The Witches of Karres
 NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED . . .
Captain Pausert thought his luck had finally turned—but he did not yet realize it was a turn for the worse. On second thought, make that a turn for the disastrous*.
Unlucky in love, unsuccessful in business, he thought he had finally made good with his battered starship Venture, cruising around the fringes of the Empire and successfully selling off odd-ball cargoes which no one else had been able to sell. He was all set to return home, where his true love was faithfully waiting for him ... he hoped.
But then he made the fatal mistake of freeing three slave children from their masters (who were suspiciously eager to part with them). They were just trying to be helpful, but those three adorable little girls quickly made Pausert the mortal enemy of his fiancee, his home planet, the Empire, warlike Sirians, psychopathic Uldanians, the dread pirate chieftain Laes Yango—and even the Worm World, the darkest threat to mankind in all of space.
And all because those harmless-looking little girls were in fact three of the notorious and universally feared Witches of Karres. A rollicking novel from the master of space adventure.
Cover art by Kurt Miller
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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.
First Baen printing, July 2004
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Schmitz, James H., 1911-
Witches of Karres / by James Schmitz; edited by Eric Flint.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-7434-8837-7
1. Space ships--Fiction. 2. Women slaves--Fiction. 3. Witches--Fiction.
I. Flint, Eric. II. Title.
PS3569.C5175W58 2004
813'.54--dc22
2004009762 |
ISBN: 0-7434-8837-7
Copyright 1966 by James Schmitz & edited by Eric Flint
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