ction have illegal possession of the book, and will subject
them to claim by the Publisher and prosecution under law."

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Transcibers Note
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on
this publication was renewed.

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_TO ROD_

CONTENTS

Chapter Page

BOOK ONE: DAWN

I. Arisia and Eddore 11

II. The Fall of Atlantis 18

III. The Fall of Rome 36

BOOK TWO: THE WORLD WAR

IV. 1918 53

V. 1941 63

VI. 19--? 80

BOOK THREE: TRIPLANETARY

VII. Pirates of Space 93

VIII. In Roger's Planetoid 107

IX. Fleet Against Planetoid 121

X. Within the Red Veil 130

XI. Nevian Strife 145

XII. Worm, Submarine, and Freedom 159

XIII. The Hill 165

XIV. The Super-Ship Is Launched 175

XV. Specimens 183

XVI. Super-Ship in Action 187

XVII. Roger Carries On 199

XVIII. The Specimens Escape 215

XIX. Giants Meet 229

BOOK ONE

DAWN

CHAPTER 1

ARISIA AND EDDORE

Two thousand million or so years ago two galaxies were colliding; or,
rather, were passing through each other. A couple of hundreds of
millions of years either way do not matter, since at least that much
time was required for the inter-passage. At about that same time--within
the same plus-or-minus ten percent margin of error, it is
believed--practically all of the suns of both those galaxies became
possessed of planets.

There is much evidence to support the belief that it was not merely a
coincidence that so many planets came into being at about the same time
as the galactic inter-passage. Another school of thought holds that it
was pure coincidence; that all suns have p