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General Benjamin Shore was heading for the stars - under forged orders and in defiance of Presidential commands. He was leaving Earth in an untested ship with a crew chosen by necessity. And with nothing but faith to guide him. His only hope was to find habitable worlds in the uncharted regions of space ahead. Thus began Man's first mission to the unexplored universe. Shore knew that before him lay danger, probable disillusion - maybe even death. But nothing had prepared him for the nightmare he would face on the planet of the Grey-fursfor the menace of the Golden People who had driven all other races from Galactic Centreor for what awaited him if he returned to the world he called home Gordon R. Dickson (1923 - 2001) Gordon Rupert Dickson was born in Alberta, Canada, in 1923 but resided in the United States from the age of thirteen. Along with Robert A. Heinlein, he is regarded as one of the fathers of military space opera, his Dorsai! sequence being an early exemplar of both military SF and Future History. Dickson was one of the rare breed of authors as well known for his fantasy as his SF - The Dragon and the George, the first novel in his Dragon Knight sequence, was shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award and won the British Fantasy Award. Dickson's work also won him three Hugos and Nebula. He died in 2001.