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    No Hiding Place
    No Hiding Place
    No Hiding Place
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    No Hiding Place

    By Richard R. Smith

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      No Hiding Place - Richard R. Smith

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of No Hiding Place, by Richard R. Smith

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      Title: No Hiding Place

      Author: Richard R. Smith

      Release Date: June 29, 2009 [EBook #29272]

      Language: English

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      Turnabout may not always be fair play in the gulfs between the stars. But so destructive and malicious are the Agronians of this story that we can readily forgive Richard Smith for filling their ship with an unexpected reversal of a victory technique almost too ghastly to contemplate. We have no sympathy for them—and neither has Mr. Smith. Still, we're rather glad he decided to make human heroism the cornerstone of a most exciting tale of conflict in space.

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      by ... Richard R. Smith

      The Earth was enveloped in atomic fire and the ship was a prize of war. But disaster may make victory mandatory.

      The ship leaped toward the stars, its engines roaring with a desperate burst of energy and its bulkheads audibly protesting the tremendous pressures.

      In the control room, Emmett Corbin listened to the screech of tormented metal and shuddered. The heat was suffocating, and acrid fumes assailed his nostrils and burned his eyes until he almost cried out in pain.

      Despite the agony, his gaze did not waver from the video set across the room. In the screen, Earth was a rapidly diminishing orb, charred and mottled with glowing atomic fires.

      Everything, a far corner of his mind whispered. Everything on Earth is dead!

      He was a carpenter and

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