A FREE SAMPLE FROM World Hammer (Predator Space Chronicles II) PROLOGUE All the stars of heaven fell. Or so it seemed. Amir Tarkos, human warrior of the Harmonizer corp, dropped toward the axis of a rotating black asteroid. He fell alone, a single man clad in vacuum armor. As the horizon grew to swallow half of space, the suns of the galaxy appeared to fall with him. The asteroid orbited a fading white dwarf that glowed, coldly dim, behind Tarkos. Around the dwarf star orbited a million asteroids, the cold and silent detritus of a dozen planets that had been destroyed when the sun flared, expanded, and then faded to a cinder. The other asteroids orbited so far out that, from their surfaces, the dwarf sun would seem little brighter than the other stars of the galaxy. But this aste

