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The Path Beyond The Stars
by

Emil Petaja
Scanned by BW-SciFi
Version 1.0
 Published by
Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
750 Third Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10017
Copyright © 1969 by Emil Petaja
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be
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Manufactured in The United States of America
First printing—March 1969
Prologue

Part One: “Like molten metal…”

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

Part Two: “A Circle of Stones”

12 13 14

Part Three: “The Pentacle and the Cross”

15 16 17 18

Part Four: “In Crystal-Templed Barrecrith”

19

Part Five: Trog

20 21
THE PATH BEYOND THE STARS
 PROLOGUE
The baby woke up, wailed, kicked out. His father continued briskly to
strap him down in the blanketed cocoon of the spacer lifecraft—the
one-man type. Behind the grim, busy father the baby's mother stood
sobbing. When the lean, set-faced father had finished his task, and after a
final check of the hammock clamps, the autocontrols, the feeder, he backed