cover-story

Updated: May 24, 2025

"They're always glad to entertain a singer, and for people who do the fine decorative work they do, they're the most incompetent practical mechanics I've ever seen or heard of. You're going to travel from village to village?" "Yes. The cover-story is that we're lovers who have left our village in order not to make Vall's former wife unhappy by our presence," Dalla said. "Oh, good!

H. Beam Piper - Time Crime

But he would have to proceed with care, or he would key the plan before the time was ripe. There must be no great shake-up in personnel, or undue attention from Earth to the potentials of Project Hot Rod. Perhaps the saboteur's cover-story of a magneto-ionic effect would serve his ends as well at least until his comrades on Earth signaled that the time was ripe.

Leigh Richmond - Where I Wasn't Going