title: A Vision of Fire (Earthend Saga)
author:  Gillian Anderson 
description: Gillian Anderson is an award-winning film, television, and theater actor and producer, writer, and activist. She currently lives in London with her daughter and two sons.
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  Andre Norton - Solar Queen 7 - A Mind For Trade
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Chapter One
  
  
  "They're going to fire!"
  
  
  The shout seemed to come from everywhere.
  
  
  Dane Thorson tried to run, but his legs churned without propelling him
  forward. Terrified, he looked behind, saw sinister black shapes, like bombs,
  floating through the air. There were thousands of them. In the garish light
  around him ghosts drifted. Some of the faces were familiar. Childhood faces,
  half-remembered. From the Pool? No.
  
  
  "Eeeeeee-yaaagh!"
  
  
  The scream ripped through Dane's head, pulling him violently into
  consciousness.
  
  
  He sat up in his bunk, blinking against the soft, steady bulkhead night-light
  as shreds and tatters of the dream drifted across his vision, and vanished. He
  was not running from impending attack, he was safely in his bunk aboard the
  North Star, where he was the cargo master.
  
  
  He took a d