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Updated: May 23, 2025
"Well," said Joan with a smile, "I'll put my money on Astro against a tyranno any time, pound for pound!" "Hear, hear!" chimed in Sykes, and forgetting his argument with Connel, he turned to the spaceman. "Say, Lou," he said, "when you get to Venus tell Higgy I said to show you that magnetic ionoscope he's rigging up. It might give you some ideas."
Astro stared at the doorway through which Quent Miles had disappeared. He scratched his head and muttered, "If it wasn't for just one thing, I'd swear by the stars that he's the same spaceman who " He stopped and shook his head. "Who what?" asked Strong. "Nothing, sir," said Astro. "I must be mistaken. It can't be the same man."
He hurried into the commander's room and stood at attention. Commander Jennsen, the Norwegian spaceman who had commanded the platform since before Rip's arrival as a raw cadet, was dictating into his command relay circuit.
But I’m nervous just the same. Great Cosmos, Commander! This is my first assignment, and they give me a whole world to myself and tell me to bring it home. Maybe it isn’t a very big world, but that doesn’t change things much." O’Brine chuckled. "I never expected to get an admission like that from a Planeteer." "And I," Rip retorted, "never expected to make one like that to a spaceman."
From terrific acceleration, they had dropped to zero. The ship was making high speed, but velocity cannot be felt. For the moment the men were weightless. A nearby spaceman had heard Rip's comment. He spoke in an undertone to the man nearest. His voice was pitched low enough that Rip couldn't object officially, but loud and clear enough to be heard by everyone. "Get this, gang.
"What the " exclaimed the startled spaceman. "Bangs, look out!" He tried to avoid the blow, but Loring's gun landed on the side of his head. Jardine crumpled to the deck. Bangs was out of his seat in a moment, at his pilot's call. The burly redheaded spaceman saw at a glance what was wrong and lunged for the hatch. Loring stepped toward him, holding his paralo-ray.
The spaceman was jerked from his post and the two came to a stop against the ceiling. Koa’s voice echoed through the ship. "Sorry. I’m not used to no-weight. Didn’t mean to grab you. Here, I’ll help you back to your post." He whirled the helpless spaceman like a bag of feathers and slung him through the air.
Strong clenched his fists. "Asleep, huh?" he growled. "Get me the Space Knight!" The boy returned to the audioceiver and began calling Miles, but there was no reply. After a few minutes Walters interrupted, "We can't waste any more time here, Steve. We've got to blast off!" "Get hold of Corbett on the Space Lance," said Strong to the spaceman.
Strong turned to the enlisted spaceman. "Contact the ships and see if everything's all right," he ordered. "Very well, sir," replied the spaceman, turning to the audioceiver microphone. "Spaceport control to rocket ships Space Lance, Space Knight, and Good Company. Come in, please." There was a crackling of static over the loud-speaker and then the calm voice of Tom filled the control tower.
Mason was frozen into a rigid statue, unable to move. "All right, Loring," yelled Shinny, "step back or I'll blast you like I did Mason!" Roger wrenched the rifle out of Loring's grasp and stepped back. "Good work, Mr. Shinny!" he said to the little spaceman. "You sure figured it right!" "Attention! Attention! This is Connel on the Polaris. Come in, Loring ..."
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