Three stories comprise the second book of the Witch World series. Contents: Three against the Witch World -- Warlock of the Witch World -- Sorceress of the Witch World.
"Exotic gems and valuable oils were the lures that brought the space trader Solar Queen to the new planet Sargol"... An Ace paperback, cover price 40 cents!! Found this and two others on a bus stop one morning!
The space trader Solar Queen buys the rights to a new planet named Limbo. Now they are trapped... on the "Sargasso Of Space!!! Dane Thorson's first trip out of training. An Ace paperback, cover price 40 cents!! Found this and two others on a bus stop one morning!
Forerunner, #1. Shann has worked himself up from poverty to finally being assigned to a menial job on a Terran Survey party to the new planet Warlock. Almost all the Terrans in the party are killed by the alien Throg task force. The two survivors must figure out how to keep the Throg from killing the Terran colonists when they finally arrive.
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"See that! It's a copy of the one I had; it must be!" -- Really? Just 'cause it looks like it from fifty feet away?
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"I die--you follow--" Shann tried to make that promise emphatic.
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"Perhaps, the Throg returned. "But you die the first."
Apparently this is Time Traders *3, I haven't read *2 yet, at least not as far as I can remember. I read the Project Gutenberg e-book edition on my phone. Travis Fox is sent with the Apache group to an unsettled planet, they are shot down (yikes!), turns out the Reds are there with a Tatar group. Lots of stuff happens. Good story.
Kade Whitehawk is assigned as a Trader to a planet run by a bunch of oppressive aliens. He introduces horses so the slave race can free themselves from said aliens. SDHS discard.
Ross Murdock is offered choice: Go to prison, or participate in a government program. Roos chooses the government program, which turns out to be a SECRET government program, and involves POed Russians, POed alien, and time travel. Good story, I read it when I was a kid, this time it was the Project Gutenberg e-book edition.
Writing as Andrew North, Ms. Norton give us another exciting story in the Solar Queen series. This is #3. Dane Thorson gets involved in a conflict between apparent magic and poachers.