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The most dangerous of animals is not the biggest and fiercest--but the one that‘s hardest to stop. Add intelligence to that ... and you may come to a wrong conclusion as to what the worst menace is....

* * * * * For twelve years at a point where three major shipping routes of the Federation of the Hub crossed within a few hours‘ flight of one another, the Seventh Star Hotel had floated in space, a great golden sphere, gleaming softly in the void through its translucent shells of battle plastic. The Star had been designed to be much more than a convenient transfer station for travelers and freight； for some years after it was opened to the public, it retained a high rating among the more exotic pleasure resorts of the Hub. The Seventh Star Hotel was the place to have been that season, and the celebrities and fat cats converged on it with their pals and hangers-on. The Star blazed with life, excitement, inters

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