They twinkled like jewels… Chapter 4.
Posted on | July 19, 2010 | No Comments
by Philip Jose Farmer
IV
Jack stood inside the wire and bent his neck back to watch a huge black
and silver oyster feel the dusk for a landing-field with its single
white foot and its orange toes. Blindingly, lights sprang to attention
over the camp.
When Jack had blinked his eyes back to normal, he could see over the
flat half-mile [...]
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They twinkled like jewels… Chapter 3.
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by Philip Jose Farmer
III
How easy it would have been to miss all this, if only he had obeyed his
father. But Mr. Crane was so ineffectual….
“Jackie,” he had said, “would you please go outside and play, or stay in
some other room. It’s very difficult to discuss business while you’re
whooping and screaming around, and I have a [...]
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They twinkled like jewels… Chapter 2.
Posted on | July 18, 2010 | No Comments
by Philip Jose Farmer
II
Jack was lucky. As one of the last to be herded into the truck, which
had been once used for hauling cattle, he had more room to breathe than
most of the others. He faced the rear bars. The vehicle was heading into
the sun. Its rays were not as hard on him as on [...]
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They twinkled like jewels… Chapter 1.
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by Philip Jose Farmer
I
Crane didn’t get the nice man’s name–until it
was far too late to do anything at all about it.
Jack Crane lay all morning in the vacant lot. Now and then he moved a
little to quiet the protest of cramped muscles and stagnant blood, but
most of the time he was as motionless [...]
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FLAMEDOWN.
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By H. B. FYFE
It was, of course, one Hell of
an ending for a trip to Mars…
Charlie [...]
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ANYTHING YOU CAN DO … Chapter 23.
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by DARREL T. LANGART
_[23]_
Stanton sat in his hotel room, smoking a cigarette, staring at the wall,
and thinking.
He was alone again. All the fuss and feathers and foofaraw were over.
Dr. Farnsworth was in another room of the suite, making his plans for a
complete physical examination of the Nipe. Dr. George Yoritomo was
having the time of his [...]
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ANYTHING YOU CAN DO … Chapter 22.
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by DARREL T. LANGART
_[22]_
The big tunnel inside the cliff was long and black, and the air was
stale and thick with the stench of rodents. Stanton stood still for a
minute, stretching his muscles. Crawling through that cramped little
opening had not been easy. He looked around him, trying to probe the
luminescent gloom that the goggles he wore [...]
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ANYTHING YOU CAN DO … Chapter 21.
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by DARREL T. LANGART
_[21]_
Captain Davidson Greer sat in a chair before an array of TV screens, his
gray-green eyes watchful. In the center of one of the screens, the
Nipe’s image sat immobile, surrounded by the paraphernalia in his hidden
nest. Other screens showed various sections of the long tunnel that led
south from the opening in the northern [...]
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ANYTHING YOU CAN DO … Chapter 20.
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by DARREL T. LANGART
_[20]_
The arrival of the great Stanley Martin was a three-day wonder in the
public news channels. His previous exploits were recounted, with
embellishments, several times during the next seventy-two hours. The
“arrival” itself was very carefully staged. A special ship belonging to
the World Police brought him in, and he was met by four Government
officials in [...]
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ANYTHING YOU CAN DO … Chapter 19.
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by DARREL T. LANGART
_[19]_
From the very moment he had heard that “Stanley Martin” had arrived to
take charge of the project, Bart Stanton pushed all thoughts of his
brother out of his mind. He had fouled up once by thinking of himself
rather than thinking of what had to be done; he would not make that
mistake again.
Nor, apparently, [...]
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