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His space phone had turned on with the air supply. Taine's voice snarled: "We'll try! You keep back! They are not human!" But Baird ran toward him. The sensation of running upon magnetic-soled shoes was unearthly: it was like trying to run on fly-paper or bird-lime. But in addition there was no gravity here, and no sense of balance, and there was the feeling of perpetual fall.
By now the original crew would have trouble standing up on a trip back to Earth. You'd feel pretty heavy, yourself." Brown frowned. "Hm. I ah I shall ask for instructions on the matter." He stood erect. He didn't waver on his feet as the others did. But he wore the same magnetic-soled shoes.
One could imagine falling forty-two thousand miles, where one couldn't imagine falling a light-year. Calhoun was walking on the steel plates of a gigantic space-ship which floated among dozens of its fellows, all seeming derelicts and seemingly abandoned. He was able to walk on the nearest because of magnetic-soled shoes.
In about five minutes we'll be coming out into sunlight again, and we'll see the new Earth!" "Guarantee that it will be a new Earth," Cochrane said morosely, "and I'll come. I didn't do too well on the old one." But he followed her in all the embarrassment of walking on magnetic-soled shoes in a total absence of effective gravity. It was quite a job simply to start off.
The gas-giant planet outward from the sun was a perceptible disk instead of a diffuse glow. The oxygen-planet to sunward showed again as a lighted crescent. Presently Baird, in a human spacesuit, accompanied the Plumie into the Niccola's air lock and out to emptiness. His magnetic-soled shoes clung to the Niccola's cobalt-steel skin.
It was even more humiliating to know he had to do it because he couldn't afford not to. Babs appeared, obviously gloating over the mere fact that she was walking in magnetic-soled slippers on the steel decks of the space platform. Her eyes were very bright. She said: "Mr. Cochrane, hadn't you better come look at Earth out of the quartz Earthside windows?" "Why?" demanded Cochrane bitterly.
One could imagine falling forty-two thousand miles, where one couldn't imagine falling a light-year. Calhoun was walking on the steel plates of a gigantic spaceship which floated among dozens of its fellows, all seeming derelicts and seemingly abandoned. He was able to walk on the nearest because of magnetic-soled shoes.
Suppose we take off from here, dive at Earth, make a near-graze, and let its gravity curve our course! Like a cometary path! That's what we've got to do!" He kicked off his magnetic-soled shoes and went diving down to the airlock. Over his shoulder he panted an order for the radar-duty man to relay anything from Earth down to him there.
His magnetic-soled shoes gripping the smooth steel hull, the cadet made his way aft to the stern of the ship and began the climb down around the huge firing tubes and into the tubes themselves. "Hey, Astro," he yelled into the spacephone, "I'm inside the tubes. How about those torches?" The cadets had adjusted the wave length so that all could hear what was said.
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