The Project Gutenberg EBook of Lone Star Planet
by Henry Beam Piper and John Joseph McGuire

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

Title: Lone Star Planet

Author: Henry Beam Piper and John Joseph McGuire

Release Date: January 3, 2007 [EBook #20121]
[This file was first posted on December 16, 2006]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LONE STAR PLANET ***

Produced by Greg Weeks, Malcolm Farmer, and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

LONE STAR PLANET

by

H. Beam Piper and John J. McGuire

Transcriber's Note:
This etext was prepared from a 1979 reprint of the 1958 original. There is
no evidence that the copyright on this publication was renewed.
Obvious typesetting errors in the source text have been corrected

Lone Star Planet

SF

ace books

A Division of Charter Communications Inc.

A GROSSET & DUNLAP COMPANY

360 Park Avenue South

New York, New York 10010

LONE STAR PLANET

Copyright (C) 1958 by Ace Books, Inc.

Originally published as A PLANET FOR TEXANS

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form
or by any means, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a
review, without permission in writing from the publisher.

All characters in this book are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual
persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

This Ace Printing: April 1979

Printed in U.S.A.

CHAPTER I

They started giving me the business as soon as I came through the door
into the Secretary's outer office.

There was Ethel K'wang-Li, the Secretary's receptionist, at her desk.
There was Courtlant Staynes, the assistant secretary to the
Undersecretary for Economic Penetration, and Norman Gazarin, from
Protocol, and Toby Lawder, from Humanoid Peoples' Affairs, and Raoul
Chavier, and Hans Mannteufel, and Olga Reznik.

It was a wonder there weren't more of them watching the condemned man's
march to the gibbet: the word that the Secretary had called me in must
have gotten all over the Department since the offices had opened.

"Ah, Mr. Machiavelli,