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Five citizens of Terra were being held on other worlds -- and the ultra-secret Department 99 existed only to set them, and others like them, free. Chapters alternate between stories of five Terrans being held by the authorities on alien planets and the efforts of a secret Terran government department to come up with plans to free them. In the midst of the planning and problems, a huge power outage causes even more trouble for D-99 as they struggle...
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Excerpt: "The main trouble with the planet Boyd III was one satellite too many. Had there been no third moon, large and close, the tides might have been less confused and the weather more predictable. Certain peaks of atmospheric wildness, recurrent coastal catastrophes, logical but distressing customs of the natives-lack of these factors would have made Boyd III a much more attractive world."
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Great collection of action short stories by H. B. Fyfe from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here: "Irresistible Weapon", "Tolliver's Orbit", "Manners of the Age", "Flamedown", "The Outbreak of Peace", "Fee of the Frontier", "The Envoy, Her", and "Let There Be Light".
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Great collection of action short stories by H. B. Fyfe from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here: "Satellite System", "The Wedge", "The Talkative Tree", "This World Must Die!", "A Transmutation of Muddles", "Exile", "Luna Escapade", and "Round-and-Round Trip".
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