Higher Education

HIGHER EDUCATION

A Jupiter™ Novel

Charles Sheffield and Jerry Pournelle

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

Copyright ©January 1996, by Kirkwood Research Inc., and Jerry Pournelle. A modified version of this novel was serialized in Analog magazine.

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.

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Baen Publishing Enterprises

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Riverdale, NY 10471

ISBN10: 0-312-86174-5

ISBN13: 978-0-312-86174-2

Jacket art by Vincent di Fate Jacket

design by Michael Graziolo

First Printing, June 1996 by Tor Books

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Sheffield, Charles.

Higher education / Charles Sheffield & Jerry Pournelle.

p. c.m.

“A Tom Doherty Associates book.”

ISBN 0-312-86174-5

I. Pournelle, Jerry. II. Title.

PS3569.H39253H54 ' 1996

813'54—dc20 95-52875 CIP

First Edition: June 1996

Printed in the United States of America