THE THREE SUNS OF
AMARA
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CAST OF CHARACTERS
THE EARTHMEN
Alexander Sherret: He believed that every man had a right to be himself, and he was ready to fight for that right.
Captain Maxton: He landed Alex on Amara—and left him.
Captain Bagshaw: He landed himself on Amara—and left himself.
THE NATIVES
Rosala: You could think of her as Circe, but it wasn’t at all accurate. Lee: He was trapped immovably between love and terror.
Canato: For him, one was company and two was a crowd.
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CHAPTER ONE
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THERE WAS always something new under the Three Suns.
Always new and usually inexplicable—if not downright crazy. On the astronomers’ charts the Three Suns bore dull number-plates: CXY
927340, CXY 927341, CXY 927342. The men from Earth called them simply by their colors: Blue, Yellow, Red. It seemed more than coincidence that these were the three primary colors. But if it were more, who could explain it?
Who could explain even half of what happened in the everchanging light of the Three Suns?
For instance, there was the orbit between them of CXY 927340/2-A. (Men again ignored the number-plate. To them, it was Amara.) Amara was a coveted only child, a living planet, and the Three Suns shared it among
