Notes
The Genetic Menace, a novel by Robert E. Vardeman.

The second part of the Star Frontier Trilogy.

Publisher’s Blurb – Lower Cover
The Empire is crumbling internally, civil war rampant and the central authority unconcerned . . . as the Empire is being destroyed one planet at a time by the invading Alien Death Fleet. Pier Norlin finds himself caught between these two forces. How can the commander of a single warship of the Empire preserve all that he is honor-bound to defend?

Using a captured alien weapon, Norlin and the crew of the Preceptor set out to fight the inexorable tide of entropy destroying the Empire. Success is within their grasp until they encounter . . . the Genetic Menace.