a mission to recover and disarm a deadly "Planetbuster," a missile left over from the War, capable of wreaking unspeakable damage-and quite possibly about to fall into the hands of dreaded space pirates...unless they get there first." Excellent SF Adventure "-Andre NortonJourney with the STAR COMMANDOS through vast and ancient caverns, fording underground rivers, crawling through a chillingly tight labyrinth of tunnels, scaling chimney towers, and inching across thin ribbon ledges with danger around every turn. This mission challenges the COMMANDOS unlike anything they've faced before, testing their endurance and resolve to the point of sheer desperation.

Armed for Justice. Trained to Kill. They Were the Planet's Only Hope. . . . The Amonites: Innocent colonists eager to escape their impoverished homeworld and begin a new life on the unspoiled planet Vishnu. Colonists' zeal and spacers' greed have led them to a planet unexplored and untested. No one knows what malevolent life it may harbor. If trouble strikes, the Amonites will be alone, with no allies in sight. Enter Commando-Colonel Islaen Connor: Beautiful. Intelligent. Deadly. She cut her teeth on a galactic war and has pledged to clean up the human filth left in its wake. Under deep cover and with death close on her heels, she digs for evidence to put away those who led the Amonites to this world. With the help of one trusted comrade, once a deadly enemy, she just may live long enough to succeed. IF THEY LOSE-A WORLD DIES"Excellent SF adventure "-Andre Norton

The Time Agents must lead an embattled population of the planet Dominion's far past in a desperate guerrilla war upon whose outcome the future fate of the entire world depends. Only a hero of mythic proportions can hope to lead them against their powerful enemy. They need FIREHAND, but can Ross Murdock live up to the legend he has created?