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    The People of the Crater
    The People of the Crater
    The People of the Crater
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    The People of the Crater

    By Andre Norton

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    Garin Featherstone is a pilot on an Antarctic expedition to investigate strange readings near the South Pole, when he is compelled to fly his plane down into a mysterious crater. There he finds an alien race and an ancient evil that he must face and destroy if he wants to leave the crater alive.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStart Publishing LLC
    Release dateMar 10, 2016
    ISBN9781682999547
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    Andre Norton

    Andre Norton was one of the most popular science fiction and fantasy authors in the world. With series such as Time Traders, Solar Queen, Forerunner, Beast Master, Crosstime, and Janus, as well as many standalone novels, her tales of adventure have drawn countless readers to science fiction. Her fantasy novels, including the bestselling Witch World series, her Magic series, and many other unrelated novels, have been popular with readers for decades. Lauded as a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, she is the recipient of a Life Achievement Award from the World Fantasy Convention. An Ohio native, Norton lived for many years in Winter Park, Florida, and died in March 2005 at her home in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

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      The People of the Crater - Andre Norton

      The People of the Crater

      by Andre Norton

      Table of Contents

      Through the Blue Haze

      The Folk of Tav

      Garin Hears of the Black Ones

      The Defeat of the Ancient Ones

      Into the Caves of Darkness

      Kepta’s Second Prisoner

      Kepta’s Trap

      Escape from the Caves

      Days of Preparation

      Battle and Victory

      Thrala’s Mate

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      Copyright © 2015 by Start Publishing LLC

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      First Start Publishing eBook edition July 2015

      Start Publishing is a registered trademark of Start Publishing LLC

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      ISBN 13: 978-1-68299-954-7

      Through the Blue Haze

      Six months and three days after the Peace of Shanghai was signed and the great War of 1965-1970 declared at an end by an exhausted world, a young man huddled on a park bench in New York, staring miserably at the gravel beneath his badly worn shoes. He had been trained to fill the pilot’s seat in the control cabin of a fighting plane and for nothing else. The search for a niche in civilian life had cost him both health and ambition.

      A newcomer dropped down on the other end of the bench. The flyer studied him bitterly. He had decent shoes, a warm coat, and that air of satisfaction with the world which is the result of economic security. Although he was well into middle age, the man had a compact grace of movement and an air of alertness.

      Aren’t you Captain Garin Featherstone?

      Startled, the flyer nodded dumbly.

      From a plump billfold the man drew a clipping and waved it toward his seat mate. Two years before, Captain Garin Featherstone of the United Democratic Forces had led a perilous bombing raid into the wilds of Siberia to wipe out the vast expeditionary army secretly gathering there. It had been a spectacular affair and had brought the survivors some fleeting fame.

      You’re the sort of chap I’ve been looking for, the stranger folded the clipping again, a flyer with courage, initiative and brains. The man who led that raid is worth investing in.

      What’s the proposition? asked Featherstone wearily. He no longer believed in luck.

      I’m Gregory Farson, the other returned as if that should answer the question.

      The Antarctic man!

      Just so. As you have probably heard, I was halted on the eve of my last expedition by the sudden spread of war to this country. Now I am preparing to sail south again.

      But I don’t see—

      How you can help me? Very simple, Captain Featherstone. I need pilots. Unfortunately the war has disposed of most of them. I’m lucky to contact one such as yourself—

      *

      And it was as simple as that. But Garin didn’t really believe that it was more than a dream until they touched the glacial shores of the polar continent some months later. As they brought ashore the three large planes, he began to wonder at the driving motive behind Farson’s vague plans.

      When the supply ship sailed, not to return for a year, Farson called them together. Three of the company were pilots, all war veterans, and two were engineers who spent most of their waking hours engrossed in the maps Farson produced.

      *

      Tomorrow, the leader glanced from face to face, we start inland. Here— On a map spread before him he indicated a line marked in purple.

      "Ten years ago I was a member of the Verdane expedition. Once, when flying due south, our plane was caught by some freakish air current and drawn off its course. When we were totally off our map, we saw in the distance a thick bluish haze. It seemed to rise in a straight line from the ice plain to the sky. Unfortunately our fuel was low and we dared not risk a closer investigation. So we fought our way back to the base.

      Verdane, however, had little interest in our report and we did not investigate it. Three years ago that Kattack expedition, hunting oil deposits by the order of the Dictator, reported seeing the same haze. This time we are going to explore it!

      Why, Garin asked curiously, are you so eager to penetrate this haze?—I gather that’s what we’re to do—

      Farson hesitated before answering. "It has often been suggested that beneath the ice sheeting of this continent may be hidden mineral wealth. I believe that the haze is caused by some form of

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