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    The Stoker and the Stars
    The Stoker and the Stars
    The Stoker and the Stars
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    The Stoker and the Stars

    By H. R. van Dongen and Algis Budrys

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Stoker and the Stars - H. R. van Dongen

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Stoker and the Stars, by

      Algirdas Jonas Budrys (AKA John A. Sentry)

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: The Stoker and the Stars

      Author: Algirdas Jonas Budrys (AKA John A. Sentry)

      Illustrator: van Dongen

      Release Date: October 12, 2007 [EBook #22967]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STOKER AND THE STARS ***

      Produced by Greg Weeks, Bruce Albrecht, Stephen Blundell

      and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at

      http://www.pgdp.net

      THE STOKER

      AND THE STARS

      BY JOHN A. SENTRY

      When you've had your ears pinned back in a bowknot, it's sometimes hard to remember that an intelligent people has no respect for a whipped enemy ... but does for a fairly beaten enemy.

      Illustrated by van Dongen

      now him? Yes, I know him—knew him. That was twenty years ago.

      Everybody knows him now. Everybody who passed him on the street knows him. Everybody who went to the same schools, or even to different schools in different towns, knows him now. Ask them. But I knew him. I lived three feet away from him for a month and a half. I shipped with him and called him by his first name.

      What was he like? What was he thinking, sitting on the edge of his bunk with his jaw in his palm and his eyes on the stars? What did he think he was after?

      Well ... Well, I think he— You know, I think I never did know him, after all. Not well. Not as well as some of those people who're writing the books about him seem to.

      I couldn't really describe him to you. He had a duffelbag in his hand and a packed airsuit on his back. The skin of his face had been dried out by ship's air, burned by ultraviolet and broiled by infra red. The pupils of his eyes had little cloudy specks

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