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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 Algis Budrys

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    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. Algis Budrys was the Hugo and Nebula award nominated author of Rogue Moon and Michaelmas.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilder Publications, Inc.
    Release dateJun 16, 2020
    ISBN9781515445869
    The Stoker and the Stars
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    Algis Budrys

    Algis Budrys (1931–2008) was born in Königsberg, East Prussia, where his father served in the Lithuanian diplomatic corps. The family came to the United States when Budrys was five years old. A Renaissance man, he wrote stories and novels, and was an editor, critic, and reviewer, a teacher of aspiring writers, and a publisher. In the 1960s Budrys worked in public relations, advertising products such as pickles, tuna fish, and four-wheel-drive vehicles. His science fiction novels include Rogue Moon, Hard Landing, Falling Torch, and many others. His Cold War science fiction thriller Who? was adapted for the screen, and he received many award nominations for his work. Budrys was married to his wife, Edna, for almost fifty-four years.  

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      The Stoker and the Stars - Algis Budrys

      The Stoker and the Stars

      by Algis Budrys

      ©2020 Positronic Publishing

      The Stoker and the Stars is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, locales or institutions is entirely coincidental.

      All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission except for brief quotations for review purposes only.

      ISBN 13: 978-1-5154-4586-9

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      The Stoker and the Stars

      The Stoker and the Stars

      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.

      Know 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

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