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Venus was a world enslaved. And then, like an avenging angel, fanning the flames of raging revolt, came a warrior-princess in whose mind lay dread knowledge -- the knowledge of a weapon so terrible it had been used but once in the history of the universe.
"Purple! " Mark Denning almost sobbed. "A purple Josmian! " Forgetting the sweat in his eyes and the insufferable heat about him, his clutching hand held up the mud-dripping globe the size of a baseball, iridescent in the Venusian night.