The Defiant Agents

Title attributed to Andre Norton

& # 3 in the Time Travel series (aka) Time War or Ross Murdock or Time Traders

Bibliography ~

¯ (1962) * Published by World, HC, WP262, LCCN 62009063, $3.50, 224pg ~ cover by Ed Emshwiller {Black Cloth Boards}

¯ (1963) * Published by ACE, PB, # F-183, $0.40, 192pg ~ cover by Ed Emshwiller ~ 1972-75 covers by Adams, 1978 cover by Davis Meltzer, 1980 & later covers by Walter Valez

¯ (1978) * Published by Gregg Press, HC, 0-839-82423-6, LCCN 78020923, $8.95, 190pg ~ Time Trader Series 3 ~ Dust Jacket and Frontmatter by Wayne Barlowe ~ {Binding: 5.625 x 8.25 - Dark Blue Cloth Boards with Silver Lettering, Blue End Papers} ~ See Gregg Press Page for list of complete set.

¯ Time Traders II (2001) * Published by BAEN, HC, 0-671-31968-X, LCCN 00049426, $19.00, 370pg ~ cover by Stephen Hickman ~ Omnibus containing The Defiant Agents (1962) & Key Out of Time (1963)

¯ NOTE: This Title has entered the “Public Domain” and is therefore open to any publisher that wants to print it. Many “Print on Demand” publishers have started to release this title. It is my decision as creator of this site to ignore these published versions. A good place to find them is Amazon.com however now that Amazon is releasing this title for their electronic reader “Kindle” they are not listing all of the published editions either.

Non English Editions ~

¯ (1964) Published in Munich, Germany; in Moewig, OCLC: 73741701, Terra SF370, 66pg ~ German title Schiffbruch der Zeitagenten

¯ (1993) Published in Budapest, Hungary; by Pheonix, 963-7606-95-6, 187pg ~ Hungarian title A végzetes csata: Időharcosok 3

¯ (1974) Published in Japan; by Bookstore Books Jubo, 47-659-1535-2, QT 19, 208pg ~ translated by Symphony Hinatsu ~ cover by Tsunoda Sumio ~ Japanese title 崩壊した銀河文明

¯ (1994) Published in Poznań, Poland; by Wydawnictwo Poznańskie, 83-861-3803-3, 213pg ~ translated by Marta Starczewska ~ Polish title Zuchwali Agenci

¯ (1999) Published in Poland; by Amber, 83-7245-186-9, 158pg ~ translated by Hanna Szczerkowska ~ Polish title Bunt Agentów

Synopsis ~

In this near future book the US is in a race with the Russians to use alien technology scavenged from crashed spaceships to colonize planets outside our solar system. Because they feel that they are in danger of losing this race, men working for the United States government have decided to use a group of volunteers from the Apache tribe as subjects in an experiment without their knowledge. By use of the Redax, the volunteers will be made to think and act as Apaches of the 18th and 19th centuries would respond. It is hoped this would help them better adapt to life on a primitive planet. However, the spaceship they are traveling in crashes on the planet of Topaz. Travis Fox escapes with a group of the surviving volunteers. In exploring the planet he learns that they are not the only group on the planet. The Russians using their own version of the Redax have Mongol nomads as their subjects.

Non-English Covers

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