Fugitive of the Stars

WANTED: ONE OUTLAWED SPACE PILOT!

Home, the spaceship's pilot, had been warned. "Don't forget the meteor swarm." And Home's directional calculations for the Vega Queen's course took that advice into account; the spaceship would go fifteen thousand miles out of its way to avoid those deadly celestial rocks.

But when Home went off duty, he felt himself numbed by a curious druglike leadenness. And the next thing he knew, he was in a lifeboat, speeding away from the floating wreckage of the Vega Queen.

Eighteen survivors out of one hundred and fifty-three passengers. And each one in the tiny space shell believed Home responsible . . . deliberate negligence, calculated destruction. . . .

Someone had drugged Home, he knew; someone had tampered with the ship to alter its course. But who? And for what cosmic purpose?

Cover Art by Doug Chaffee

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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

First printing, September 2008

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ISBN-13: 978-1-602-82398-3
ISBN-10: 1-602-82398-7

Copyright© 1965 by Edmond Hamilton

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