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The Bluff of the Hawk, by Anthony Gilmore
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Title: The Bluff of the Hawk
Author: Anthony Gilmore
Release Date: July 3, 2009 [EBook #29298]
Language: English
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This etext was produced from Astounding Stories May 1932. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.
[Illustration: Nothing there could withstand him.]
The Bluff of the Hawk
By Anthony Gilmore
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[Sidenote: "A trick? Carse was famed for them. A trap? But how?"]
Had not old John Sewell, the historian, recognized Hawk Carse for what he was--a creator of new space-frontiers, pioneer of vast territories for commerce, molder of history through his long feud with the powerful Eurasian scientist, Ku Sui--the adventurer would doubtless have passed into oblivion like other long-forgotten spacemen. We have Sewell's industry to thank for our basic knowledge of Carse. His "Space-Frontiers of the Last Century" is a thorough work and the accepted standard, but even it had of necessity to be compressed, and many meaty episodes of