five-million-mile

Updated: July 26, 2025

I came to try to arrange so we'd both be stronger. We need you. You need us." There was a pause. Patrolman Willis swallowed. At five-million-mile intervals, in a circle fifty million miles across with the Huk world as its center, objects floated in space. Patrolman Willis knew about them, because he and Sergeant Madden had put them there immediately after the missile rockets ceased to explode.

Murray Leinster - A Matter of Importance