ALIEN CONFERENCE Faster-than-light travel to the stars was a discovery of the great Saunder family, and the vast Saunder fortune helped in the colonizing of alien worlds, among strange, nonhuman races. But Anthony Saunder had no share in that fortune or heritage. He was only a clone, the illegal result of a cruel woman"s whim, not truly human. And the business he had started on Procyon Four, making colonist"s emoto-tapes, was on the brink of failure. Then the catlike humanoid Whimeds came, asking him to use his skill in directing a presentation for the coming Interspecies Conference. And once he saw Yrae, their beautiful, almost human-seeming star, he could riot refuse, though the job seemed impossible and led to endless trouble. But all that was simple, compared to what he found at the Conference. There he ran squarely into the middle of a secret war between Whimeds and equally alien Vahnaj, fought across the bodies of his bitterest enemy and his best friend!