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Title:

Sargasso of Space
 

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Genres:

Science Fiction
Fantasy

Series:

Solar Queen
1

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Andre "Meemaw" Norton - Sargasso of Space - 9 wolfspirit


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Editions:

# Date Publisher Binding Cover
1 1955-00-00 Gnome Press  

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Blurb: 
After ten years of schooling, orphan Dane Thorson is assigned via a computer analysis of his psychological profile--not to a safe berth on a sleek Company-run starship that his classmates were vying for--but to a battered tramp of a Free Trader. To say that the "Solar Queen" "lacked a great many refinements and luxurious fittings which the Company ships boasted" was an understatement. But she was a tightly-run ship and what she lacked in refinement, she made up for in adventure. Dane soon settles in under Cargo Master Van Rycke and learns "to his dismay what large gaps unfortunately existed in his training." The crew of the "Solar Queen" risk their meager capital in a gamble at a Survey auction, and win trading rights to a barely explored planet with the unlucky name of Limbo. When they view a microfilm of their new prize, it appears as though they have purchased ten years of trading rights to a planet that was burned to cinder during the heyday of the mysterious Forerunners, who predated humans in space. Just when the Queen"s fortune seems to be at its lowest ebb, a tough-looking archeologist shows up who is supposedly an expert on Forerunner artifacts, and charters her for a voyage to Limbo. It might have been better for the free traders if her captain had kept his ship planeted and declared bankruptcy after the disastrous Survey auction.