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Title: The Planet Savers

Author: Marion Zimmer Bradley

Release Date: March 13, 2010 [EBook #31619]

Language: English

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AMAZING STORIES

SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

THE
PLANET
SAVERS

By
MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY

ILLUSTRATOR NOVICK

A SHORT NOVEL

the planet savers

_Marion Zimmer Bradley has written some of the finest science
fiction in print. She has been away from our pages too long. So this
story is in the nature of a triumphant return. It could well be her
best to date._

By the time I got myself all the way awake I thought I was alone. I was
lying on a leather couch in a bare white room with huge windows,
alternate glass-brick and clear glass. Beyond the clear windows was a
view of snow-peaked mountains which turned to pale shadows in the
glass-brick.

Habit and memory fitted names to all these; the bare office, the orange
flare of the great sun, the names of the dimming mountains. But beyond a
polished glass desk, a man sat watching me. And I had never seen the man
before.

He was chubby, and not young, and had ginger-colored eyebrows and a
fringe of ginger-colored hair around the edges of a forehead which was
otherwise quite pink and bald. He was wearing a white uniform coat, and
the intertwined caduceus on the pocket and on the sleeve proclaimed him
a member of the Medical Service attached to the Civilian HQ of the
Terran Trade City.

I didn't stop to make all these evaluations consciously, of course. They
were just part of my world when I woke up and found it taking shape
around me. The familiar mountains, the famili