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Plague Ship by Andre Norton

Plague Ship

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Andre Norton

Start Publishing LLC · Ebook · March 3, 2016

The Solar Queen and her crew have the trading rights to the wealthy planet Sargol, but to take advantage of them and see any return on their investment they must fight the Reptilian Gorp, negotiate with the cat-like Salariki, and find a cure for the sleeping sickness that has caused the Solar Queen to be called a plague ship and which has other ships looking to destroy them on sight.

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Who it’s for
Trade, diplomacy, and a spreading sickness make this space adventure a lively tangle of competing dangers.
Genres
Space Opera, Alien Contact, Sci-Fi Adventure
Published
Start Publishing LLC, March 3, 2016

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About this book

The Solar Queen and her crew have the trading rights to the wealthy planet Sargol, but to take advantage of them and see any return on their investment they must fight the Reptilian Gorp, negotiate with the cat-like Salariki, and find a cure for the sleeping sickness that has caused the Solar Queen to be called a plague ship and which has other ships looking to destroy them on sight.

Trade Under Pressure

Trade, diplomacy, and a spreading sickness make this space adventure a lively tangle of competing dangers.

Come here for

  • Spacefaring trade tangled with alien encounters and urgent danger
  • A classic adventure built around a crew’s hard-won rights

Expect

  • A plague-ship predicament with hostile ships close behind
  • Negotiations with the cat-like Salariki and conflict with the Gorp

Where it sits

Space Opera98%
Alien Contact63%
Sci-Fi Adventure50%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • The Classics
  • Sci-Fi Adventure
  • Space Opera
Authors
Andre Norton
Publisher
Start Publishing LLC
Published
March 3, 2016
Format
Ebook
Reading lane
The Classics