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IT DIDNT look at all like an alien planet. Larry Montray standing on the long ramp that led downward from the giant spaceship felt thecold touch of sharp disillusion and disappointment. Darkover. Hundreds of lightyears fromEarth a strange world under a strange sun—and it didnt look different at all. It was night. Below him lay the spaceport lighted almost to a daytime dazzle by rows of blue-white arclights an enormous flat expanse of concrete ramps and runways the blurred outlinesof the giant starships dim through the lights levels and stairways and ramps leading upward tothe lines of high streets and the dark shapes of skyscrapers beyond the port. But Larry hadseen spaceships and spaceports on Earth. With a father in the service of the Terran Empire yougot used to seeing things like that. He didnt know what hed expected of the new world—but he hadnt expected it to look just likeany spaceport on Earth Hed expected so much . . . . Of course Larry had always known that hed go out into space someday. The Terran Empire hadspread itself over a thousand worlds surrounding a thousand suns and no son of Terra everconsidered staying there all his life. But hed been resigned to waiting at least a few more years. In the old days before startravel a boy of sixteen could ship out as cabin boy on a windjammer
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