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Earth set itself grimly to meet them with / corrosive fire, determined to blast them / back to the stars. But they erred in thinking / the Old Ones were too big to be clever.
In the last hours the star ahead had grown brighter by many magnitudes, and had changed its color from a dazzling blue through white to the normal yellow, of a GO sun. That was the Doppler effect as the star's radial velocity changed relative to the _Quest III_, as for forty hours the ship had decelerated.