—And Devious the Line of Duty

Tom Godwin

_The transport ship, bound for Capella with Outlander colonists from Earth and Frontier Guards from Arcturus, struck the hyperspace vortex without warning.

Tom Godwin

(original title: _The Survivors_) A PYRAMID BOOK published by arrangement with Gnome Press, Inc.

Tom Godwin

[Illustration] The cruiser vanished back into hyperspace and he was alone in the observation bubble, ten thousand light-years beyond the galaxy's outermost sun.

Tom Godwin

Carl Engle stood aside as the flight preparation crew filed out of the _Argosy_'s airlock.

Washington Irving

A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer sky.

Ayn Rand

PART ONE It is a sin to write this.

Aristophanes

statement is made that it may be rejected.

William Strunk

This book aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style.