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Captive of the Centaurianess
The hero is the child of his times, in that his milieu furnishes him with motives and means, and yet the hero seizes the time and shapes it as he will. And he remains an enigma to his contemporaries and to the future. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the strange story of the three whose discoveries and achievements determined the whole course of history. The driving idealism and bold military genius of Dyann Korlas; the mighty wisdom, profound and benign, of Urushkidan; above all, perhaps, the transcendent clarity of mind and inspired leadership of Ballantynethese molded our century and all centuries to come, and yet we will never understand them, they are too far beyond us and their essential selves must be forever a mystery. The tender loomed above the crowd of passengers and leave-takers, a great shining bullet caught in floodlights against the dark, and Ray Ballantyne quickened his steps. By Heaven, he'd made it! The flight from San Francisco to Quito, the nail-biting dawdle as he waited for the airbus, then the flight out to Ecuador Spaceport, the last walk through the vast echoing hollowness of the terminal, out onto the fieldand there it was, there the little darling lay, waiting to carry him from Earth up to the Jovian Queen and safety. ......Buy Now (To Read More)
Ebook Number: 64075
Author: Anderson, Poul
Release Date: Dec 18, 2020
Format: eBook
Language: English
Illustrator: Emshwiller, Ed, 1925-1990
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