AVON BOOKS

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The Hearst Corporation

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New York, New York 10019

Copyright © 1976 by Joe Haldeman

Published by arrangement with St. Martin’s Press, Inc.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 75-26185

ISBN:       0-380-01689-3

All rights reserved, which includes the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever. For information address St. Martin’s Press, Inc., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10010

First Avon Printing, February, 1978

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