The Blue Star
BY FLETCHER PRATT
NEW YORK : TWAYNE PUBLISHERS, INC.
COPYRIGHT 1952 BY TWAYNE PUBLISHERS, INC.
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Contents
[Prologue] 225 1 [Netznegon City: March Rain] 230 2 [April Night] 236 3 [Escape] 243 4 [Daylight; Refuge] 250 5 [Night; Generosity; Treason] 257 6 [Night and Day; The Place of Masks] 264 7 [Sedad Vix: A New Life] 271 8 [High Politic] 278 9 [Spring Festival: Intrigue of Count Cleudi] 285 10 [Prelude to the Servants’ Ball] 291 11 [Kazmerga; Two Against a World] 297 12 [Netznegon City; A Zigraner Festival] 306 13 [Farewell and Greeting] 314 14 [The Eastern Sea; The Captain’s Story] 321 15 [Charalkis; The Door Closes] 329 16 [The Eastern Sea: Systole] 337 17 [Charalkis: The Depth and Rise] 345 18 [Decide for Life] 353 19 [Two Choices] 360 20 [Inevitable] 366 21 [Midwinter: The Return] 372 22 [The Law of Love] 380 23 [Netznegon: Return to Glory] 387 24 [Speeches in the Great Assembly] 393 25 [Interview at the Nation’s Guest-House] 399 26 [The Court of Special Cases] 403 27 [Winter Light] 407 28 [Embers Revived] 413 29 [No and Yes] 418 [Epilogue] 422
Prologue
Penfield twirled the stem of his port-glass between thumb and finger.
“I don’t agree,” he said. “It’s nothing but egocentric vanity to consider our form of life as unique among those on the millions of worlds that must exist.”
“How do you know they exist?” said Hodge.