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Valgolia, a globe in the Epsilon Eridani superstar system, conquered Earth generations back, but their conquest was imperfect. While Valgolians made possible greater prosperity, widespread health, and interstellar trade for all those Earthlings, the factional frictions of Earth - race against race, religion against religion, culture against culture - continue to bedevil the Valgolian's perspective of a peaceable world for all those mankind. A world which, once helped bring around to the thought of equality for all those Earthlings, you will need to join the larger community of the galaxy. In Inside Earth, first released in 1951, get better at science fiction writer Poul Anderson organized a perspective of America and the planet struggling generations later with the ancient animosities that no war ever seems to vanquish. This fascinating short story hints at a distinctive solution to that never-ending circuit of social, economical, political, and religious discontent. Could an authentic global serenity among all mankind be advertised by conquistadors from another world? Conquerors whose viewpoint is not split to overcome, but overcome to unite? That's not how the women and men of Earth view it. Earthlings see only copper-skinned, black-crest-headed rulers in their Valgolian masters, in support of rebellion will reboot the planet to its former self. Rebel forces wanting to overthrow the Valgolians have begun to coalesce and promote insurgencies around the world, insurgencies with the capacity of retaking Earth by introducing an assault on Valgolia itself from a covert basic way out in space. The Valgolians are well-aware of the pending rebellion; in reality, they can be secretly promoting it, with the aid of one of their own...a Valgolian military officer known as Conru. Surgically-modified to remove all traces of his home globe physiology and made to look just as much an Earthing as is possible, Conru vacations across THE UNITED STATES as Conrad Haugen, a Norwegian-American playing the role of a discontented wanderer troubled to become listed on the rebellion's Legion of Independence. From the Rockies to the factories of New Chicago to remote Hood Island off the shoreline of Maine, Haugen the provocateur listens to the reduced populace, makes the respect of key rebels, and works his way into the higher echelons of the Legion's forces. But Haugen's mission includes a price: a bit of his heart. In Maine, he fits the stunning, enigmatic Barbara Hood, whose hatred of most things Valgolian stokes the hearth of rebellion burning up insider her. So excellent is Haugen's cover, though, and so profound is his genuine love for this girl of Earth, and hers for him, that she never suspects his mission or his treachery. As the plans for the ultimate assault on the Valgolian empire get together, Haugen, now a appreciated and trusted property to the rebels on their main base globe, stands at the tipping point of the battle's results. His love of Barbara is strong, but could it be more powerful than his devotion to his home world and the Valgolian empire? The alert sirens are blaring, the fleets are massing. The struggle for Earth is on. Or could it be?