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Ace Books by Gordon R. Dicbon
ALIEN ART & ARCTURUS LANDING
THE ALIEN WAY
COMBAT SF THE FAR CALL THE FOREVER MAN HOME FROM THE SHORE
IN IRON YEARS JAMIE THE RED (with Roland Green)
LOVE NOT HUMAN MASTERS OF EVERON NAKED TO THE STARS
ON THE RUN SPACEPAW THE SPACE SWIMMERS
SPACIAL DELIVERY TIME TO TELEPORT/DELUSION WORM
WAY OF THE PILGRIM
THE EARTH LORDS
The "Childe Cycle" Series
DORSAI! LOST DORSAI NECROMANCER SOLDIER, ASK NOT THE SPIRIT OF DORSAI TACTICS
OF MISTAKE THE FINAL ENCYCLOPEDIA THE DORSAI COMPANION
THE CHANTRY GUILD
THE
CHR TRY
GUILD
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THE CHANTRY GUILD
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PRINTING HISTORY Ace hardcover edition / October 1988 Ace mass market edition
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CHAPTER
A little before dawn, Amanda Morgan woke in the front room of the tiny
apartment rented by the family which had risked giving her shelter. A young
girl shared the front room floor with her; but she still slumbered, as did the
rest.
Amanda had slept in the shapeless brown smock that had been all but forced on
the inhabitants of this world and its sister planet of Mara by the Occupation
Forces now ruling them. She rose now without putting on her ankle-high bush
boots, and squatted on her heels beside her borrowed sleeping mat, and rolled
it up.
Stowing it in a corner of the room and picking up the boots in one hand, she