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Protector

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Physsthpok, a member of the Pak race of aliens, sets out to find a lost group of Breeders sent into space 2 1/2 million years ago, and encounters Brennan, a rebel smuggler of the Belt worlds


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“The stars are far from eternal, but for man they might as well be.”

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Section 1, Phssthpok, Chapter 1 (p. 7)
Protector (1973)

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“And the air was full of the smell of burning bridges.”

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Section 2, Vandervecken (p. 166)
Protector (1973)

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