The Outposter: Gordon R. Dickson

The colonists were chosen by lottery: when your number came up, you were herded into a spacer and shipped out. Guarding the unwilling settlers were the Outposters: soldiers, diplomats, traders...men as hard and deadly as the star-wastes themselves. They needed to be - the alien Meda V'Dan raided the colonies at will. But between the savage attacks of the alien race and the helpless colonists stood the Outposters. Mark Ten Roos was one, and from the scattered rabble of his lonely outpost he fashioned a space army that could destroy the Meda V'Dan.

































































































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