Soldiers by John Dalmas
Soldiers
Contents:
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
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Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Epilog
Soldiers
John Dalmas
Chapter 1
The Wyzhñyñy
Grand Admiral Quanshûk shu-Gorlak waited. “Thirty-nine,” the ship counted. “Thirty-eight, thirty-seven . . .” After eleven years in hyperspace, Quanshûk asked himself, how can these final seconds seem so long? Eleven years of wondering what he’d find. Probably, hopefully, nothing basically unfamiliar.
Most of his people had spent the entire eleven years in a sleep so profound that aging was suspended; even he’d spent alternate months in a stasis chamber. Eleven years of hyperspace, mostly between spiral arms. On the screen’s display of the F-space potentiality, there’d been whole months without the matric distortion of a single star. Only today had they seen two on a watch, both clearly unsuitable. And now a third. Judging by its mass not a promising third, but it was time to emerge, examine the starscape.