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Title: The Galaxy Primes

Author: Edward Elmer Smith

Release Date: March 25, 2007 [EBook #20898]

Date last Updated: August 18, 2007

Language: English

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THE GALAXY PRIMES

By E. E. SMITH

They were four of the greatest minds in the Universe:
Two men, two women, lost in an experimental spaceship
billions of parsecs from home. And as they mentally
charted the Cosmos to find their way back to earth,
their own loves and hates were as startling as the worlds
they encountered. Here is E. E. Smith's great new novel....

[Illustration:

The guardian struggled to immobilize the beast's
gigantic talons as the frightened girl leaped to the
safety of Garlock's arms.]

CHAPTER 1

Her hair was a brilliant green. So was her spectacularly filled halter.
So were her tight short-shorts, her lipstick, and the lacquer on her
finger-and toe-nails. As she strolled into the Main of the starship,
followed hesitantly by the other girl, she drove a mental probe at the
black-haired, powerfully-built man seated at the instrument-banked
console.

Blocked.

Then at the other, slenderer man who was rising to his feet from the
pilot's bucket seat. His guard was partially down; he was telepathing a
pleasant, if somewhat reserved greeting to both newcomers.

She turned to her companion and spoke aloud. "So _these_ are the
system's best." The emphasis was somewhere between condescension and
sneer. "Not much to choose between, I'd say ... 'port me a tenth-piece,
Clee? Heads, I take the tow-head."

She flipped the coin