Free ebook: The Defiant Agents, by Andre Norton

The Defiant Agents, by Andre Norton was published in 1962.

200805211044.jpg Alien technology scavenged by U.S. and Russian scientists has started a race to colonize planets outside our solar system — and the U.S. scientists are losing! In a desperate move the U.S. government decides to use a group of Apache volunteers in an experimental attempt to colonize a primitive planet, but before they can even begin their spaceship crashes on the planet Topaz…

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