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r. THE SLAVE MIDNIGHT POSTURED AND ADMIRED HERSELF WHILE HER MASTER AND HIS
FRIEND WATCHED. She had never been so loaded with twinkling jewelry nor
dreamed of herself in such breathtaking splendor. Surely Cleopatra would have
been envious of the slave Midnight, once Quindy of the spacer Satana Her
fellow slave Love-fire, the former Capt. Hellfire, was hardly less resplendent
in multicolor crystal, pendants. (Love-fire needed that extra color, in fact,
to hide the whip marks. Drugs were not enough.) Both had knelt well and
submissively, writhing and thrusting boldly while their masters grew steadily
more drunk. It was then the two men, each proud of his slave and pleased with
the other's, decided to flaunt their exotic possessions. Leaning on the
jewel-flashing girls, they went out into the night: two reeling masters of
Survival and their incredibly gaudy women. Cecil B. De Mille would have been
envious.... SPACEWAYS #1 OF ALIEN BONDAGE#2 CORUNDUM'S WOMAN #3 ESCAPE
FROM MACHO #4 SATANA ENSLAVED PLAYBOY PAPERBACKS SPACEWAYS #4: SATANA
ENSLAVED Copyright (c) 1982 by John Cleve Cover illustration copyright (c)
1982 by PEI Books, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be
reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form by an
electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording means or otherwise without
prior written permission of the publisher. The poem Scarlet Hills copyright
(c) 1982 by Ann Morris; used by permission of the author. Published
simultaneously in the United States and Canada by Playboy Paperbacks, New
York, New York. Printed in the United States of America. Library of Congress
Catalog Card Number: 81-85828. First edition. Books are available at quantity
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to Premium Sales, Playboy Paperbacks, 1633 Broadway, New York, New York
10019. ISBN: 0-867-21111-3 First printing July 1982. A: All planets are not
shown. B: Map is not to scale, because of the vast distances between stars.
SCARLET HILLS Alas, fair ones, my time has come. I must depart your lovely
home- Seek the bounds of this galaxy To find what lies
beyond. (chorus) Scarlet hills and amber skies, Gentlebeings with loving eyes;
All these 1 leave to search for a dream That will cure the wand'rer in me. You
say it must be glamorous For those who travel out through space. You know not
the dark, endless night Nor the solitude we face. (reprise chorus) I know not
of my journey's end Nor the time nor toll it will have me spend. But 1 must
see what I've never seen And know what I've never known. Scarlet hills and
amber skies, Gentlebeings with loving eyes; All these I leave to search for a
dream That will cure the wand'rer in me. -Ann Morris 1 The city sleeps
below. 1 sigh For there dwells one, all testify, To match the maddest of
dream's desire. -Thomas Hardy Barso swept his down-covered arm in a broad
gesture that sent beautiful ripples through his iridescent tunic, while taking
in all of the arcology that was his city. "And so we have lived here in our
city inside the mountain, for eight hundred ninety revolutions," he said,
declaiming proudly. "Snug as lichen tucked in sandstone, secure inside a world
gone cold when our sun died. Survivors!" "Oh it's marvelous, my love," Janja
told the short, downy Knorman. "And such a lovely, perfectly self-sufficient