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Updated: May 19, 2025
And in consequence the jet-plane was ordered to change course and head west. After many hours the transport landed. A hillside rose before it. A vast, grass-covered area lifted up. It was a great door. The transport rolled deliberately into a monstrous, windowless, artificial cavern, and the hillside closed behind it. This was a base, too, but not like the one at Gissell Bay.
Then, of course, it was dropped automatically; and the next five days were deliciously, deliriously, ecstatically happy days for them both. At the time of this chronicle the status of interstellar flight was very similar to that of intercontinental jet-plane flight in the nineteen-sixties. Starships were designed by humanity's best brains; carried every safety device those brains could devise.
"Witch lights, they told us," the man explained. "Saved a lot of wiring, or something. They hey, what's that?" He was looking up, and Hanson followed his gaze. There was something whizzing overhead at jet-plane speed. "A piece of the sky falling?" he said. The man snorted. "Falling sidewise? Not likely, even here. I tell you, pal, I don't like this place. Nothing works right.
He's in charge of everything, from the security guards to the radar screens and the jet-plane umbrella and the checking of the men who work in the Shed. If he says you're all right, you probably are." Joe hadn't meant to seem impressive. He explained: "I don't know him too well. He knows my father, and his daughter Sally's been kicking around underfoot most of my life.
It jerked upward and climbed over the Shed's curve and was gone. But there were others and others and others. These were the fighter ships of the jet-plane guard. For months on end they had flown above the Shed, protecting it. Now they were going aloft to relieve the present watchers.
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