sunlight-beam

Updated: May 6, 2025

The canteen top was slightly convex, so the sunlight-beam would spread. Accuracy was not needed, therefore. He covered and uncovered it, and covered and uncovered it.... "They answered!" said Sylva eagerly. "They said 'Thorn Hard report at once!" There was a hissing, roaring noise over the hillside, where the red rocket-ship lay. Thorn paid no attention.

Murray Leinster - Invasion