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    The Peacemaker
    The Peacemaker
    The Peacemaker
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    The Peacemaker

    By Bob Martin and Alfred Coppel

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Peacemaker - Bob Martin

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Peacemaker, by Alfred Coppel

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      Title: The Peacemaker

      Author: Alfred Coppel

      Illustrator: Bob Martin

      Release Date: March 25, 2010 [EBook #31767]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PEACEMAKER ***

      Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online

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      The Arrow lanced down out of the night

      like a spear of flame, vengeful and deadly.

      The legends of Jaq Merril are legion—but legends. Hark, ye, then to the true story of the pirate benefactor of Mankind!

      THE PEACEMAKER

      By Alfred Coppel

      Illustrated by BOB MARTIN

      We humans are a strange breed, unique in the Universe. Of all the races met among the stars, only homo sapiens thrives on deliberate self-delusion. Perhaps this is the secret of our greatness, for we are great. In power, if not in supernal wisdom.

      Legends, I think, are our strength. If one day a man stands on the rim of the Galaxy and looks out across the gulfs toward the seetee suns of Andromeda, it will be legends that drove him there.

      They are odd things, these legends, peopled with unreal creatures, magnificent heroes and despicable villains. We stand for no nonsense where our mythology is concerned. A man becoming part of our folklore becomes a fey, one-dimensional, shadow-image of reality.

      Jaq Merril—the Jaq Merril of the history books—is such an image. History, folklore's jade, has daubed Merril with the rouge of myth, and it does not become him.

      The Peacemaker, the chronicles have named him, and that at least, is accurate in point of fact. But it was not through choice that he became the Peacemaker; and when his Peace descended over the worlds of space, Merril, the man, was finished. This I know, for I rode with him—his lieutenant in a dozen and more bloody fights that earned him his ironically pacific laurels.

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