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Tonight We Steal the Stars / The Wagered World
Tonight We Steal the Stars / The Wagered World Author:John Jakes, Laurence M. Janifer, S. J. Treibich Tonight We Steal the Stars: Theft of the Seven Stars is impossible, yet somewhere in II Galaxy there are hushed voices, and secretive eyes, and long dreams of the Seven Stars clasped within a closed hand. — And somewhere else in II Galaxy there is a powerful and hulking man with golden eyes who could not even in the wildest drugd... more »ream conceive of his fate being tangled up within the Seven Stars.
This burly man will begin a hunt to stop the most dangerous and daring crime in history--and he will end the hunt as one of those who make impossible possible. His name is Wolf Dragonard. This is his adventure, in the ninth age of the star kings of II Galaxy.
The Wagered World: Having survived a brief invasion from unknown space aliens, the UN selected Angelo diStefano and his crewmates to pilot a newly built starcraft out in the Great Beyond. Nobody knew how the ship worked--the plans for it had been among the invaders' debris--but for some reason everyone seemed to regard Angelo as an expendable astronaut.
The ship took off and it landed too. But where it came to rest was not on a planet, not in the void of outer space, but inside another spaceship. What was going on there was equally unexpected--it was a cocktail party for the over six hundred races of the Galactic Agreement (whatever that was).
And though a gate crasher, Angelo was invited to join the fun and place a bet on the major attraction party game. It was only after he had put up his marker that he learned that he had wagered nothing less than the whole Earth on a single play.« less