This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.
Copyright © 2001 by Andre Norton. Star Guard copyright © 1955 by Harcourt Brace & Co.; Star Rangers copyright © 1953 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.
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ISBN: 0-671-31827-6
Cover art by Stephen Hickman
First printing, August 2001
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Norton, Andre.
Star soldiers / by Andre Norton.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-671-31827-6
1. Life on other planets—Fiction. 2. Space flight—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3527.O632 S72 2001
813’.52—dc21 2001025926
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