THE NITROGEN FIX

A distant second…but thanks

Copyright 1980 by

Illustrations copyright 1980 by Janet Aulisio

CONTENTS

Delivery, Delayed

Cooling, Carefully

Morals, Mostly

Unknown, Unless

Captive, Curiously

Invaders, Indefinitely

Captured, Conditionally

Doubt, Duplicated

Arson, Aggravated

Contretemps, Confused

Experiment, Educational

Menace, Misunderstood

Peregrination, Painful

History, Hazily

Debate, Directed

Action, Antagonistic

Mail, Melanic

Variations, Violent

Mystery, Metallic

Answers, Applied

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All characters in this book are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

An ACE Book

First Ace Printing: September 1980

First Mass Market Edition: October 1981

Published Simultaneously in Canada

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Manufactured in the United States of America