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Return To Rocheworld [Book 2 of the Rocheworld Series]
by Dr. Robert L. Forward and Julie Forward Fuller
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Copyright (c)1992 by Robert L. Forward and Julie Forward Fuller


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*ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS*
The authors wish to thank the following people, who helped us in
several technical areas: Dana Andrews, Paul L. Blass, Carl Richard Feynman,
Charles W. Fuller, David K. Lynch, Patrick L. McGuire, Hans P. Moravec, Jef
Poskanzer, Daniel G. Shapiro, Vernor Vinge, and Mark Zimmermann.
The "Christmas Bush" motile was jointly conceived by Hans P. Moravec
and Robert L. Forward, and drawn by Jef Poskanzer using a CAD system.
All final art was expertly prepared by the great group of graphic
artists at Multi-Graphics in Marina Del Rey, California.
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*CHAPTER ZERO -- LEAVING*
The crew of the first interstellar expedition had already experienced
its share of troubles; opposition, discord, mutiny, treachery, pestilence, and
death. Now, six of them were in a race for their lives...
Barnard, the star they had come to visit, loomed large and red on the
horizon, its disk five times larger than that of Sol. But even though they
were now very close to the red dwarf star, its dim red light did little to
warm the sub-zero poisonous atmosphere outside their crippled aerospace plane.
They were now gliding through the thin ammonia-laden air over the dry cratered