Hi David,

Thank you for another of series I'll have to add to my wish list. The series you mentioned is not the book title or series I was thinking about.

James Alan Gardner wrote a five book series in the League of People focusing on the career of Festina Ramos. In Book 1 Expendable the Explorer Corps is a service that only recruits those sophonts that are "different, flawed, ugly, or strange". Festina Ramos was born with a "port-wine birth mark covering the right of her face." Festina and other members of her service unofficially call themselves "Expendable Crew Members" or "ECMs for short." They are the first to "land on hostile planets, make first contact with alien cultures, and "anyplace the Admiralty didn't know what the hell to expect."

Tom Rux

> On 07/25/2020 2:20 AM David Jaques-Watson <xxxxxx@pcug.org.au> wrote:
>
>
> Dear Folks –
>
> TomB wrote:
> > There was a scifi novel some years back called I think The Expendables
> > that covered the individuals that did high risk explorations.
>
> The Expendables are a great series of books, if you can find them at
> second-hand stores. Edmund Cooper, author of _The Uncertain Midnight_,
> writing as Richard Avery.
>
> Includes "proving" new worlds, cold sleep, robots, and bionics.
>
> The Expendables (1) The Deathworms of Kratos
> The Expendables (2) The Rings of Tantalus
> The Expendables (3) The War Games of Zelos
> The Expendables (4) The Venom of Argus
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Cooper#As_Richard_Avery
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