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Since the dreaded Xik destroyed Earth, the corps of Beast Masters and the animal teams with which

they have telepathic rapport have served as sentinels against the Xik and other threats to colony worlds

throughout the galaxy.

Now a conspiracy with ties to the Thieves Guild is trying to kidnap the Beast Masters' team animals.

On one world after another, they are attacking Beast Masters and targeting their animals, leaving a trail of

dead or wounded Beast Masters and their animals in their wake. They haven't yet succeeded in capturing

one alive ... but they are still trying, and they're becoming more desperate—and bolder.

Laris is a young woman who works for a space-faring circus, a bonded slave to its manager. An

orphan with a troubled past, Laris is gifted with animals, a valuable asset to the circus and to her boss.

But she's learned that somehow there's a connection between him and the Thieves Guild, and also the

attempted abductions of Beast Masters' animals. She also knows that if her boss finds out what she has

discovered, it would make her a problem, and he usually disposes of problems.

When the circus lands on Arzor, home to Beast Masters Hosteen and Tani Storm, Laris feels a

kinship to them and to Hosteen's family, the Quades. She realizes, however, that she may be endangering

them by exposing them to the dark interest of her boss and his ill-intentioned friends. Hosteen and Tani

like Laris, too, as does Logan Quade. She would give anything to tell them her dangerous secret but

cannot. Because she knows that her friendship with the Beast Masters could be their downfall, as well as

her own!

ANDRE NORTON, named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America and the

recipient of a Life Achievement World Fantasy Award, is the author of more than one hundred novels of

science fiction and fantasy adventure. Beloved by legions of readers the world over, she has thrilled

generations with such series as Beast Master, Time Traders, The Solar Queen, Witch World, and

others. She continues to write, and presides over a unique writers' resource, High Hallack, in

Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Visit her Web site at www.andre-norton.org.

LYN MCCONCHIE is the author, with Andre Norton, of Beast Master's Ark and other novels, as

well as her own fiction. A native of New Zealand, she has been awarded the Sir Julius Vogel Award for

Best Science Fiction or Fantasy Novel of 2002 by a New Zealander, for Beast Master's Ark.

BEAST MASTER'S CIRCUS

Andre Norton

And

Lyn McConchie

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this novel are either fictitious or are

used fictitiously.

BEAST MASTER'S CIRCUS

This book is printed on acid-free paper.

Edited by James Frenkel

A Tor Book

Published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC

175 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10010

www.tor.com

Tor® is a registered trademark of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Norton, Andre.

Beast master's circus / Andre Norton and Lyn McConchie.—1st ed.

p. cm.

"A Tom Doherty Associates book."

ISBN 0-765-30042-7

1. Storm, Hosteen (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Human-animal communication—Fiction. 3. Life

on other planets—Fiction. 4. Circus performers—Fiction. 5. Space colonies—Fiction. I. McConchie,

Lyn, 1946—II. Title.

PS3527.O632B57 2004

813'.52—dc22

2003060697

First Edition: February 2004

Printed in the United States of America

0987654321

Dedication

To the cats whose lives have enlivened my own reading for so many

years. To Midnight Louie, and Carole Nelson Douglas. To Koko and

Yum Yum, and Lilian Jackson Braun. To Solomon, Sheba, Sealy,

ShebaLu, and Saska, and Doreen Tovey; and to the many cats, real and

fictional, of Andre Norton (Chang-Un in particular).

May they find Prauo a worthy successor.

—L.M.

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