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    Star Performer
    Star Performer
    Star Performer
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    Star Performer

    By Dick Francis and Robert Shea

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Star Performer - Dick Francis

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Star Performer, by Robert J. Shea

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

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      Title: Star Performer

      Author: Robert J. Shea

      Illustrator: Dick Francis

      Release Date: March 22, 2010 [EBook #31736]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK STAR PERFORMER ***

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      This etext was produced from the September 1960 issue of If. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      Star Performer

      By ROBERT J. SHEA

      Illustrated by DICK FRANCIS

      Blue Boy's rating was high and his fans were loyal to the death—anyone's death!

      avir gingerly fitted the round opening in the bottom of the silvery globe over the top of his hairless blue skull. He pulled the globe down until he felt tiny filaments touching his scalp. The tips of the wires were cold.

      The moderator then said, "Dreaming Through the Universe tonight brings you the first native Martian to appear on the dreamwaves—Gavir of the Desert Men. With him is his guardian, Dr. Malcomb Rice, the noted anthropologist."

      Then the moderator questioned Malcomb, while Gavir nervously awaited the moment when his thoughts would be transmitted to millions of Earthmen. Malcomb told how he had been struck by Gavir's intelligence and missionary-taught ability to speak Earth's language, and had decided to bring Gavir to Earth.

      The moderator turned to Gavir. Are you anxious to get back to Mars?

      No! Gavir thought. Back behind the Preserve Barrier that killed you instantly if you stepped too close to it? Back to the constant fear of being seized by MDC guards for a labor pool, to wind up in the MDC mines?

      Mars was where Gavir's father had been pinned, bayonets through his hands and feet, to the wall of a shack just the other side of the Barrier, to die slowly, out of Gavir's reach. Father James told Gavir that the head of MDC himself

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