Legacy Author:James H. Schmitz Originally published as "A Tale of Two Clocks" (1962). — Consider the Plasmoids...Ancient living machines that after millennia of stillness suddenly begin to move under their own power, for reasons that remain a mystery to men. Holati Tate discovered them--then disappeared. Trigger Argee was his closest associate--she means to find him. She'... more »s brilliant, beautiful, and skilled in every know martial art. She's worth plenty--dead or alive--to more than one faction in this obscure battle. And she's beginning to have a chilling notion that the long-vanished Masters of the Old Galaxy were wise when they exiled the plasmoids to the most distant and isolated world they knew....« less