Book 12. (1 results) Beasts of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 18 | The remnants of a shattered View more quotes about species">species then, as a world burned below them, turned hunting to the plains of the stars. |
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Book 12. (7 results) Beasts of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 15 | This story, in its way, has no clear beginning. |
| 1 | 16 | It began, I suppose, some thousands of years ago when Kurii, in internecine wars, destroyed the viability of a native world. |
| 1 | 17 | Their state at that time was sufficiently advanced technologically to construct small steel worlds in orbit, each some pasangs in diameter. |
| 1 | 18 | The remnants of a shattered species then, as a world burned below them, turned hunting to the plains of the stars. |
| 1 | 19 | We do not know how long their hunt took. |
| 1 | 20 | But we do know the worlds, long ago, entered the system of a slow-revolving, medium-sized yellow star occupying a peripheral position in one of nature's bounteous, gleaming, strewn spiral universes. |
| 1 | 21 | They had found their quarry, a world. |
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This story, in its way, has no clear beginning.
It began, I suppose, some thousands of years ago when Kurii, in internecine wars, destroyed the viability of a native world.
Their state at that time was sufficiently advanced technologically to construct small steel worlds in orbit, each some pasangs in diameter.
The remnants of a shattered species then, as a world burned below them, turned hunting to the plains of the stars.
We do not know how long their hunt took.
But we do know the worlds, long ago, entered the system of a slow-revolving, medium-sized yellow star occupying a peripheral position in one of nature's bounteous, gleaming, strewn spiral universes.
They had found their quarry, a world.
- (Beasts of Gor)