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Updated: June 6, 2025
I just about threw a fit the first time I ever saw a Martian, and the Venerians are even worse in some ways they're so clammy and dead-looking but now I've got real friends on both planets. One thing, though, gives me the pip. I read a story a while ago the latest best-seller thing of Thornton's named 'Interstellar Slush' or some such tr...."
"Earthmen," he began in a deep, clear voice, "we have gathered here this morning to greet you and thank you for the tremendous service you have done us. Across the awful void of empty space you have journeyed forty million miles to visit us, only to discover that Venerians were making ready to attack your world. Twice your intervention has saved our city.
They are symbols of your wonderful flight across space!" The Venerians turned to each of the Terrestrians and presented each with a small metal disc. Arcot spoke for the Terrestrians. "On behalf of myself and my friends here, two of whom have not had an opportunity to learn your language, I wish to thank you for your great help when we most needed it.
Since chlorine was rare on Venus, the men were forced to sacrifice most of their salt supply; but this chlorine so generated could be used over and over again. It was quite late when the Venerians left, to go again into the scalding hot rain, rain that seemed to them to be a cold drizzle.
He gazed long at the heavens of this world so strange, so beautiful to him, looking at the unfamiliar heavens, as star after star flashed into the constellations so familiar to terrestrians and to those Venerians who had been above the clouds of Venus' eternal shroud.
Westfall made sure that they had been tendered the highest hospitality of Mars. "We have drunk full deeply, thanks; and it was not really necessary, for we drank scarcely three weeks ago." Brandon and Westfall turned then and greeted the two Venerians, as different from the Martians as they were from the Terrestrials.
A concrete wall only a mile high and half a mile thick could be seen by any curious astronomer on the planet Venus assuming Venerians to be afflicted with terrestrial vices and would cost no more than a very small war, to say nothing of employing thousands who would otherwise dissipate the taxpayers' money on Relief.
Alcantro and Fedanzo, the Martian scientists, were listening intently, as were the two Venerians Dol Kenor and Pyraz Amonar. The eyes of the three newcomers, however, did not linger upon the group at the table, but were irresistibly drawn to one corner of the room, where six creatures lay in the heaviest manacles afforded by the stores of the Interplanetary Police.
They somewhat resembled Venerians, but they weren't Venerians, for their skin was a strange gray-white, suggesting raw dough. It seemed to Arcot that these strange, pale creatures were advancing at a slow walk, and that he stood still watching them as they slowly raised strange hand weapons.
The pilot was a man much like Arcot; quite tall, and of tremendous girth, with a huge chest and great powerful arms. His hands, like those of the Venerians, had two thumbs. With equal curiosity, the man stared at Arcot, floating in the air without apparent means of support. Arcot hung there a moment, then motioned that he wished to enter.
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