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The Silent Invaders / Battle on Venus (Vintage Ace Double, F-195)
The Silent Invaders / Battle on Venus - Vintage Ace Double, F-195 Author:Robert Silverberg, William F. Temple THE SILENT INVADERS: Abner Harris came to Earth on a mission of extreme urgency. A Subject of the Spirit had no right to question his orders. And his orders said that the universe was in danger of enslavement by the pebble-skinned Medlins. And that the fight against their evil scheming called for him to assume the disguise of a flesh-and-blood E... more »arthman.
But once in that new synthetic body, he made a mind-numbing discovery: that the real villains of space were neither the Medlins nor the people of Earth, but his own kind!
Suddenly he was alone, alienated from his own race, hated by the Medlins, and an impostor on Earth. No matter which side he chose, he's be a traitor, but choose he must, or forever remain a man without a planet!
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BATTLE ON VENUS: The first Earth spaceship to reach Venus landed amidst a war where strange weapons like the archaic ones used in the old wars on Earth in the 20th Century hurled shells at each other. But this was had lasted over a thousand years - and by remote control!
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George Starkey had to find a way to stop the war before the little group of astronauts became early casualties. But how? Where were the headquarters of the contending sides, and how do you tell a robot tank that you're neutral?« less