Dragon Shapes

The Star Fox, Part Two, VIII.

On Staurn, one of Heim's crew and one of his antagonists die. Afterwards, he says:

"'Two good men died...'" (p. 132)

It is pointless to continue the disagreement after the separation of death.

I have checked and confirmed that the original magazine versions of all three parts of The Star Fox are reprinted in Volumes 2, 3 and 4, respectively, of the NESFA Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson so all three of those covers will be reproduced here. The sequel, Fire Time, cannot be in any of the NESFA volumes because it is not a short work.

Part Two ends:

"...he looked out. A flock of Staurni hunters was taking off. Sunlight flared across their weapons. The turmoil in him changed toward eagerness - to be away, to sail his ship again - as he watched those dragon shapes mount into the sky." (p. 135)

What a great send-off for Staurn! The Staurni appear only here unlike the Ythrians who get their own mini-series within Anderson's Technic History.

At last, in Part Three, Heim will go into action against the current enemy, the Aleriona.