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Updated: May 26, 2025

If not, you'd better take 'em while the taking's good; and if they are ready for us, we'd better get out of here while we're all in one piece." And in fact Nerado had been in touch with the scientists of his city; had been instructing them in the construction of converters and generators of such weight and power that they could crush even the defenses of the super-ship.

E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith - Triplanetary