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*The Sergeant Who Hated Everyone* * * * * I wasn't there to fight a war (said Gaines). I was a bounty hunter, not a soldier. I'd spent the better part of a year looking for Mad Jesse Wilkins. He'd killed more than three dozen men back in the Monarchy, as well as a fair number of women, children, dogs, cats, and alien pets. He lit out for the Frontier when he found out that I was on his trail. I just missed him by a day on Roosevelt III, and I was no more than half an hour behind him when he made his escape from Far London. He headed toward the Albion Cluster, changed his identity and signed on as a sergeant in the Peloponnesian War --a neat little riff on the notion of the coward hiding out in the middle of a battlefield. By the time I got there the war was over. There was nothing but a huge crater where the human headquarters and landing field had been --* * * * "Just call me Bullseye Max!" shouted Max with a laugh. "I never miss what I aim for!" I had an urge to order the men's room servo-mech to tell everyone whether Max |
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