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HELP WANTED!
rpHE
-*-
editorial
in the Oct.
"To
when
alarmingly clear
it.
All of us,
stated,
the Hills!"
rubber
bands,
pencils,
string, glue, clothes hangers and
such
without any of us ever
clips,
items,
clothes on.
A.F.B., Cal.
burning]"
City, Iowa:
rubber bands, paper clips
and bobby pins vanish. I can
never find a pencil when I want
one and I buy them by the dozen.
Oh, the humiliation! I'm be-
"My
by extraterrestrials
ing snubbed
yet!"
"Millions of people
cher-
McComas, can
Francis
cate
any
never lo-
of the items.
Raymond
L. Allard,
Minneap-
else uses."
exchange."
Lt.
loss,
5^.
When
one of his
he finally finds
of hairpins,
seashells
and cray-
olas.
He accumulates newspapers. I
hadn't thought of that as one of
the invasion weapons, but it could
be.
He
lengths
has pencils of
all
sizes,
heap ot used
HELP
WANTED!
I'll
when
explain that
What
does he
mean
Fla., is not
when
flashbulbs.
string
number
clips!
H.
L.
GOLD
BEEP
By JAMES BLISH
<&>
<&*
Galaxy
always there
Illustrated
peace
before trouble
in
It
the
was
started.'
by EMSH
make
BEEP
that it wouldn't
the slightest bit of differ-
instructions,
ence
if
he
meets-girl
important situations
The dangerous situa-
years ago
the
really
came
off.
not
boy-meets-girl.
This affair of the Black Horse
tions
and Jo's practiced eye had picked up the mention. Something big
was cooking.
Today it had boiled over the
Black Horse Nebula had suddenly spewed ships by the hundreds,
a massed armada that must have
taken more than a century of
effort on the part of a whole
production drive
conducted in the strictest and
most fanatical kind of secrecy
And, of course, the Service had
been on the spot in plenty of time.
With three times as many ships,
disposed with mathematical prestar-cluster,
Of
course.
drew
8
his
attention
briefly.
He
14:58:03.
time, ac-
strictest
meets-girl
assignments.
But,' as
WITH
He wondered what
would happen were he to pull
reluctantly.
pleasant.
The
The
press
was
free,
dolph as everywhere.
It
reported
where else, would have been noand reported on. The Service
did not forbid such reports for
ticed
his
mask
of friend-
ly innocuousness.
on Ran-
BEEP
he stripped himself of the mustache, the bald spot, the foreheadcreases all the make-up which
"Sure
HQ,
will
you?"
enough." The
his machine.
hoppy
gunned
It
smoothly to the express
rose
level.
"First time
lieve
it
at first
when
saw you
about
everything before it
breaks. You must have a thousand faces each, your own mother
wouldn't know you, eh? Don't
you care if I know about your
all
amined it critically.
"Of course not. Disguise
is an
elementary part of Service work.
Anyone could guess that. We
"Oh."
The
hoppy
sounded
"Thanks."
Jo went directly to Krasna's
office. Krasna was a Randolpher,
Earth-trained, and answerable to
the Earth office, but otherwise
pretty much on his own. His
heavy, muscular face wore the
same expression
fidence that was
of serene
con-
characteristic of
even
to you,
your mind?"
"Well," Jo said carefully. "I'm
wondering why you patted me on
the back just now for not doing
a job."
"You
did a job."
10
Jo said
flatly.
"Boy
It has in all
boy-meets-girl cases, and it
has in the boy-meets-girl cases
of every other agent with whom
my
I've
compared
notes."
to have
spot,
somebody with
the
Jo,
the
a reputation
as you've
there were?"
is,
But
if
Jo snorted. "If what you're tryto do is to establish preconditions for the future, any
interference by a Service agent
would throw the eventual result
ing
much about
know
that
probability."
pies on your
sible?"
and
lit it
deliberately;
it
was
mitter
it's
of course there's a
things."
"I see that,"
in
his
chair,
Jo
said.
He
formulating
shifted
all
he
He
changed his
mind about the cigarette and
helped himself to one. "But these
things don't add up to infallibility
and that's a qualitative
wanted to say.
difference, Kras.
of the
Take
this affair
moment
we'll
it
to as-
BEEP
if
is
instantaneous.
it
concentrating until
T7"RASNA
*"-
even
it
that's been
for
Good
centuries.
Lord,
it
thing,"
in a general
is
likely to behave, or
of children the
what I see."
Krasna laughed.
believe
"That's a
very able presentation," he said.
He seemed genuinely pleased. "I
think you'll remember that you
were first impressed into the
Service
to
won-
promoted!"
"I have?" Jo said incredulously. "I came in here with the
notion that I might get myself
fired."
"No.
Come around
to this side
small
surface.
Watch."
Krasna touched the board. A
small dot of light appeared in the
center of the screen and went out
again. At the same time, there
was a small beep of sound. Then
the tape began to unroll and a
picture clarified on the screen.
How
it got that
a story that started several
is infallible.
way is
pened
."
II
"TvANA
Weinbaum eyed
ly.
12
vice
Krasna
said
her quizzical-
had nothing
fair
To the eye of
Dana Lje seemed
it.
virgin
delicate
of
the beholder,
a particularly
Bali,
despite
found
column,
it
no
less
and Weinbaum
charming at first
hand.
as to
me
now.
I'll
bite
back?"
"I
think
was
just pretty
plain
don't
badly
slipped
in
the
had
Erskine
It
in it."
"Cold
Weinbaum
comfort,"
dryly.
nevertheless."
said
"But
thank
you,
"That
Weinbaum
Information?"
stellar
copy with
her,
probably
seriously.
Lje:
As
a syndicated video
Miss
com-
called
these
predictions
are
If
fulfilled
tions are
WEINBAUM
firm.
days."
"That's just
when
Dana
what
thought
said.
part of
it
to you."
Her slim
her
inside
fingers
jacket
burrowed in
pocket, and
BEEP
er/
"
star-cluster
even
the
which
is
whole
or
maybe
constellation,
men
so.
But
before you
let
me
predictions."
Dana
The
letter rustled in
four'
"
Weinbaum
he
letter!"
said, his
me see that
voice harsh
Hammersmith
liner
at
II.
The
navy
of
position of
be
88-aleph-D
will'
and-per-se-and.
It
"
me in jailing you
no matter how loudly
your sponsors might scream. I
would
justify
at once,
14
"
be
the
It's
'
THOUGHT
so,"
she
said,
"Then that
liner
is
those coordinates, and the coded time coordinate corresponds with the
predicted Universal Time. Is it
to
hit
baum
is
"Or
show me that
full of
my own
bureau
is
leaks?"
"Why?"
"Because
the information in
question hasn't even reached my
own agents in the field yet it
couldn't possibly have leaked as
far as Hammersmith II or any-
Then what
are
we
left
BEEP
"What,
indeed,"
said grimly.
Weinbaum
"You'd better
tell
me
who
and
find out
who owns
it."
Dana
the
device?"
'Yes,''
"What
Dana
is
said.
it?"
again.
"Mar15
we did
to
Any
this year."
.
"Arrest him,
espionage."
on suspicion of
gentle,
"It
is,
and
lots
more
lots
anybody
in this job.
should
"Shoot."
"I've already mentioned how
slow communication is between
star and star. We have to carry
all our letters on ships, just as
16
The
over-
baum
layman.
for a long
then," he said, "is some
virtually instantaneous method of
getting a message from some-
time,
Sooner or
involved.
are
we must have
this instan-
trawave
is
faster
"Effectively
isn't.
You
than
it is;
don't
light."
physically
it
understand
that?"
cocked hat."
any notion
"But
if
I'd
of the political
The
caterpillar.
caterpillar himself
is
moving
know
But
there's
and
we've
already
reached that limit. We've taken
phase velocity as far as it will go.
"That's why we need something faster. For a long time our
relativity
theories
discouraged
hope of anything fastereven the
high phase velocity of a guided
wave didn't contradict those
theories; it just found a limited,
mathematically imaginary loophole in them. But when Thor here
began looking into the question
caterpillar,
BEEP
office,"
Weinbaum
"A good
Brindisi
said
had
dyna-
my
grimly.
is
overdrive
of other
wouldn't
to you.
mean anything
at
all
we
17
baum
said.
rather
esoteric,
"The
principle
is
and the
Thor,
gather
that
he?"
"No,"
Dana
Dana.
know
some
of
that letter."
girl
yes,
But nothing
am.
the
lists
num-
you
will
or not
it
the rest. If
it
does,
think I've
Stevens'
it
does,"
let
cell,
Weinbaum
said,
himself into
locking
the
had cleared it
volume of pleasant,
harmless lyrics by a New Dynasty poet named Nims.
"Were our predictions correct,
since his office
was only
Captain?" Stevens
said.
right
WfEINBAUM
* *
The
II
said.
His voice
like
won't
"But
protested.
work
"Our
intelligence net-
"Its results
grant,"
we would have
Let's see
letter predict
J.
ber of ships
18
was afraid
"I
so."
Weinbaum
How
else
my
correspondents report
to me with the efficiency you have
observed?"
could
receivers
of your
operatives."
"I decline to
tion,
if
We
solute guarantees
OOBIN WEINBAUM
-^-*
smiled
umnists on a
way.
operated,
we would no
longer
own
my
methods
secret,
my
firm.. If
you wish
to
BEEP
will
If
this
we
exclusively. In short,
a hired civilian
arm
you become
of
my own
bureau."
"Quite," Stevens said, returning the smile in a fatherly way.
"We anticipated that, of course.
However, we have contracts with
other governments to consider:
Erskine, in particular. If we are
to work exclusively for Earth,
necessarily our price will include
compensation for renouncing our
other accounts."
"Why should it? Patriotic public servants work for their government at a loss, if they can't
19
work
"I
for
machine working
it
am
am
my
said,
tain."
hurt.
"jDERHAPS.
senile
ciates
deliberation.
"My
asso-
sum
a
Tentatively,
however,
equal to the present appropriation of your
know damned
spend
my
entire appropriation
on
"The
service
is
20
For
less
for us.
Weinbaum
glared at the
placid face. "I'm forced to tell
you that you're a free man, Mr.
Stevens. We've been unable to
show that you came by your in-
formation by any
method.
your
possession, but no classified documents, and it's your privilege as
You had
citizen
matter
illegal
classified facts in
to
make
guesses,
no
how
educated.
"But we'll catch up with you
sooner or later. Had you been
reasonable, you might have found
yourself in a very good position
with us, your income as assured
as
hilt.
ject to
idea
FBI pays
anonymous
for
gossip.
gan to sound
cavity. "Captain, I
that
you can do
have no doubt
me, at
this to
But
least
incompletely.
prove
prediction,
at
dictions. It is this
find
you a
It
all
that modification.
Eventu-
you, on my
own terms, but you will never
find it for yourself, nor will you
force it out of me. In the meantime, not a word of copy will be
filed with you; for, despite the
fact that you are an arm of the
government, I can well afford to
wait you out."
ally, I will give it to
"Bluster,"
Weinbaum
"Fact. Yours
said.
the bluster
is
Thank you
freedom.
BEEP
We
for
giving
me my
WEINBAUM
back into
is
You
guaranteed, as are
again, nodding at
Weinbaum,
his
will
it
no charge.
un-
blasted his
his
own
way
office, at
own
probable future. If
He
glared
Soames,
his
down
at
Margaret
She
receptionist.
"Anything?" he said.
"Dr. Wald's waiting for you in
your office. There are some field
reports, and a couple of Diracs
on your private tape. Any luck
with the old codger?"
"That," he said crushingly, "is
Top
Secret."
21
"Poof.
body
J.
still
Shelby Stevens."
He
what
does
it
said.
staff
of aquavit to empty."
"Right," the receptionist said.
"Tie one on for me, Chief. I un-
am
is
I'll
suitably squiffed,"
said,
the best
feeling
little
have
after
Weinbaum
better
al-
22
ORIEFLY,
*-* him.
Weinbaum
told
of
it,"
he finished;
we'll
"is that
have to buy
Somehow
can't see
it
believe
how
at his price.
him
but
possible.
it's
If
I
I
were to
tell
baum
sighed.
what's
come
field."
moved
silently
Wainbaum's
from
see
let's
from the
Wald
Thor
away
"Well,
in
desk
sound
replaced
of
voice
chief in
Rio City.
without
there isn't
any
Information
preamble.
"And
local Interstellar
staff,
BEEP
We
list
Orders?"
Weinbaum
dictated
to
the
just
too
damned
big.
And
oh,
23
TTE
**
line. I've
dossier while
and
it's
an absolute
desert. Prior
Wald
truth
simple
tially
principle.
there's
is
is
essen-
mechanism
in
any way
message from
it
to
transmit a
which can't be
new."
"What
said.
proviso?"
Thor Wald
left
Weinbaum
him behind
then the
should
true
the
man
"Is
his
it
own
it
Jerome.'
But who
is
Weinbaum
"No,"
"Only
said.
anonymity,
but
leave
clues
strewn all around the landscape
those
clues
are
really
cry
Of course
we're working on that angle we
Shelby Stevens
case, I'm sure."
up
but
anything
neglect
can't
J.
that kind of
isn't
Weinbaum
stood
"Okay, Thor
on your technical pro-
abruptly.
what's
first
gram?"
make
let's
"Well
to start with
crystal lattice
is
accompanied by
motion somewhere
else in the
Thus
control the
Universe.
if
we
we
of
communicator somewhere
else.
his
his
positron-gun.
If
so,
the
back
to the beginning of our tests and
logical step for us
is
to go
we can
refine
if
our measurements
of positron frequencies."
The
scientist
pressibly
gloomy
don't look as
to
BEEP
things
are
different
in
to
physics
be in
statement was
classic
made by
'It is the
nature of a real thing to be inexhaustible in content.' We know
now that that's not so, except in
a remote, associational sort of
way. Nowadays, physics is a de-
fined
and
scope
is
still
prodigious, but
it
we
as end-
less.
"This
is
better established in
any other
tury had with Euclidean geometry and hence the reason why
they evolved so many recomplicated theories of relativity is
that it's a geometry of lines, and
thus can be subdivided infinitely.
When
possibility
of
really
infinite
man who
sets
at
taught
Princeton,
me theory of
many years.
25
Euclidean at all.
geometry
Pythagorean
a
tron, isn't
points,
not
lines.
It's
of
Once you've
quantity
you're
go.
26
down
you're
measuring,
as far as
you can
further refinement
"And
is
possible.
our positron-
would
which
is
certainly
something
"Hoop?" Weinbaum
"Sorry.
said.
hiccup only."
firm,"
private
Wald
skip-tracing
said firmly,
"I for
and void."
"All
baum
mean
right,
said,
to
all
right,"
grinning.
"I
was
to
Weindidn't
modate
just ask-
HHHE
-*
tire floor of
ing, its
~~"^^^^^B
l"
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^" o i*s' s
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woe..
TtrnrTii
BEEP
27
board
trol
with
screen
vision
at
large
its
tele-
center,
at
it is,"
"And
Wald
lates of particle
is
why
it
physics
we
which
took so long,
even
give it?"
thought
months
later, I've
proved
five
it."
sighed
won't struggle
to keep myself from saying 'I
told you so.' What you've had
me do here, Robin, is to reconfirm about half the basic postuat length.
charges
modern physics;
of
mightn't we have to disconnect
the banks that contain that bias
before the machine will follow
the fractional -charge instructions
himself.
projects?"
J.
we
started."
signals,
screen.
though
J.
it
was the
first
project
you
Wein-
flat,'
"Look
28
definite."
baum
"Which
around."
leaves us just where
we
started,"
office
to
his
field
staff,
even
down
did
it
alone."
"How
baum
days he's
passing on in person and not
in his office, either, because we've
got bugs planted all over that
and haven't heard a thing."
"That must limit his range of
operation enormously," Wald ob-
stressed
inflections
single,
Standard
them.
and
I.D.
normally
matches
searching
WEINBAUM
on
syllables
Margaret.
jected.
Wald
Wein-
microphone,"
"Blink
for
said interestedly.
Who
is he?"
Margaret said,
"is
your
here,
or
I.D.
squad
BEEP
miss
has
my
guess.
finally
The
pinned
sweetheart
of
video
the
said,
staring at her.
Weinbaum came
slowly out of
his first
lief.
assume
Dana's an
to us."
actress; that's
no news
by
tion
are
29
and glory
in
my
then,
it,
gritted
teeth.
mum
of fifteen years.
tion
of
voice.
Wald
said,
Robin?"
"Nothing.
up short by those
What's the date?"
"M*m
June
.
'Stevens'
damn
it!
Why?"
9th.
exact
predicted
applicausing
on
we could probably
practically
word
for word,
how
that
we'd
meet
Something
tells
me
IF Dana
"Dana," Weinbaum
30
By
statutes
date
the
"It's
again,
predictions.
the
said, "this
it
to
what you're
to you-* and
There was a
"All
right,"
brief silence.
Weinbaum
grimly. "Talk."
"All right, Captain
said
Weinbaum,
pay
calmly.
serious," she
don't know what
the Dirac comwon't be forced to
"You still
know about
baum."
said.
I
municator.
any
by threat
tell it,
other
know
You
threat.
me
drugs,
me
see,
you
going to send
give
of prison or
by
for a
it.
may
it
to
price?"
my real price
but it's
an alternative. Call it my
second choice. My first choice,
which means the price I'd settle
for, comes in two parts: (a), to
"It's
also
BEEP
felt
of
as though
of
up out
sailed
He
fact, instead,
to
his chair.
anything
know
aren't
to prison, or
or do
W/EINBAUM
ears.
"Of
all
Dana
ing a
"You
point
herself
seemed to be smil-
little.
see,"
my
best
man
knee at every
Weinbaum
sat
meet."
down
again,
"Women and
officers
first.
trying to
sell
childlike
security
me
31
be possible at
future
is
all,
fixed?"
"Now, when
this
uh,
this
My
32
exist.
One event
follows
was the
will
little
sooner,
think.
At any
"But
at
my
about
you'll check
What we
relatives, of course. If
called
consciousness, which
is
intelligent
but
said, inele-
with
considerable
'wow'
or
force.
"THITHER
"
'balder-
my
How?
that
Dana
not
is
an
actress,
Thor,
let's
last.
How
fall off
That question
did you arrive at
is:
and
there.
"To begin
BEEP
with,
you're right
myself.
happen
to
all
the
which seem
same
in
the
me
picked up
some
of
eventually,
Some
the
real
knowl-
learned
can't be gotten any other way.
Some other things are ordinarily
edge.
of the things
33
came
to
me by
his
in
chest.
He
said,
"A
leak in your
own
staff."
set to
baum
Weinwork
for
this
"Not
at
first.
and why
and the
self
first
piece of secret
municator together.
all
34
assembled,
And
communicate. It predicted.
can tell you why."
accident, in horse-
well
just
it
When
it
was
hard to accept, so
far.
Pruned
of
ments."
"It did work out that way,"
Dana said. "But that wasn't the
genesis or the purpose of the
Stevens masquerade.
I've
already given you the whole explanation of how that came
about."
"Well, you'd better name me
that leak, before the man gets
away."
"When
the price
is
paid, not
time,
But
comfortable.
on you that
press
want to imall
apparent
seem
stances
found
it,
to explain
why
effect terms,
larly,
find
"I'm
like
it
this?"
"It's
ing,"
just
Wald
flabbergast-
said soberly.
"How-
it
BEEP
an admirable job
some metaphysics
"I
see that,"
Weinbaum
said
faintly
is
what remains
of acting, plus
believe
it
to be false.
On
the other hand, if you're telling the whole truth, you certainly
deserve a place on the bureau
would be dangerous as
have you with us and
the marriage is a more or less minor matter, except to you and me.
staff
it
hell not to
would.
"So:
if
you
will tell
me where
within a month."
"Fair enough," Dana said.
"Robin, your leak is Margaret
Soames. She is an Erskine operative, and nobody's bubble-brain.
She's a highly trained technician."
be damned," Weinin
astonishment.
"Then she's already flown the
coop she was the one who first
told me we'd identified you. She
must have taken on that job in
order to hold up delivery long
"Well,
baum
I'll
said
enough to stage an
exit."
day
after
And you
tomorrow.
now
are
"Now,
if
you
will tell
and
if
it
your swami
backs up every-
Dana
smiled.
very simple.
"The
It's in
secret
is
the beep."
client."
"Explain," Thor
looking intense.
"The
36
beep?
jaw dropped.
The
Dirac
said,
ber;
finite
WEINBAUM'S
Wald
it's
dual
fractional
positron
frequencies,
positron
Dana
frequencies
existed,"
confessed. "No,.
simple
it's
layman
me
by recording the
'splattered'
BEEP
failure-points in
your
receiver, to exaggerate
minimize
one
the others,
and use noise -suppressing techniques to cut out the back-
failure,
all
ground."
ate
up the various
in slow motion.
fTIHOR
-*- still
sages
"Which
is
just
what
did;
it
tal-clear: If
the
instruments
that
are
37
and
playing
test of
vice."
talk
was becoming
38
"That's
it,"
Dana
said.
"It's
"I
have
Milky
Way
BEEP
"Most
of the voices
which you
can overhear decades or centuthey're cries for help,
ries
there in time?
Did we understand
in time?'
you
more
own
surrounding
to
make
clear.
the
present
Whether
it's
certain
five
distance.
hundred or
five
returns
sets
in
or
39
"That wasn't
Dana
in
the
cards,"
of the unit
form on our
big ultrawave receiver, and it
shouldn't take any effort to add a
high-speed tape unit to it. I'll do
it right now."
He went out. Weinbaum and
in already assembled
Dana looked
said.
In
40
said.
That
first kiss
was, by intention
But
by the time Wald padded back
into the office, the letter had been
pretty thoroughly superseded by
at least, mostly pro forma.
the
spirit.
nPHE
* set
harrumphed and
burden on the desk.
scientist
his
."
Weinbaum used
bring his
mind back
the time to
to the matter
com-
spindles
We
have
the
last
dream up
at least he hasn't
come to me with it yet, and
nothing in the situation
stands now that would indicate
a closing-time of six
months for the case. The computers said it would take three
there's
as
it
more
years."
new
"It's
data,"
agreed solemnly.
ritual,
got a
"Well,
stop
don't
name!
God's
Let's
Dr.
Wald
there,
hear
in
some
more !"
Dr.
speaker said:
"Nausentampen. Eddettompic.
Berobsilom. Aimkaksetchoc. Sanbetogmow. Datdectamset. Dom-
you
atrosmin. Out."
out."
We
in the
NGC
first
instant of stun-
ned amazement
no amount
After the
for
dle
BEEP
"My
"What's
word,"
all
Wald
said.
that?"
"Not
ladies
anyhow. That,
and gentlemen, is code no
this sample,
41
March
sense.
It's
there's
some kind
3022, and
mass evacThe message
12,
of a
said.
agine.
Thor."
im-
spin,
'
"Shall
Ill
time?"
he
later,
the
green-skinned
face
of
something that looked like an animated traffic signal with a helmet on it. Though the creature
had no mouth, the Dirac speaker
This
is
clearly, "Hello,
NGC
Thammos
my
by yours. This
is
a lousy
little
accept
us and
that's
the
NGC
"I wish
eral
baum
42
knew
Catalogue
said.
my New
better,"
"Isn't that
GenWein41 in
'"'HE
shot," he said.
"They didn't
when one
tion of the
see,
sec-
government becomes
else out.
"On
torship.
possible
of
field
be-
operation
other
other
done."
"I
said
should think
slowly.
could," Jo
it
"After
all,
you
if
your
"And
life.
there's
much more
to
it
We
know now
a man's thoughts.
that the consciousness of the observer
is
when our
physics shows
that it's impossible to do so?
That's why the Service is in no
entire
Event Police."
"But why?" Jo
history
BEEP
is fixed,
said.
why do we
"If
all
bother
happen anyhow."
"Of course they will," Krasna
agreed immediately. "But look,
Jo. Our interests as a government
depend upon the future. We op-
ings will
100%
successful.
its
if
warnings.
we
stop-
born.
Event Police
Our
is
to
obligation as
the events
make
of
them.
It's
lieve
43
The evidence
is
piling
up
at a
terrific rate."
"I think
said.
to the truth."
ness."
that.
all
this as
an Englishman of around
found out about the
American Revolution, he would
have thought it a tragedy; an
Englishman of 1950 would have
a very different view of it. We're
in the same spot. The messages
we get from the really far future
have no contexts yet."
it.
If
1600 had
44
it
in time,
said. "I'll
I
took
JOtake
Jo
suppose,
use the Dirac for a while.
Or does my new rank authorize
me to do that?"
"Yes, it does. But, Jo, first I
want to pass on to you a rule of
Service etiquette that must never
be broken. You won't be allowed
anywhere near a Dirac mike until
after
see,"
get used to
your
into
forgetful-
of
a-
Serviceman's
death
in a
feeling
little
chilly.
the
rule
ed,
He
plain.
I'll
myself.
What's
"I
said,
won't forget
Many
my new
"To begin
thanks,
Kras.
assignment?"
ever
in a
new raw
recruit!"
JAMES BLISH
It
was
all just
mistake but
try
frightful
convincing
it
was!
U| WON'T
bar.
is
girls treat
them!
tell
you,
custo-
Herbert de-
"dull"
sensible
and have a
green.
neat
is
lads.
little
it?"
No trouble, no fuss,
no bellyaching." He looked mean-
ward our
ingly at Herbert.
vite.
"What have they got to bellyache about?" asked Herbert angrily. "They come and land here.
that's that.
Nobody
our
boys have
landed.
way
where
People
Illustrated
THE
They come in
drink or two, and
it?"
some
it's
know
that
regular
manded.
"
the
your
"Unlike
is
isn't
lads."
mers,
treat
guests."
Anyway,
matter.
This
they look
isn't
down
in-
primitive
big town.
Now
their noses at us
local
doesn't interest
at
it's
by KOSSIN
45
TTERBERT
warmed
to
his
-** theme.
like
and
set
up shop next
door, selling
real
some
liquor,
"Sure, sure.
you do
it."
money on
myself."
half-hearted protest.
in
good
and make no
trouble,
we
What
object?
benefits the
why
should
benefits one
community."
Chamber
What
of
benefits
benefits
Commerce
me
less
than
town."
visitors,
girls.
"Thanks,
"Now
for trade
now.
of the others
But
I'd
much
he said
friends
Most
fect
me
the
we
in
of the specimens
plaints."
it if
after
have had?"
you one."
My
daughter
Doris took one of the lads home
to tea and he brought them along
I
for
meas
ture.
Kind of a souvenir."
traitor!"
Gillespie smirked.
"You
don't
good
will."
women
off
us.
If
what
for
my
liking.
It's
sus-
picious."
"X^OU
-*
wait,
my
friend,"
said
laughed
hollowly.
which some peodistorted imaginations will
Gillespie
"The extent
ple's
take
THE
the start."
"Well, what's so funny about
that? Other creatures have come
here with a working knowledge
of the language."
up one morning
like
them
to
up on
their travels.
it's
Anyway,
anything to
me
that."
"There's
anybody
is
no
to say
there?"
compulsion
on
what he can
do,
Gillespie
countered.
it
got
47
ship
ling
when
Vespis."
Gillespie laughed uproariously.
"Decadence!" said Herbert bitterly.
is
find
you'll
it
prophets."
"Herbert,"
be-
my
that
to a
under
it
them
to
his breath.
they
He had
to
hand
were certainly
side
finding
of
moment, a Vespian,
48
girl
really
smooth.
seriousness."
**
As
in
up,
of
accent.
for
you
unknown
catastrophe,
laughing at the
said
cate trace of
of
Gillespie
who
on the verge
Then, he'd thought her rather alsurly. Now, she was laugh r
ing at the Vespian and sparkling
with pleasure. Herbert winced.
Gillespie hastily slapped Her-
most
radioactivity
and
bacteria.
THE
49
idyllic to
latest bit of
enterprise. If things
courteously.
ily,
something."
vided. Laughter
soft voices
SO
like
be
registers.
fXiHE
there'd
long.
or
went on
a small town
clustered around the ship before
this,
Or
set-
ship.
Herbert in another
ting
The Vespians conducted themselves with the utmost decorum. They seemed not
exceptionable.
in the least.
girls
began
whitely
and dangerously
lolling ele-
foot of the
ramp
but
function, Herbert
like a guard,
man,"
shall
cial
matter."
lit
THE
breed.
The Vespian
rose courteously
desk and stretched out
his hand. "Good evening, Mr.
Plumtree. Is there anything I can
do for you?"
I
"I
" Herbert floundered.
"Yes, there is. Correct as your
from
his
men
a deputation of one,
I,
as
would be
handsome
backs."
Mr.
If
any
of
my men
."
.
it,"
nothing personal in
said Herbert.
"He may
Who
"There's
gruffly.
be
more handsome,
sible,
TTE
*--*
chief
of that."
He appeared
to be in such a
Herbwere re-
worst
suspicions
awakened.
can't pretend
handsome
swains. Well,
if
he had
authorities about
it."
tated.
fellows,
site.
meant no harm."
"Well, you've caused plenty."
like a
drink?"
moment,
And
you
if
will."
Herbert
felt
of triumph
and
mixed sensation
fear. This was
moment to make a
dash for it. Or was it? He hadn't
found any real clue to the purpose of the Vespians yet. In his
mind's ear, he heard the roar of
rockets as the alarmed Vespians
took to their space-heels, bearing
him off a captive. Or were they
preparing a worse fate for him?
After all, the only ones who had
seen him enter the ship were the
women outside, and he somehow
felt that they would not be willthe classical
52
Steady,
himself,
steady,
Herbert told
re-
plying.
"My
tressed
and pained."
I^HE Vespian
smiled a smile
aching sincerity.
They're
playing
for
time,
thought Herbert. Probably stokr
* of
ing
up the
rockets.
"Come
"Wewell
The Vespian
then said, "I've com-
hesitated,
."
is
We
problem as
awkward
"What!"
"No,
we are
to you
Plum-
could
prove it
let down the
guard, as it were. But we have
found, from distressing experithat
not.
ours
is
one
which universally
we
are actually
the kindest of
creatures.
"It wasn't
feelings
it was extremely
us to carry on our
peaceful researches on worlds
where our presence was so strongly resented. So we learned to
adapt ourselves to the ideal types
of the people we meet."
"You can do that?" asked
Herbert, astonished.
"It was not easy at first, but
we have grown
quite proficient at
it."
Herbert
said flatly.
"Mr. Plumtree," said the Vespian, "I told you I could proveit to you. I could give you a
flicker.
like it."
"Go
at all."
tree,
More important,
difficult for
were
so
much
that our
against me.
it
You asked
Ready?"
for
it.
"Ready."
The Vespian flickered for a
moment.
"All right, all right," gasped
Herbert weakly. "I believe you."
we
evidently
well.
did
ourselves
are
we
we
53
"We do
conduct
We
course.
research,
don't spend
all
of
our
HERBERT
was surprised to
them.
He
brightened.
"Why
don't
just
little
repulsive."
us pet
"Well,
I've
got a request to
But
a traitor.
after
all,
he told
54
it
He
pians.
tell
nobody
about this?"
Herbert grinned.
"Do you
think for one moment I would?"
The Vespian grinned, too. "No,
I think not. Yes, it can be done.
If you'll just hold on a moment."
"Oh, just one thing," said
else
Herbert.
"Yes?"
"Don't let down your standards
of craftmanship."
"We won't," promised the Vespian.
And when
he returned with
When
speak,
shall
could
what
call
"Call
The
Herbert finally
he said, "What
you?"
me what you
voice,
accompanied
wish."
besides sending a
down Herbert's
shiver of delight
spine,
me
Rita."
ARTHUR
SELLINGS
THEY
Falakian
girl
touched Farrell's
Pet
Farm
By ROGER DEE
Illustrated
by
DICK FRANCIS
stumbled over the almost forgotten Terran word, but its sound
was music.
"No matter," Farrell answered.
"They're too late now."
He pushed on, happily certain
in his warm euphoric glow of
mounting expectancy that what
he had done to the ship made him
and his new-found paradise
with him secure.
He had almost forgotten who
they were; the pale half-memories that drifted through his
mind touched his consciousness
lightly
and without urgency,
arousing neither alarm nor inter-
est.
To
the
right
throwing
cliff
and
to
left,
maze
aerial
vague
cliff
other arms of
reached
traceries
out,
from
PET
FARM
55
about their little blue
like gay shadows
through the tamarisks and calling
to each other in clear elfin voices
while they frolicked after the
fluttering swarms
hued moths.
ming
playing
lake,
flitting
of great, bright -
gently.
anticipant children
"If you knew what you're waiting for," a third voice said, "you'd
go screaming mad." It was familiar, recalling vaguely a fat, goodnatured face and ponderous,
wide-winged moths
swam into sight and floated toward them, eyes glowing like veil-
Mo-
them
laughed
like
when two
ed emeralds.
Footsteps followed, disembodied in the dusk.
"It is only Xavier," a voice said.
Its
memory
disturbing implications of
the words forced him reluctantly
to remember a little of that first
sight of Falak.
.
a
yet
soiling
But
briefly
disturbing
slight
gray
"He
is
figure,
unharmed,"
of
jointed
it
said. "Di-
rections?"
Xavier?
Directions?
From
whom?
Another voice answered from
the shoulder-box, bringing a second mental picture of a face
square and brown, black-browed
and taciturnly humorless that
he had known and forgotten.
56
The
sacrilege,
ec-
had been
different.
team was
to find later.
tering of
and unpromising
workaday blueprint
differed from previous ex-
pleted a familiar
pattern,
that
had...been
slime-bogs,
worse.
sional
infinitely
any
here,
ticklish undertaking.
^ good-natured
not,
the pit
Their
lay
first
real
hint of
what
Xavier,
the
ship's
mechanical,
PET
FARM
puzzles,
malice.
"Why
the
accordion and sketch for entertainment, and Gib has his starmaps and his chess sessions with
Xavier. But for a fat old man,
rejuvenated four times and nearing his fifth
place.
little
is left
He
and
final,
what
else
except curiosity?"
clipped a heat-gun and au-
dicom pack
to
the
belt
of
his
the hot
sun to
eclipsed
magenta point
a
liverish
by the
of Falak's
glare
half-
crater's southern
here"
"Then we'd be the first to
solve the problem of alien psy-
"We'll never feel safe again unthe Bees are wiped out. I wonder if they know that. They never
til
rule or die."
their
He
of
two hundred
leaving Farrell to
"This
is
a non-rotating world,"
"How the devil can
Farrell said.
dark
the fog
To
59
ly outside into a
more
tion
rate
die like
flies."
HPHE
*-
on the mudflat
at their feet
filthy, plast-
unmoved,
adaptable, Lee.
kind survives
shouldn't."
Sometimes our
when
it
really
came out
in his eyes,
many
them
there.
compulsions the
Hymenops
to
condition
their
child
at
Men
when
its
like
slaves.
go to any lengths to
will
observe
into
tradition,
origin
is
especially
forgotten.
If
able"
him frowning
distance.
the
first
lation
until
in
young," he said.
more than
twenty twenty-five at most!"
Stryker scowled, puzzled with"They're
"The
all
oldest can't be
sharing
Farrell's
unease.
out
"You're right. Where are the
older ones?"
mistakable.
little
they
kill
each other
off at
ma-
inference
STRYKER
for
looked to Gibson
support,
received
none,
ber.
to hunt."
problem
Stryker
had posed.
Chipped and weathered as the
bones littering the mudflats were,
their grisly shapings were un-
PET
FARM
can support only a limited numSome of the old North American Indians followed a similar
custom, the oldest son throttling
the father when he grew too old
61
It's
too difficult
Four,
Subsection
One, Paragraph Nineteen: Any
custom, fixation or compulsion
accepted as the norm by one
group of human beings can be
understood and evaluated by any
other group not influenced by the
same ideology,
"Oh,
ly.
"Let's get
shall
back to the
we? We'll
all
feel
more
Damn
it
all!"
62
injured foot.
ship,
like
His right foot gave way beneath
him without warning,
crushing through the soft ground
and throwing him heavily. He
sat up at once, and swore in incredulous anger when he found
"Sprained!
rell
"It's
the
first
passably hand-
this
maimed
will
it.
Finish
it
off,
I've
you?"
Stryker grunted, feeling the
texture of the imprisoning sheath
with curious fingers. "What would
it
"Lepidoptera, anyway."
He stood up and ended the
chrysalid's strugglings with a bolt
from his heat-gun before extending a hand to help Farrell up.
"I'd
like
to
examine
it
closer,
by
-- slow stages, pausing now and
then while Gibson gathered a
small packet of bone fragments
from the mudflats and underto the ship
custom dreamed up by the Hymenops to keep their slaves under control? A sort of festival of
every decade, climaxing
sacrifice
in tribal decimation?"
brush.
"Some
others," he explained
when Stryk-
remarked on his
"But none are recent.
er
help to
know
selection.
should
It
piety."
He
pain,
An hour later,
results
of
that
il-
silt,
thirty.
intervals,
"And
then,"
at tenSljryker
in considerable
num-
PET
same
cycle,
I'd
say
?OR
luminating.
when Gibson's
analysis
had
The
godli-
FARM
can
it
of investigation.
when darkness
is
He was reduced finally to limping about the ship on his bandaged foot, searching for some
HPHEY
We made
"We mapped
64
outside?"
routine task left undone and finding nothing. He even went so far
as to make a below-decks check
on the ship's matter-synthesizer,
an indispensable unit designed for
the conversion of waste to any
yesterday,"
he said.
it.
than
falls,"
more
and
"No
restless
four
Hymenop
interrupted
derisively.
madhouses
ecological
ter
and the
part of a century,
menop
ing
elements
disparate
the
to
and
tions,
curiosity.
We
might
em-
stimuli
species
we do to those same
what if that other
but
only
recognizes
their motivations
one or
at all?
What
stem from a
He
chuckled,
preciate a
PET
altar
Mozart quintet or a
FARM
or
piece
per-
its
comprehension.
"There's a digger wasp on
Earth whose female singles out
a particular species of tarantula
similarity."
and
Botticelli
flicker
of
protest.
And
if
we
mechanics of
such a relationship between reflexive species, then what chance
have we of understanding the
logic of an intelligent race of
can't understand the
aliens?
The
results of
its
activi-
ties."
"All
right,"
Farrell conceded.
-*
FTER
another
eight-hour
He
set-
but
opening
To
outside,
"What
want here?"
A shadow fell across the valley.
Farrell, startled, looked up sharp-
to
his
its
seemed
sympathy to
own restlessness and banishFarrell, the valley
stir,
waking
in
66
was music,
rousing in Farrell a warm and
expectant euphoria that glowed
Her
hesitant voice
like old
wine
in his veins.
To the girl,
followed him with puzzled,
eager eyes, he begged, "Don't run
away, please. I'll be back."
In the ship, Stryker's moonface peered wryly at him from the
Farrell hesitated.
iiy.
who
"You were
said.
all,
mystery."
"Mystery?"
Farrell
echoed
problem
so
laughed.
"We
that he
were wrong about
wonderful here."
ridiculous
"Of course."
The
their
eclosion
were
coming
bringing
time
completed,
into their
perfection with
own
them.
Born
in
gorgeous
iridescent
imago, they were beautiful in a
way that hurt with the yearning
pain of perfection, the sorrow
that imperfection existed at all
the joy of finally experiencing
flawlessness.
OTRYKER'S
^ went long
"Nothing
is
wrong,"
Farrell
Memory
prod-
sands.
their play
swer."
realization of
FARM
with astonishment.
PET
it
Arthur
the fourth dome was empty.
Gib and I are coming in now. We
right after
of
brought an appalling
if
The
alternative
and with
came
resolution.
it
to him
"But you
settings
required.
Stryker's
command
plunging
later.
went outside.
The
brought
it
there.
T>UT
human
"Now" he
of all
longing.
whispered.
girl
ship
68
and
the
men
who
had
influence
whiplike
ribs.
shaking
the valley,
across
"The
remembering.
He had
briefly
troubled
metal shell
lancing up toward a black void
of space powdered with cold starpoints whose names he had forgotten, marooning them all in
of the
vision
sleek
Paradise.
son's voice,
still
Xav?"
safe,
the
"Safe,"
swered
tersely.
mechanical
"The
an-
natives, too,
so far."
"No thanks
said. "If
to him," Gibson
you hadn't canceled the
blastoff
order
autopilot
."
he
But
fed
after a
into
the
moment
beat
down
few minutes
took us to reach
the ship, and nearly got me as
well. Arthur was exposed to their
PET
SILENT
FARM
it
**
searing
explosion of light,
and
unendurable,
"So
thought
69
while
it
watches
its
grave
being dug?"
A second flare bloomed far up
in the fog, outlining the crisscross network of bridging in stark,
spoke again.
"Give us a guide beam, Xav.
We're bringing the Marco down."
The ship settled a dozen yards
away, its port open. Farrell,
with Xavier at his heels, went
inside hastily, not looking back.
"But
it's
for larvae
Reorientation will
them out
pull
of that pesthole in
a couple of months,
decade
them
will see
and another
raising cat-
He
secticide
said.
grew
silent
below.
"Exit
experiment
ogy."
the crater.
"There'll be some nasty coughing among the natives for a few
days
70
after
this,"
Gibson
said.
"I
might
find, or breed, a
nocturnal
over
human
beings," Farrell
"And how
they'd balance
the relationship to a time-cycle
that kept the host species alive,
yet never- let it reach maturity.
said.
But what
one,
arrangement in the
place?"
Gibson shrugged. "We'll understand the principle when or if
we learn how the wasp holds its
spider helpless. Until then, we
can only guess. As for identifying the motive that prompted the
Hymenops to set up such a balance, I doubt that we ever will.
Could a termite understand why
men build theaters?"
"There's a possible parallel in
that," Stryker suggested. "Maybe this was the Hymenop idea of
entertainment. They might have
built the bridge as balconies,
where they could see the show."
"It could have been a business
venture,"
Farrell
suggested.
"Maybe they raised the moth
larvae or pupae for the same reason we raise poultry. A sort of
insectile chicken ranch."
"Or a kennel," Gibson said dryly. "Maybe they bred moths for
pets, as we breed dogs."
get out of the
first
the gal-
with
three steaming coffee-bulbs. Farrell, still pondering the problem
of balance between dominant and
dominated species, found himself
wondering for the thousandth
time what went on in the alert
positronic brain behind the me-
PET
ley,
carrying
FARM
tray
ance?"
"Evaluation
vations,
alien
of
conversely,"
the
moti-
me-
chanical
common ground
of
comprehen-
sion."
It centered the tray neatly on
the charting table and stood back
in polite but unmenial deference
while they sucked at their coffee-
bulbs.
restlessness that
drives
men
from
answered
it.
ROGER DEE
71
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Information
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ByW.lLYLEY
HINTS TO FUTURE
ARCHEOLOGISTS
1AST
fence,
72
mi
feet in size
and a foot or so
in
Underneath, in the
clay ground, a kind of basement
has been dug with steel posts that
thickness.
served or whether
it
at
form
Camp's
favorite
short
lecture
"How
reconsidered.
You
don't
some
beautiful
brain-twisters,
puzzles they'll never be able to
solve unless still-preserved records help them.
TT'OR
*
six
later.
all.
my
or
example,
archeologists
one
measurement
for
tory,
and
testing.
In
size,
35.6
mote
control.
than 500
lbs. of a crumbling
substance. The stuff
does not explode. It does not even
less
powdery
ignite
separates,
much
of
it
sinking to
73
minus 15 years.
But what are those things?
The cannon balls used in the 19th
Century, the archeologists know,
whom he
submitted his plan did not think
much of the idea, but Mr. Mallet
of charcoal, sulfur
and
in thickness.
Well,
the
big
balls
actually
projectiles.
the
were
filled
with 480
lbs. of
sand
men were
not
cast,
number
but
barrels were
consisted
of
somehow
got
the
ear of Lord
saltpeter,
were
elty
testing the
TJEQUESTS
--out
he read.
The bid
been
4000
pounds
sterling
had
for
provided
each,
it
weighed not
guncotton
blast
to
the
apart
The forty-odd
projectiles cast
by another firm
cost 16
pounds
would cost 22
Two
cranes cost
sterling each. And
40
tons
apiece.
loading
'pounds
150
the
was
to cost 450
pounds
sterling.
it
more
tests
in the first
jectile
in
flight
FOR YOUR
INFORMATION
piece.)
pounds
sterling
them
in the ground.
if they happen
out
that the area was once
an artillery proving ground. But
one day they may come across
puzzle
to
it
know
FTER
scraping
the
off
which
all
has
relic inside
archeologists
will
that
it
big,
about
five feet in
the
as-
and
find
also
diameter
75
on the
inside.
The material
is
of centigrade or Fahrenheit.
thickness that is
small compared to
is
ridiculously
That
its size.
wrapped
it
in heat-insulating
was
ma-
terials.
esting
and
physicist
Claude
Georg
inventor
to be precise, with
But
this early
work
of
his
The steam in
The outside air,
by comparison, is "cold." But it
matters little what the two temp-
temperature
a boiler
76
is
levels.
"hot."
important
What
that there is a
difference. Nor is it necessary
that this difference be as great as
it usually is in a steam engine.
Take the Warm Spring of
Grenelle, for example, he continuis
have a temperature
Fahrenheit (I am converting; actually he used centigrade, of course) and the water of
a river nearby has usually a
temperature of 60 Fahrenheit,
ed. Its waters
of
86
if
ice.
the condenser
idea.
They most
likely
k T
**
somewhat
however,
later
date,
engineers
tried their slide rules on the
problem of the extraction of energy from small temperature
level
several
The
differences.
first
after
two
Italians
None
a position to
German
Dr.
them was in
build expensive maof
and successful
other fields, was in a
pioneer in
more favored situation.
provided the
To
atmospheric
lowered.
test his contention, Claude
pressure
is
two
narrow-necked
glass jugs. Jug No. 1 was filled
to about one-quarter of its capacity with water at a temperature
of 82 Fahrenheit, the temperaused
large
sea.
The bottom
of
when
By
Heartened by
this success,
Paul
KW
Fahrenheit.
77
^TiHE
*- with
east of
One
take
to
warm
in
water.
One
water.
surface
The
last
problem.'
It
pipe
had
feet in diameter,
although a one-
temperature
difference
which
could and should have been 50
Fahrenheit was a mere 24 F.
The equipment still ran, but it
78
produced only a
little over 40
per cent of the rated output.
Claude had
to
And
that
is
how
a large and
it
to
work
ANY QUESTIONS?
A
car
is
at about 30
been
sitting
GALAXY SCIENCE
FICTI
Which
scientific rule or
law cov-
John Lanctot
159 Park St.
Burlington, Vt.
down
happens
"ground speed"
Could
is
wherever
glaciers
form, the inland lakes would
increase in depth and size, the
underground water tahle would
he raised, and so forth.
The overall result of a gradual melting of the polar caps
would likely he an increase of
the depth of the oceans of only
a few feet, which would he felt
in a very few places.
glaciers
33 mph.
cause
the ocean to rise enough to endanger coastal areas?
Tom Treadwell
melting,) polar ice
2257V.
Uth
Springfield,
Oregon
which
are
with red
violet.
me
the only
exist in Nature.
But
it
to believe
colors
Are there
79
or
to the
naked eye?
John Siegel
21-10, 202nd
their
eyes logi-
the
how
the
Moon
80
And
too far
away?
L. Coleman
please explain
gravitational pull of
Toronto
St.
cally
Would you
'
is it
James
any
or
The
9,
Ont.,
Canada
Moon
first
is best understood if we
imagine a line drawn from
ward
side.
Because
the
Earth
turns
GALAXY
Sun
the
is
much
than that of
measurable.
the solar bulges coincide
(at
the lunar bulges
less
Moon, hut
When
with
it is
at full
Moon),
the tides are higher than normal. When a lunar bulge hits
a solar "low," the tides are less
than normal.
Why
hit the
is
it
that no meteorites
The Earth
is
Victoria, B.C.
being
hit stead-
fine
body happens
about
to
these Mistakes
ENGLISH?
in
asm
say
and
I" instead of "between
you and me." It is astonishing how often "who"
used for "whom," and
how frequently the
is
John Guild
Oak Bay,
Do You Make
be worrying
words
colorless, flat,
ordinary.
Every time
3HERW1N CODY
they talk or write they
show themselves lacking the essential points
of English.
Wonderful
New
Invention
call.
IN ENG-
No
Day,"
Name
agent will
call.
Address
it.
WILLY LEY
FOR YOUR INFORMATION
//
81
H.
CHANDLER ELLIOTT
Inanimate
Objection
Attacking someone's systematized delusions
82
is
DR.
CARL WAHL
skimmed over
(intern)
the high-
Attitude: Quiet, cooperative. Personal habits meticulous. Permitted unlimited access to books and electronic
materials. Coherent outside limits of
his mania.
AFFECT:
situation.
G.
Wm.
Svindorff,
in attendance.
Dr.
Matthew Loftus
En-
INANIMATE OBJECTION
EMOTIONAL REACTION,
Calm, amused at
his
own
NATURE OF ABERRA-
and
to
were you. If
it's
"Well,
hell!"
Dr.
said
Carl
way
of expressing
He
facts.
liable to
commonplace
Why
put a mild
we
accommodate
can't
when
urgent
cases?"
Dr.
Matthew Loftus
grimaced:
"Since
(resident)
you
ask, I'll
agree it stinks. Of course, those
excerpts don't give you any real
idea. He's as psychotic as a jay-
no doubt at
He
conducts
himself entirely according to this
fixation. And he's got it all worked out in theory, too; damnedest
bird,
stuff
all.
as
get
away from
his spell
a chance to think.
But
84
versationalist.
deal."
rTiHAT
lite
The chintzy
agree
"And
He
and have
grinned.
dolls."
personifies
who
He was
a lean, brown
man;
face
and mild
voice, kept in
bush a mind as
electric scalpel;
as an
raw-boned
"to
chanical failure
some Thing
malicious and aggressive."
.
incisive
Carl,
am-
gan,
re-
but he harbored a
was often
invaluable in establishing rapport
INANIMATE OBJECTION
CARL
built
85
ties.
ties
seriousness,
touchiness,
the
knock-down argument.
And, an inner mentor reminded,
air
of
tail
genius:
"great
are
wits
oft
to
."
madness near allied
"Of course," the Major con.
tinued,
recitation of a creed.
And
aren't
you knew all the physical facyou could explain everything.' Safe enough, since you
never will know them. But your
axioms work to a high approxi'If
tors,
in the name of a
spurious unity."
So he did consider alternatives,
Carl thought. Aloud, he asked,
"What evidence exists for any
other explanations?"
everything,
"Ha!
'mania.'
bility,
That's
By
you
exactly
my
what
all
86
you
and explain
away
ahead."
"Also,
I've
already admitted
tion."
observer
know
force
is
applied?'
"
In addition to a
merciless load of work at an institute half destaffed by flu, he
five.
Anyway,
you are. If
you have
back on intuition, and
light.
you
tried
there
to fall
that isn't science."
"Well,
amends
Carl
then,"
made
science, "there
bothering with
isn't
it,
is
much
point
there?"
amusement.
gic
reaction
applied.
to
the
antibiotics
lively sense of
humor.
visit.
ward,
after-
"isn't
by Christmas.
cheat
that little:
knowing you, it'll make
for
in
fact,
you con-
you weaken."
Carl laughed and took him up.
Which meant that he had to take
I
collected instances:
The
dropped on
its
the
hot-air
into
that a honey
of a mania? His science is topdrawer stuff, too. Tell you what:
I'll lay you a dollar even that
you'll be taking him 'whole fun
and half earnest,' as he puts it,
fess
So he
if
ANIMATE OBJECTION
He had
to
convince
himself
that the laws of chance adequately covered each incident; but also
ing implications.
Major.
resists
the
ate."
rilla
give
power?"
"Oh ... I sup-
Carl reflected:
pose it's the nature of life to extend itself by organization of the
environment
tools
and so on."
mass of
izing activities
would be equiva-
88
trend.
actively hostile?"
/^ARL
jubilantly
when
his
dorff.
He changed
or perhaps
fell
back on
his
own
second line?
it
work?" he
we know
the laws
mechanical systems
materials
ile
made
don't
of doc-
have much
we
can't ex-
trapolate
all
it
back-handed;
his cuff
cases."
"Docile materials?"
"Metals, for example. Passive,
like plant life. And we cast them
in geometric forms. And even
then they trick us. We get endless
amusement out of games played
with the simplest geometric form
of all, the sphere, from billiards
to baseball.
What do we know
of
"Hm!
ma-
terials?"
"Exorganic.
are
have personality
more
What
populations
INANIMATE OBJECTION
touched
wrist.
well-integrated
delusion.
By
Clare
He hoped
she
it
was
would amuse
mighty
often
fTiHE
following evening
night
off.
He
was
entered
his
the
shopping
bags
of
staples
and
Surprise, as
much
as the jerk,
90
He
lurched against
fly.
a sofa-leg.
"Gracious!" Clare said, between
mirth and peevishness. "Must
you be clumsy?"
Through Carl's mind, before
he
realized
it,
flashed,
between
gave the
make
Well,
trouble
me and
soft
Clare! And he
answer that turneth
away wrath.
After supper, he tried to turn
by using
to introduce the Major's fan-
tasy.
crazy!"
.
They spent
INANIMATE OBJECTION
91
way you
arm
hung
over
if
one
an
edge; the
drawerful of articles that restacked themselves to wedge it shut;
the ball of paper that avoided the
gaping waste-basket and dove
easily into the
hind; the balcony door that normally refused to latch and banged
in every breeze, but that had
swung shut and smartly locked
her out and so on.
;
It
did
amuse
ed
if
fe-
still
unprofessional
Next day, however, Matt eased
the latter burden considerably by
saying, "Dr. Svindorff is working
We
at
my
in-
prove that
Ruth Elvira wants to enjoy his
worldly goods in his absence; but
there's no more reason to keep
him here than a million other
harmless cranks. Let him exercise his persuasive powers on the
public along with Flat-Earthers,
telekineticists, and prophets of
stigation.
can't
I'll
be sorry
him a diver
CARL
of hairpin bends,
of
and the
hills full
Huks'\
lent
manded, "You
so
much
guerilla
manded
92
What
action.
down
Hudson, past
of apartment
blocks, and wonder what would
happen if a few power lines and
water mains were cut, with no
repair in sight? Lord! Those millions would be strangled, thrown
back on techniques they'd utterly
drive
the
those endless
cliffs
had learned to
defend
themselves."
"Yes," Carl said slowly, "that
would be an opportunity."
The Major sat down and clasped his hands over a knee.
"Look, Doctor, this may sound
that
fantastic,
but I'm
according to you.
mad anyway
It's
calculated
must be millions of
habitable planets, of which many
have had ample time to develop
space travel. Yet we've never had
that there
a certified visitor.
"I've heard
it
Why?"
discussed. We're
locks
all life
at a certain stage
counter-life.
you might
of life
INANIMATE OBJECTION
done."
"Well, wouldn't thinkers on
other worlds have seen the danger,
if it's
real?"
suspicion
that
after
all
there
He said as
the cafeteria.
"So
much
my
I lose
bet,
to
Matt
do I?" Matt
you
were
siren song.
ly?"
93
"Out of
idle
amusement.
He
fWlHAT
case.
It's
knew
danger was in relapse. He mortgaged his free time for the month
ahead, and got the evening off.
He arrived at the apartment to
find Clare in bed with their electric blanket huddled around her,
not even trying to read. She greeted him with an anxiety that
showed she too knew about relapses: "Do you think I'm going
to be very sick?"
"Not if we keep you warm and
quiet."
He
fixed
the
best light
fed her by
94
have
ing fine."
on
you."
He
room
mined
for either
germs or Gremlins by
...
He woke
reach.
of the
apartment in December.
Clare stirred, and he
"You all
She mumbled
softly,
called
right?"
feverishly, "No.
I'm coooold."
TTIS hand
*-*-
hunched
Clare's
shoulder.
"I'll
Where's the
flash?"
"On
it,"
my way
he said.
can find
wasting
thought, blundering around look-
ANIMATE OBJECTION
neatly
He
dead of night,
in the
it,
door
sudden giddy
With
95
solid
came
As
it
there.
Oh, well
could
wait
morning, safely
He edged
till
of
know
glass
was going
exactly where I
my foot?"
to put
TTE
*--
the
got
blanket
that he was soaking the good carpet with gore. Nothing mattered
except beating off this peril to
Clare, whose teeth were now chattering in the darkness. Now
hot water bottles
Eureka! The gas stove would
heat the place, and give a little
light too
why hadn't he
thought of that at first? Why, for
that matter, hadn't he thought of
using the blankets off his couchbed? They surely did exploit
.
your stupidity
The hot water bottles were in
the kitchen. He began to explore
his way through the living room.
The darkness was clammy.
Windows were dim presences,
is
carried
contact,
t>f
Group
of pain, carried
fibers.
Pain
is
by
fast,
followed by one
fibers,
by slow, Group C
two types: first
of
ized
."
But a deeper
cut in with,
96
level of his
"How
did that
mind
hunk
right
around
radiator,
ed
he knew
of death.
What would
that Presence be
once organized and
gained the upper hand?
like
It
if
where
the
it
match
holder.
With grim
de-
flare
The
was no
angled
it till it
blinding
friendly light.
He
it
little
flame,
into a
far corner.
after
On
you
"Failed,
exulting
little
bas-
burner
and
lit,
made
glare
others
water.
and
its eldritch,
blue,
it
get
on a
kettleful of
He
fire
The
escape.
window
No wonder
falling like
ferno;
the
trees
too petulantly.
ble-corner
He found himself
aloud:
tard!"
the match-head
died impotently.
NANIMATE OBJECTION
QUEER
swamped him
He
gripped
97
He
giddy
Then he saw
on the
floor. It
He hung
good case!
wrong
be-
even
on the
he's
if
flung
till
around,
Matt
ment.
Matt.
eration
He
it
he's
Carl
duties
the
temporarily.
final verdict
theory
Major's
electrical gadgets,
bulks of furniture, all glinted in
the blue light, demons and imps
drawn
Soon
little
glassware,
gan to
Whatevei the
on a smear of
blood and swung the spout where
his wfist might have been. But
that was a waning threat, he realized
a mere parting shot by a
repulsed enemy.
The knives,
last night,
mine
of situations like
"This
"We
is
Major, and
liberty
inanimate.
Want
said
son!"
it,
lose the
to
life,
of the
Committee?"
The Major listened
announcement with
to Matt's
his
usual
fication.
medico
At that juncture,
went on
.
the
lights
this
1VTEXT
'
morning,
the
paper
said
ended
lamely:
rather
figured
surprise.
it
along,
told
sir.
you
But
as a sort of Christmas
Anyway, we
your signature
just need
."
I'd
be
menand
They'd even risk unmasking
Themselves knowing most people would simply gawk at the
evitable attacks
ace
greatest
trol."
on?"
Carl
friend.
glanced
sharply
at
his
tient!
"Why, Doctor," said the Mahave the best possible audience right here, funny as it
sounds. You of the staff are the
people best equipped to appre-
jor. "I
ciate
not
by the enemy."
Earth,
INANIMATE OBJECTION
TTIS
-*--*
of his
mustache
H.
CHANDLER ELLIOTT
99
HUSH
PROJECT
By WILLIAM TENN
The biggest job
and
it
had
to
in history
be done with
complete secrecy.
which was
It
was
GUESS
Army
lord
perfectionist,
designation.
Project Hush.
I don't know who thought it
up, and I certainly would never
Illustrated
TOO
ask,
secret,
you don'r
nation
like
give
that!
it
You
a desiggive it
some name
Manhattan and Overthey used in World War II,
something neutral,
like
the
which
won't
excite
anybody's
curiosity.
by DICK FRANCIS
to take extra
measures to ensure secrecy. A
couple of times a week, everyone
on the project had to report to
Psycho for
dream
8b HA
detailing and hypnoanalysis
in-
DD
eral
attached
were
fortified
we were
could not ask what we
doing,
under
court-martial, but he
penalty
of
had to be
Some
idiot
in
Washington was
Well, we'd covered the unforgivable blunder, though not easily, and now we could get down to
the real business of the project.
You know,
PROJECT HUSH
anybody
else
knowing about
it.
knew we had
TVTE
"
raised ship.
of
Mare Nubium,
just off
swung
we had
practiced on so
runs back on Earth.
Major Monroe Gridley prepared the big rocket, with its tiny
cubicle of living space, for the
return journey to Earth which
he alone would make.
Thomas
Lieutenant - colonel
Hawthorne painstakingly examined our provisions and portable
quarters for any damage that
tasks
many dry
101
in land-
And
first
I,
commanding
officer of
Army
the
simple
pre-fab
affair,
but
big
lot
Meanwhile,
Tom Hawthorne
stroll
Basically, however,
to carry
ing.
Earth.
tains," he
little
side of
Mare NubMoun-
Riphaen
babbled excitedly.
"It's
it's
and there
it's
But
it?"
"Neither,
Colonel."
noticed
make!"
"Hey, Tom," Monroe put in.
"Couldn't be just a regularly
shaped bump in the ground,
decision to
could it?"
"I'm a geologist, Monroe. I
can distinguish artificial from
natural topography. Besides
he looked up "I just remembered something I left out. There's a
brand-new tiny crater near the
dome the kind usually left by
a rocket exhaust."
"Rocket exhaust?"
"Rockets, eh?"
seized on
T^OM
grinned a
little
sympa-
ex"Spaceship
haust, I should have said. You
can't tell from the crater what
kind of propulsive device these
characters are using. It's not the
same kind of crater our rearjets leave; if that helps any."
Of course it didn't. So we went
into our ship and had a council
of war. And I do mean war.
Both Tom and Monroe were calling me Colonel in every other
sentence. I used their first names
every chance I got.
Still,
no one but me could
j*-
thetically.
do,
we
either
last,
"here
They know
here.
They
from Earth
are
in
either
tionals
or
tures
from
humans
precipitate an
interplanetary
with potentially friendly
Martians, or whatever they are.
to
war
that.
enemy na-
tant that
informed
Army Headquarters
of
this
be
immediately.
Moon-to-Earth radio
on the drawing boards,
the only way we can get through
is to send Monroe back with the
ship. If we do, we run the risk
of having our garrison force,
Tom and me, captured while he's
But
is
since
still
trip.
In that
"Therefore,
suggest that
I sit
hand over
single-seater,
that
PROJECT HUSH
"He
cept
for
agreed-upon nonsense
dome by
tell
Tom
tured,
and warning me
foot,
to take
off. If
to
he's cap-
first
name
said.
Monroe
for
use
history
the
in
do."
promised to do
my
best, of
course.
A
-^*-
dome
over
the
sat in the
telephone
and hated
connection to Tom
myself for picking Monroe to
do the job. But I'd have hated
myself just as much for picking
Tom. And if anything happened
and
Tom
for
off,
had
in the
to tell
Tom
probably be
I'd
dome
by myself
all
that, waiting
to blast
sitting here
after
to chat with
much
choice.
"is
104
my
Tom
in the ship,
strained
my
me
that
Monroe was
in
the
Monroe
was a
yell
my name
terrific
and there
clattering
in
my
jammed
his
suit
trans-
PROJECT HUSH
105
from the
dome.
Then there was silence.
alien
"Look, Tom,"
take off now, you
said,
still
"if
dome
will
think.
come
look-
let
them
I'll
if
they're
human. Any
about them
shout it up
still
bit
is
to
human
or non-
of information
important. I'll
you and
be able to take
off in
you
won't have
you'll
plenty
fpWO
ship
trick
and
"It
not
."
feet
up on
another,
smaller box.
"How
and
He pushed his
me and sat down on a
one side of the dome. He
exactly.
box to
to
be a
past
And
him
may
of luck."
told
he might be drugged
He
way
Tom
carefully.
alerted
listen
are you,
"How's every
Ben?" he asked.
little
thing?"
grunted. "Well?"
voice skittered a bit.
I
know my
what? Oh,
tainly.
The
to"
port.
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against
leaned
the
just
the
"That's the
things," he
side
of
Army way
back
dome.
of doing
commented admiring-
ly.
stack."
aren't
FREN
ALMOST
OVERNIGHT!
there are
chuckled.
"They
SPANIS
extraterrestrials
TJERE'S
follow words in
fect
cost
TIHA
China, Argentina?"
He grimaced. "What's so secret
about those places? Go on!
guess again."
I stared at him long and hard.
"The only place else
"Sure," he said. "You got it,
Colonel. The other dome is owned and operated by the Navy.
The goddam
Navy!"
your
obligation.
warned him.
"I swear I'll kill you, Monroe.
Where are they from Russia,
you,"
FREE sample
where."
"I'll kill
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TEIVN
107
GALAXY'S
Star Shelf
FAHRENHEIT
451
by
Ray
GALAXY
ber
issue
rpHIS
the
best
thing
Ray
it
readers will
remem-
is
--
of
108
will,
GALAXY SCIENCE
FICTION.
the
still is
time be-
fore suicide.
The key
kerosene, to the
homes
all
banned
books are
new
version
is
it is.
of people
persist in possessing
books. Practically
This
is
who
not as furiously
JY
LTHOUGH
this is
a pretty
understanding.
Ideas and philosophies are set
down with poetic care, rather
chan in the fiery fashion of the
original. Each character is an unforgettable human being
perhaps the one major similarity
between the two versions.
If
of the
a sequel.
pel's
science fiction.
The other
stories
are
tops:
Arthur
Time
Mcllvaine's Star" (previously anthologized), Robert Locke's "Demotion," Pearson and Corwin's
close to reality
thor's horrible
today.
now
SHELF
C.
in
Clarke's
the
"All
the
World," Derleth's
Mark
and
Clifton's
Russell's
"Star
"The
Bright,"
Timeless
JI09
you.
whom
he
who
be-
tection.
I also thoroughly enjoyed the
description of his relations with
it
incredible
new environment.
This
ATT
and
among
ants, is a slight
but vivid and occasionally moving story of adventure, somewhat
reminiscent of a Robinson Crusoe
on a miniature scale.
More important, it is an impressive imaginative re-creation
of
living
like to
what an ant
be
like, if
civilization
was
there
might
one.
creatures
of
instinct.
He
man made
lations to his
small,
and
his re-
grasses are
110
possible
friends
for
old-fashioned science
a sense, but even so it
vividly real and often very
is
fiction, in
is
moving.
by A. H. Rey.
Mifflin
Co.,
Boston,
LTHOUGH
A
astronomy, conJA. sidered as the study of the
constellations, is one of the oldest
sciences in the world, it was not
until last year that its study by
amateurs was made even passably easy and pleasant. It was
then that Mr. Rey, German-born
but resident in the United States
since 1940, published this fine
book.
Instead
of
picturing
the
GALAXY SCIENCE
FICTIOI
supposed
but
bottom
at the
mans
to represent.
of
which we hu-
find ourselves.
BRING
THE JUBILEE
by
Ward Moore.
/~WNE
more charts
a complete calendar of when and
it
also presents in 12
And, to make the book a comguide for amateur stargazers, there is an easy, readable
plete
by
printed in
colors, this
and
and two
book should become
the
author,
large type
library
* SHELF
on.
What
richly
in
and
this
as
if
Ward Moore
realistically
first-rate
imagines
novel,
the
The
line.
story
know,
is
told
having
changed
the
by appearing at
Gettysburg from the future and
course of history
111
life
men.
Briefly,
the
novel
tells
how
WITH
every
science
fiction
quality improves.
The current
science
fiction
thority in
its
and an auand
writing, plotting
characterizations
make
that
it
it
does,
in
make something
He
of himself.
mixed
"The Grand
Army" a subversive bunch of
saboteurs and petty gangsters
who are trying to undermine the
up
which
in
imperial
and
is
is
called
escapes,
Confederacy
asked to join an
finally
who
girl
tastic
make
Other
murders
occur,
and
GROFF
GALAXY SCIENCE
CONKLIN
FICTI
THE PASSENGER
By KENNETH
HARMON
and
is
she
was
Illustrated
THE
by CONNELL
transport
swung past
last leg
"Home,"
ing home."
invisible spider
stars.
THE
Centaurus on the
fields
PASSENGER
CHE
it
breathed, "back
home
to Earth."
along
blue
seacoasts.
Back
best,
things
...
shadowed
streets
heavy and
still
her hands; water lilies and watermelons and crepe papery dances
and picnics by the river in the
summer dusk; and the library
steps in the evening, with fireflies
in the cool grass and the school
chimes sounding the slow hours
through the friendly dark.
finished school
the
vice.
ers"
GES.
She had traveled,
all right, a
long way inside a rusty
freighter without a single porthole, to a planet out on the rim
of the Galaxy that was as barren
and dreary as a cosmic slag heap.
Five years on the rock pile, five
years of knocking yourself out
trying to explain history and
long,
114
bunch
rpHERE
-*-
was
lots
to
do,
of
You
left.
And Saturday
night
yippee
three-year-old
movies in the
And,
tin hangar.
your
five
up
for
Ha!
So they give you your ticket
back to Earth. You're on the
transport at last, and who can
blame you if you act just a little
crazy and eat like a pig and take
baths three times a day and lie
around your stateroom and just
steps
"And
will the
is full
be-
young fellow
like
of the
she
surveyed
herself critically.
SHE
stood
frozen
before the
length mirror.
swirling
"Allow
me
to
introduce
my-
THE
PASSENGER
was deserted,
the long rows of doors all closed
during the afternoon rest period.
As she stood there, a steward
came along the corridor with a
tray of glasses, nodded to her,
and passed on out of sight. She
Suddenly the
laughter
came
though it
had been suppressed and could be
held back no longer. Clear, merry, ringing and completely soundless, it poured through her mind.
again, bursting out as
"What
is
"What's happening?"
dear young lady," said a
man's voice within her head, "allow me to introduce myself.
name is Fairheart. Of the billion-
My
It
was
frightfully
116
"'VE heard
of telepaths," she
"My
my
around to see if there were anyone that I could talk to. Then I
came upon you considering your
own virtues, and you were so cute
and funny that I couldn't resist.
Then I laughed and you caught
me."
I've
Dekker's star.
However, I don't think you have
any right to go thinking around
the ship spying on people."
"Sh!" whispered
the
silent
voice. "You needn't shout. I'll go
away if you wish and never spy
on you again, but don't tell Captain Blake, or he'll have me sealed in a lead-lined cell or something. We're not supposed to
telepath around others, but I've
been sitting here with all sorts of
interesting thoughts just tickling
the edges of my mind for so long
that I had to go exploring."
"Why not go exploring on your
never
heard
of
else?
your_
THE
PASSENGER
117
cabin.
couch
posure.
He
"I
hopefully, 'Foot
still
pretty bad?'
you
said,
of darkness; then there appeared in the middle of the darkness a point of light, a globe, a
giant balloon of color. Suddenly
she was looking into the corner
of a stateroom which appeared
to hang in space. In the center
118
like a
the
same
time. Well,
now
are
we
even?"
have one?"
"I certainly
would
like to.
I'm
tilators to
bring
me
me, or unless
one?"
you
and changed
what do
you do all day in your stateroom?
Do you read? Do you play the
flute? Do you telepath sweet
Lenore
blushed
your
on
friend
girl
Dekker's
star?"
what
with
space
man
girl
would commune
me through
the depths of
is
calling her
pavilion? And
talents are limited.
ing
my
musical
However, I
brought some books
connected with the research I intend to do on Earth for my degree, and I have spent many
happy hours poring over the
thrilling pages of Extraterrestrial
Entomology and Galactic Ara-
do
read.
chnida."
"I
you
came
"What
is
it?"
"I haven't
even opened
it."
rriHEY
"and
THE
love to read
aloud,
heroic
it
PASSENGER
spout-
though
feeling
I
were
American
frontier or venturing
out into space in the first wild,
reckless, heroic -days of rocket
travel. But I soon founder. I get
swept away by the rhythm, lost
in the intricacies of cadence and
rhyme, and, when the pace slows
She
said
could
help
did,"
-*-
sides,
poetry.
softly,
you
"Perhaps
interpret
some
verses."
Then she
hands to keep them from trembling with the tiny thrill of excitement she felt.
more."
"Now
119
but
Jr
come
sengers' quarters.
you
hall to
But
Just start
easily.
your
left
and
can direct
down
.
the
."
"My
happy
telepath.
So you
When
lair."
SHE
laughed gaily to
herself.
acting like
a
"Now
schoolgirl before the Junior Prom.
You've got to get busy and wash
and dress and comb and brush."
stop
still
of miles
an inside track.
Now you'd
better
you know.
pretty,
And your
go."
She moved
just run
You're
to
the bookshelf,
frowning now, considered, selected and rejected. Finally she settled on three slim books bound in
russet leather, in glossy plastic,
two frosted
starlights,
in the
middle
rest
period,
"Down you
she said.
"I've
*-* pleasure
felt
a thrill of secret
go through her, a
reckless
a delightful sensation of
gaiety,
of
life
stirring
web
of sgcrets
and
couritersecrets
THE PASSENGER
to
be near my
he answered. "I told
work on the ship; I'm a
got
charges,"
you
T ENORE
go."
zoologist classifying
new specimens
life
And
any of the
of extraterrestrial
they're
I
felt so cloudy.
another corridor, and what
was that funny smell? These passages were poorly ventilated in
the lower levels; probably that
Down
121
beating heart.
Dimly she noticed the sign on
the door. "You you mean whatever it is you're taking care of is
in there with you?"
"Don't be frightened," his persuasive thought came. "It can't
hurt you. It's locked in a cage."
Then she slid the bolt and
turned the handle. Her head hurt
for an instant; and she was inside, a blue and silver shadow in
the dim anteroom, with the tray
in her hand and the books under
her arm and her pulse hammer-
ing.
122
SHE
could
see
him standing
reaching for
her hand, but there was an invisithere,
smiling,
the light
dimmed,
watery,
vanished.
transparent,
standing, staring at the
She was
his figure
lit
grew
com-
only by
again.
KENNETH HARMON
Two Timer
BROWN
By FREDRIC
Here
the
is
a brace of vignettes by
and sharp
like
Illustrated
short
a hypodermic.'
by STONE
Experiment
|
HE FIRST
time ma-
TWO TIMER
But it works."
The small-scale model looked
less.
like
scale
a small scale a
except for two
postage
dials in the
two
123
shall send
it
five
future."
He
shall
now
the mechanism
by
placing the cube on the platform
at exactly three o'clock. There-
activate
it
there."
"How
then?"
leagues.
"It
will,
as
my
hand
ap-
it
there,
it
is
there!"
it
."
Sentry
TIE
their
When
fancy weapons.
the
hold
it,
foot
by bloody
foot.
Like
damned
this
home
to see
bead and
pulsive monsters.
made with
them near the center of the Galaxy, after the slow, difficult col-
dozen thousand
planets; and it had been war at
sight; they'd shot without even
again.
And
fired.
The
alien
made
He
One
onization .of a
trying to negotiate, or to
peace.
Now, planet by
it
make
bitter planet,
TWO TIMER
FREDRIC
BROWN
125
Men
mules
like
By
J.
T.
M'INTOSH
had
to
Earth
be talked or tricked
its
inhabitants
into
leaving!
Illustrated
KVfk
126
by DICK FRANCIS
she
makes up
for in beauty.
might not have noticed that myself, but I've been told about it
often. She also has something
else she can and does use instead
of brains. It might be intuition.
Anyway,
ten
it's
shows
right
all
about
this job.
T'HE
little
star
* proaching
much
wasn't until we were curving in past Pluto that it occurred to any of us there
might be difficulties about the
IT
job.
"Why,
sure,"
said.
"Why
if
add, as
MEN
LIKE
intend
to,
in intelligence
MULES
we were ap-
had
been
once
Even
was
would be in two
hundred years, a hundred years,
even fifty. This was the Sun that
brighter.
stronger than
so,
it
it
warmed
is
the
node,
it's
called
and
you
power,
is
for all
And
scout commanders
are only lieutenants really, not
exalted Naval brass like capa scout.
tains
node,
like
me. Maneuvering
around slowly in your ungainly
man tub
ludicrous
little
seven-
and
or
ten-unit job, and you're pulling
a couple of thousand people or
hundreds of tons of cargo behind
you, then you feel you're somebody. It doesn't matter that your
equipage is as ugly and clumsy
as ever, and that you still have a
crew of only twenty or so to boss
responsibility
Navy and
command
was a big
my
first
job in actual
of the Natal,
and
it
at least not
All
When you
consider, however,
was transporting,
and from where and why, you
see why it was a big job. Earth,
after all, was the birthplace of
the human race. Though not by
any means the only place in the
Galaxy in which human beings
could live, it was certainly the
only place where human beings
could have evolved.
the
people
place to another.
WE
cular
The
principle of the
obvious. A powered, independent vessel to carry
five hundred people isn't a comskill.
transport ship
is
practicable.
Two
it's
im-
hundred
is
space,
space and,
when not
in
in
in use, are
left orbiting
around a nearby
planet until they're needed again.
There's next to no limit to the
number of units a node can draw.
At any
rate,
transport
at
can handle.
The only real difference between the transport ships and
locomotives
drawing
trucks
across the face of a planet is
the absence of gravity. Instead
of applying its^brakes like a
fpHE men
have
they're
laxed, indolent types unworried,
this
in
common
all re-
enough
"How
in transports.
did
over
ally.
I
MEN
left
the
LIKE
maneuvers
MULES
129
So
cast off,
Earth.
I
we went
them really
fore
out.
We
didn't need
is
meet
them, and we
to
hundreds of
were astonished to see how lightly clad they were. I don't mean
they were dressed like the girls
on the adventure magazine covers, but they wore only light, gay
clothes, not furs and snowboots
as I had half expected. They were
an attractive lot a very attracus,
tive lot.
130
men were
old
some and
athletic
a tall Terran
"I'm Wili. This is
Jan, and Bel Meni Reina
Tian Martin. Is that enough for
"Hello,"
pleasantly.
you
at
said
present?"
guessed that Wili had introduced seven people to us, including himself, because there were
seven of us. I introduced our
party in the "Same bald way.
"Captain Tony Wolkin.
sisI
My
whelming
personality,
Tian's
slow, friendly grin the apparent
spots.
larly
many
at
What
first
tin's eyes.
just a tall
leader,
had
to
make an
effort before
"Shall
away,"
we
I
asked
"or
bluntly,
got ac-
all
quainted first?"
much
"I'd
rather
we became
movement
ably.
make
yourself comfortable in
my
house?"
We
grass.
four wo-
been introduced to us
men and
young
The
more
striking
when
virile
attractiveness of so
many
human
characteristics are
up and mixed
gence,
shaken
violently together
strength,
race, intelli-
passion,
impa-
fluid
They were
them. Those
it
and
artists,
graceful,
every one of
were given
artistic
education as a
manship.
know
The Terrans,
of
in contrast,
were
cool.
Not one
hurried.
placid, patient
MEN
LIKE
and
MULES
I"
the
131
human
sin-
"Exactly!
stand."
my
to
tures.
her.
Tylo too.
"No," she was saying, "I've
never been to Earth before. But
you know that, don't you? You
must know everyone who comes
here these days."
"because
"What
tures of us.
our speech."
132
A S
bit of rote.
talked,
group,
and
wasn't sorry.
didn't
usual."
"The natives
to under-
selection.
You seem
are friendly."
ment
So I
any objec-
into the
and
back-
cultural
ground?
Probably they hadn't. I don't
have a tall I.Q., but I had the
brains and perception to
know
an
obscure urge to defend the Navy.
"There would be some pretty
shrewd reports going in some
from people you hardly noticed."
Wili nodded. "I guessed that.
ploration crew,"
said, feeling
We
MEN
GAIN
was
had that
feeling that
with these
like a child
tions."
much
**
LIKE
MULES
I'm
me
And
Wili,
Jan
intelli-
when
I felt
the time
was
right.
He
said, quelling
my
uneasi-
ness.
"The
being coy," added Jan indiffer"you can ask everyone individually. It won't make any
difference. We're staying here.
ently,
We
belong here."
133
doubt about
II
People didn't
that.
FT
--
that they
too,
ideas.
They made
my own
sense.
The Yunians,
Navy
didn't like
was
to avoid
It
in-
was
---so that
back to work.
If
134
it.
telling
AND
it
to shift them.
Of
course,
come.
could
would be said
at
imagine
Naval
what
HQ
if I
you?"
what
I
was
to
do now?
got
my
The
orders. Instead
."
Earth
now
set
MEN
LIKE
There were
still
warm
spots on
could not.
which had
the equator.
Yuny
MULES
where
of temperature to
which human
saw
135
was
It
idyllic
but
so
ephemeral.
after being so
long the
shirts
The crops
rush.
was
It
obstinate,
so unreasonable, so
so untypical of Wili
wanted to
wondered
if
they
ter.
but
own
The Navy
it
isn't
inhumane,
its
time.
fantastically
136
"And
wouldn't be laughing, if I
thought you could do it. But
though you've got plenty of power in that ugly little ship of
yours, how are you going to use
it to get seven thousand of us in
those shells out in space, when
we won't come? How are you going to use your force of seven
even your force of twenty-one
to make us?"
I
TTE
was
right.
Evacuating sev-
*-*-
"I might,"
occasion, to
on another
"have
said
Jan
this time,
"How
shuttling
at
there's
succeed,"
all.
kissed her.
her,
true!"
probably
"You'd
Then
looked at
puzzled.
Jan.
You know
what
It
had to abandon
And it was the same
wouldn't.
that idea.
down
thought
"Why
I re-
my
I"
was
more
my
"May
mis-
sion.
should
of.
walked a mile
well
perfectly
mean."
arms
me
off.
asked.
"About what?"
"You. Why you're
angry."
angrily.
viduals.
Nevertheless,
made
to
MEN
of it?"
LIKE
always
said thoughtfully,
take."
Now
let's
go back."
come
MULES
Earth or stay."
137
ply stood
expressionless.
"Three
so,
"
you've
being
said, "that
your
dedicated
is
life
how com-
to showing everyone
"A
little.
I first
do?"
broken."
"About
what?
Never
control
it."
of
herself
again.
"It's
We
of the
And
scenes in
it
my
kiss-
ing her like that had been anything more than a conventional
recognition of the fact that she
was an
attractive
girl.
anyway,
Jan.
I
can't just
fell
sight?"
138
in love with
forget
if
you
it,
said
at first
mind.
I
mean
history.
Ill
IT
tion with
much more
didn't interfere.
Tylo's
intuition
think
would let her down. She would
didn't
know when
to
to retreat.
and dropped
lazily
on the grass
shade
it
was
if
that was
also out of
was blowing
outside. Still, for Lenny Valley
it was undoubtedly a warm day
and the Terrans were used to
the light breeze that
slightly lower
we
temperatures than
were.
"Yes?"
if
nothing.
MEN
LIKE
looked at Jan
that
first,
had some
of course.
sort of
key
saw
her.
deep. She
liable to
be hurt,
ten.
Now
MULES
"EVERYTHING
the Terrans
"-^ made, everything they wore,
and on any
of the
Federation
HPHEY
* ing,
manship.
Tylo
at once. She wanted
Tylo
surprise,
"If
it's
it
it."
"Surely a
sunsuit
like
Jan's
?"
the
of
would be
know
tension
140
various
ences,
terns
from
about
utterly
you
explained.
of life in general.
Meni
way
diffidently mentioned,
possible.
actly,"
noticed fhis
to borrow a sunsuit like the Terran girls', and seemed puzzled
when they all agreed it was im-
your
the Terran
my
suit
He
Rather to
"happens to
served,
until
should be ashamed
"but it's only
just struck me that you must
have a refuge somewhere."
Jan looked up with a shadow
of a smile. I got the impression
she was mildly glad I'd worked
that out at last, as if the other
Terrans had said I was too stu"I
suppose
of myself,"
pid to see
long since.
They were
so sim-
it
I said,
it
that a
in
trating interludes.
wasn't.
down
needn't set
what
said
was
it
in detail
and
sincere
thoroughly conventional.
even
without
I
told her
of course,"
anywhere else."
Wili nodded coolly. "You've
even got the name," he said.
"That's exactly what we call it
Refuge."
"Underground?"
life
"No.
It's in
How
a refuge?"
take you
couldn't live
She listened
and
indifferently
when?"
I had
inside
'T^HEY seemed
her.
me that
come
had
in
my
voice seeming
from a long way off.
I said,
make
ing
my
keep-
word.
If
it's
still
141
all
I
when
way
out of
it.
bit-
when
touched her
resolutions dissolved.
all
I
my
but
good
kissed her
17VENTUALLY, however, we
H. reached the point when I had
to let her go
away from
her.
"What
142
"What would
for?
wasn't fighting."
free
do
you?"
re-
would that
it?"
myself whenever
I liked."
it
and stop
annoyed.
"Who's
play-acting?"
She
said.
I
was
play-acting?"
my
I
Jan.
in-
And
if
that was
buildings
of
Lenn,
how much
my
wore
uniform, secure in
I
looked
was
also
assimilated
by the Terrans,
for
dress
for
and
it
had always been soft and musical, more like the Terrans' than
most Federation voices. Now she
was
frankly
imitating
their
speech, with fair success, for her
ear for music was better than
much more
highly
civil-
They
gested a
Yunian ball.
The subway was the
first
sur-
'T^HERE was
no way of telling
took us. Since
the tunnel was a sealed vacuum,
it may have gone pretty fast
*-
how
143
acceleration
it
didn't
tell
They
forced
neither
Jan
to
me
most
as a place than
the
of
know something
Does anything
where else?"
it
of our
like
it
does to
But you
others.
life
here.
exist
any-
"No,"
I
admitted.
"You
wouldn't consider going away,
and staying away, because of
Tian?"
"I have
often."
she
IV
me no
possible
arise.
could
of. "If
strange after our last conversation. She said easily, "Let's leave
out the first part and consider
the second. Would I go to Yuny?
Certainly, on a visit. But I think
I'd come back here in the end."
"Because of the place or the
people?"
"The people. Earth counts less
144
WHAT
can
fuge?
that's Refuge.
gine
it
much
beautiful.
at that.
It
was
wasn't a huge
clearly built for
than the
seven
city,
yet
it
many more
thousand Ter-
rans.
"When we come
here," explain-
"Why
I
not come
here now?"
me
in
wonder.
"Why
it's
when we need
fuge,
it.
is
You
Resee
Presently,
we'll
difference."
I
When
exploration
about this.
the Terrans
became
Sun and
We
Terrans
were dressed as they were.
Their clothes were just right for
T
the conditions
elsewhere on Earth. I knew that
of
the
MEN
LIKE
MULES
They
would
never
be
blown
145
winds.
And
may
tell
146
re-
knew
situation.
me
economic
looking at
after
and
be necessary later."
rFiYLO was
tion,
cal
"This won't
make
the slightest
or
the
Navy
for
that
matter.
cities in
the ninety-odd
for once.
surely,
Ihad
known
this
other,
"But
selves?"
guess. For,
if
live here."
didn't
could be avoided.
wasn't likely that it
it
if
He knew
it
We
don't
was no harm in
want your peo-
interested Jan.
pleasant,
I
couldn't
But
was the first time she had
come into the open, and I didn't
know what I wanted to do more
evacuate Earth, Jan with the
rest, or try to make headway with
Jan and forget the business of
evacuation. There comes a time
when one's private life is more
have loved her
if
hadn't.
comment.
went
inside.
understood us?"
I knew they hadn't. "But that's
old bitterness.
a minor thing,"
anything?"
said.
"Suppose
MEN
more
this
least.
Refuge,
more
along about
all
LIKE
MULES
to
148
We
You
see?"
She broke
rated
higher.
example,
The
for
chairs,
were as beautiful
as
possible, not as comfortable as
possible. They weren't bulbous
JAN pirouetted
in the center of
was so nearly
so
together,
that
knew
we
?"
woman
I
it
yet.
in
my
mind. But
tell
She nodded.
MEN
LIKE
An odd
MULES
expression
as
I loved a quarter as
loved Jan.
That made
to
me
before,
it
different
and
much
from
knew
it
149
HHYLO
* Meni
back.
public.
filthy thing off
and
said.
"Do
still.
shouted.
"I promised Wili," she said in
a small voice.
"Ohnever mind. The Terrans themselves have shown us
as
I tell
you,"
said.
to
find
150
"You
not?"
said
little
irregularity
can't
do
that."
fiercely.
orders,
at
any
we may commit
doing so."
not any little irregularity
to destroy Refuge!" Tylo critd,
grasping my arm tightly. "It's
a crime!"
in
"It's
said
come
Tylo, puzzled.
"Take that
"Why
CHE
you
said,
^ people
fool!"
we
"You can't do it, Tony," said
Tylo. The first wild horror was
have,
seriously. "If
Terrans."
Once again she had found the
right thing to say without really
working it out.
some more.
no
"Suppose
"I've got
said.
calmed down
but
it
was such
hadn't the
city.
Wili
when we
me
hit
as
went
after her.
By
Lenn and
than
That
airlock.
had
bumped
the
closed
meant
running faster
still
could.
node was
the
in
minutes.
choice, Tylo," I
reported,
have done
quickly
can't live in
Lenn
any longer."
For a moment I almost let that
influence me. "Has he asked
you?" I demanded.
"No, but he will. I know he'll
ask me."
"You'll be much more use to
Wili on a young planet," I said.
Tylo snatched the door open
operation, for
didn't
know
ex-
ANYWAY,
*
knew
could
main pow-
It wasn't
operation and nobody lived
in that district. The twenty caretakers were gathered in one corner of Refuge and, if I was careful, I could raze section after
section until they made for cover.
When I was sure they were clear,
I could finish the job.
Jim
kept bothering
me
Ramon
with
ques151
had
but
to destroy
ation,
was
certain,
wanted
was
perfect.
of blast
going to use.
I set the ranger on the site of
the power-plant. It would remain
on the plant now, no matter what
the ship did. I set a trial limit of
sibly
rpHEN
-*-
put
knew
But
it.
All
to
do
it.
couldn't.
Certainly,
"Cancel those
MEN
LIKE
last
remarks,"
MULES
said.
The
knew now
had
failed.
Obvious-
threats.
I
the ship
set
where
it
had been
down
exactly
before, as if
flight.
When
stopped,
test
other noises
heard the ranger
the
153
'
same
the
WE
I hadn't committed
what even Tylo had called a
try
crime.
tude, because
At
but
last
it
alone.
I didn't want my crew to hear
what was said, so I went out
and met her outside.
For a full minute, we stood
each
facing
anything.
definitely.
it."
knew what
keep
I'll
word. If
go through
mean them."
We
wrong
wrong
circumstances,
at
the
time.
thought he might."
"You won't
to
say,"
edges.
154
my
really.
Tylo?"
It
as
left
when
didn't
think
it
was
likely.
"I gather
said,"
easy
as
isn't
to
destroy
as
it
looks?"
"That
one
will
is so. I
ever
Atomic power
is
enough."
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as ever.
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that
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realizing
Wili must
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"What
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"One other thing," said Wili.
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you?"
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