STAR GUARD By Andre Norton Cover by Ed Emshwiller - Kana Karr was a young swordsman, a wielder of a medieval weapon in a super-scientific galaxy of limitless destruction. As an Earthman, he was nothing more than a hired mercenary sent to kill or be killed at the command of the oppressive Central Control. - On a seemingly routine police action to the planet Fronn, Kana learned of a plot that threatened to overturn the balance of power held by the Galactic authority. The liberation of Earth might hinge on the outcome of the plot! PLANET OF NO RETURN By Poul Anderson Cover by Ed Valigursky - The crew of the second expedition to Lagrange's Planet was a dangerously unstable one, for their exploration ship was extremely unpopular. There had been outcries against it, sabotage attempts, and the government frowned on it. - Yet—-the teeming population of Earth needed a new planet to colonize. Habitable worlds were so few and far between-and so often claimed by inhospitable aliens. Why the antagonism? Why the lack of suitable volunteers, when their destination might provide the long-sought solution?
