el had
wiped out a Triplanetarian fleet; but Costigan had depopulated one
Nevian city, had seriously damaged another, and had beamed down many
Nevian ships. Therefore loss of life and material damage could be
balanced off. The Solarian System was rich in iron, to which the Nevians
were welcome; red Nevia possessed abundant stores of substances which
upon Earth were either rare or of vital importance, or both. Therefore
commerce was to be encouraged. The Nevians had knowledges and skills
unknown to Earthly science, but were entirely ignorant of many things
commonplace to us. Therefore interchange of students and of books was
highly desirable. And so on.

Thus was signed the Triplanetario-Nevian Treaty of Eternal Peace. Nerado
and his two companions were escorted ceremoniously to their vessel, and
the _Boise_ took off inertialess for Earth, bearing the good news that
the Nevian menace was no more.

Clio, now a hardened spacehound, immune even to the horrible nausea of
inertialessness, wriggled lithely in the curve of Costigan's arm and
laughed up at him.

"You can talk all you want to, Conway Murphy Spud Costigan, but I don't
like them the least little bit. They give me goose-bumps all over. I
suppose that they are really estimable folks; talented, cultured, and
everything; but just the same I'll bet that it will be a long, long time
before anybody on Earth will really, truly _like_ them!"

war of the galaxies

Eddore and Arisia fought desperately to control the Universe. The
ultimate battleground was a tiny, backward planet in a remote
galaxy--Earth.

And only a few Earthmen knew of the titanic struggle--and of the
strange, decisive role they were to play in the war of the
super-races.

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first of the celebrated novels that set a pattern for science
fiction.

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