Agent of the Terran Empire Author:Poul Anderson Hard to believe that the blood of the conqueroros once flowed int the veins of the men of terra... It pleased Ruethen of the long hand to give a feast and ball at the crystal moon for his enemies. He knew they must come. Pride of race had slipped from Terra, while the need to appear well-bred and sophisticated had waxed correspondingly. The ... more »fact that spaceships prowled and fought, fifty light-years beyond Antares, made it all the more impossible a gaucherie to refuse an invitation form the merseian representative. Besides one could feel. delightfully wicked and ever so delicately in danger...« less