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GALAXY JANE
By Ron Goulart

A Berkley Book/published by arrangement wiih the author

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Berkley edition/March 1986
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Copyright © 1986 by Ron Goulart.
Cover art by Boris Vallejo.

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ISBN: 0-425-08684-4

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CHAPTER 1

The three glittering robots who attacked him on the ground level of the shuttleport were only three feet high but full of nasty tricks.

Jack Summer, a middle-sized sandy-haired man of thirty-nine, had been striding toward the glaz doors leading to the NewzNet takeoff area, when a certain amount of whooping and hollering commenced behind him.

“There’s the blighter!”

“That’s him! Summer the philanderer!”

“Let’s us give ‘im what-for!”

Spinning around, Summer found himself facing a trio of midget robots. There were sneers and scowls showing on their silvery ballheads, the words Scoundrel Trackers, Ltd. engraved in gloletters on their metallic chests.

“Fellas,” said Summer, grinning amiably and holding up a hand in a stop-right-there gesture, “I think I know who’s hired you and—”

“Dirty sod!”

“Irresponsible lout!”