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WARRiOR PLANET

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed In this book are fictional, and any
resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

Copyright © 1987 by Don Wismer

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form,

A Baen Books Original

Baen Publishing Enterprises
260 Fifth Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10001

First printing, May 1987

ISBN: 0-671-65642-2

Cover art by A.C. Farley

Printed in the United States of America

Distributed by
SIMON & SCHUSTER
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New York, N.Y. 10020




Prologue

There was the faintest whisper of sound behind him. He whirled on the ball of his foot.

The animal was in the air, In mid-leap from a housesized boulder that he had just passed. it was
steersized, sixlegged, with a mouth hinged like a shark’s, green and spotted with blotches like sun
patches on sward. Detail merged into horror; he saw a confused swirl of claws and teeth.

In panic, he threw up his bands, arms rigid, palms at a ninety-degree angle toward the beast.
Green flame wrapped around his wrists and focused. Fire shot out at the beast.
 Even as he did it, he knew that it was a mistake.

The October One looked at him from the height of her ornamented chair. Two powerful Adepts
held him, one by each arm, standing in front of her, just behind the yellow line. His head hung; he could
not look her in the eyes.

“You killed an animal,” she said In her gravelly, flat voice. He made no answer, could think of
none.