Note: Statement from Dell's July, 1967 paperback edition.

Hugo Award Winner If the title of this book should seem familiar it is because one-third of it, as a novella, won the Hugo Award, the Pulitzer Prize of Science-Fiction. This one-third has not been expanded; rather it has been added to the remaining two-thirds of the complete story to form this most unusual, exciting and never-before-published novel – Solder, Ask Not."

Synopsis: When mankind burst into the stars, the human psyche splintered - and humanity became many species, each a specialized overdevelopment of a single trait. Tam Olyn was a trained new observer from Old Earth - a complete man. To him the conflict between the fissuring worlds was at first a challenge, then a personal vendetta. The Friendlies were his enemy... in them blind fanatical faith had become an all-abiding obsession. The Dorsai were warrors, born and bred, but they had not used their talents for self-glory but had placed them - for a price - at the service of others. And when these two driving destructive talents of humanity met head on, Tam Olyn had a plan of his own for which cosmic humanity was not prepared. (from the back cover of the 1975 DAW Books edition)