Eric Frank Russell
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Something bizarre is happening among the government workers at weapons laboratories across the United States. Increasing numbers of employees are abandoning their jobs for no apparent reason, some of them committing suicide, others trading their high-profile, specialized careers for unskilled jobs in obscure towns. One such employee, metallurgist Richard Bransome, is drinking coffee at a café when he overhears a conversation about a long-ago murder...
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Mission of Empire: Earthmen had colonized hundreds of planets in the four centuries of deep space exploration - independent new civilizations founded by the discontented and adventurous of Terra. Trouble was, they were too independent - and the Terran government had ambitions for a space empire. A giant battle cruiser went out into the starlanes, with instructions to persuade the colonial planets to join the Empire - and with a couple of thousand...