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    Derelict
    Derelict
    Derelict
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    Derelict

    By Alan Edward Nourse and Ed Emshwiller

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      Derelict - Alan Edward Nourse

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Derelict, by Alan Edward Nourse

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Derelict

      Author: Alan Edward Nourse

      Illustrator: Ed Emshwiller

      Release Date: April 13, 2010 [EBook #31976]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DERELICT ***

      Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      What was the mystery of this great ship from the dark, deep reaches of space? For, within its death-filled chambers—was the avenue of life!

      DERELICT

      By Alan E. Nourse

      Illustrated by Ed Emsh

      John Sabo, second in command, sat bolt upright in his bunk, blinking wide-eyed at the darkness. The alarm was screaming through the Satellite Station, its harsh, nerve-jarring clang echoing and re-echoing down the metal corridors, penetrating every nook and crevice and cubicle of the lonely outpost, screaming incredibly through the dark sleeping period. Sabo shook the sleep from his eyes, and then a panic of fear burst into his mind. The alarm! Tumbling out of his bunk in the darkness, he crashed into the far bulkhead, staggering giddily in the impossible gravity as he pawed about for his magnaboots, his heart pounding fiercely in his ears. The alarm! Impossible, after so long, after these long months of bitter waiting— In the corridor he collided with Brownie, looking like a frightened gnome, and he growled profanity as he raced down the corridor for the Central Control.

      Frightened eyes turned to him as he blinked at the bright lights of the room. The voices rose in a confused, anxious babble, and he shook his head and swore, and ploughed through them toward the screen. Kill that damned alarm! he roared, blinking as he counted faces. Somebody get the Skipper out of his sack, pronto, and stop that clatter! What's the trouble?

      The radioman waved feebly at the view screen, shimmering on the great side panel. We just picked it up—

      It was a ship, moving in from beyond Saturn's rings, a huge, gray-black blob in the silvery screen, moving in toward the Station with ponderous, clumsy grace, growing larger by the second as it sped toward them. Sabo felt the fear spill over in his mind, driving out all thought, and he sank into the control chair like a well-trained automaton. His gray eyes were wide, trained for long military years to miss nothing; his fingers moved over the panel with deft skill. Get the men to stations, he growled, and will somebody kindly get the Skipper down here, if he can manage to take a minute.

      I'm right here. The little graying man was at his elbow, staring at the screen with angry red eyes. Who told you to shut off the alarm?

      "Nobody told

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