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BL
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966083
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b720453
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| Main Entry
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Anderson, Poul,1926-2001.
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| Title & Author
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The Van Rijn method /\ by Poul Anderson ; compiled by Hank Davis.
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| Publication Statement
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Riverdale, N.Y. :: Baen ;London :: Diamond [distributor],, 2009.
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| Series Statement
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The technic civilization saga
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| Page. NO
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xvi, 635 pages ;; 17 cm.
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| ISBN
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1439133263
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: 9781439133262
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| Notes
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Originally published: 2008.
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| Contents
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Planets and profits / by Hank Davis -- The Saturn game -- Wings of victory -- The problem of pain -- Margin of profit -- How to be ethnic in one easy lesson -- The three-cornered wheel -- A sun invisible -- The season of forgiveness -- The man who counts -- Esau -- Hiding place.
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| Abstract
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When the human race spread out among the stars, they took the profit motive with them, and none exemplified that fact better than Nicholas Van Rijn, interstellar trader and capitalist extraordinaire. He might look like Falstaff and talk in a steady stream of malapropisms, but anybody who might take him for a bumbling buffoon would quickly find themselves taken--to the cleaners!
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Science fiction, American.
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Human-alien encounters, Fiction.
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Interplanetary voyages, Fiction.
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Life on other planets, Fiction.
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Science fiction, American.
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| Dewey Classification
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813.54
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| LC Classification
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PS3551.N378V36 2009
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| Added Entry
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Davis, Hank,1944-
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