ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

My thanks go to Joe Elder and Judy Travis for encouraging me to try something new, to Ginjer Buchanan for believing in it, to Dr. Sheridan Simon for his design of the Hudathan homeworld, the Hudathans themselves, the planet Algeron, the Naa, and the asteroid known as “Spindle,” to Tony Geraghty, author of March or Die, Christian Jennings, author of Mouthful of Rocks, John Robert Young, author of The French Foreign Legion, and last but certainly not least, the legionnaires themselves, past, present, and future, who know what it is to fight for lost causes.