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    Fly By Night
    Fly By Night
    Fly By Night
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    Fly By Night

    By Ed Emshwiller and Arthur Dekker Savage

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Fly By Night - Ed Emshwiller

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Fly By Night, by Arthur Dekker Savage

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      Title: Fly By Night

      Author: Arthur Dekker Savage

      Illustrator: Ed Emsh

      Release Date: June 7, 2010 [EBook #32734]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FLY BY NIGHT ***

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      FLY by NIGHT

      By Arthur Dekker Savage

      Illustrated by Ed Emsh

      [Transcriber Note: This etext was produced from IF Worlds of Science Fiction May 1954. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

      A young man and a young woman alone on the first over-the-moon ship. The world cheered them as the most romantic adventurers in all history. Do-gooders decried them as immoral stunters. Gaunt, serious militarists pronounced them part of the most crucial experiment ever undertaken....

      The general introduced them in the ship's shadow, a trim lieutenant, a clean-cut major. You probably already think of each other as Carol and Ken. At any rate, there are no two people in the world who have heard as much about each other without previously meeting.

      She offered her hand and he took it, held it for a long moment while their eyes locked. Hello, Carol, he said warmly. I'd have known you from your pictures. And he realized as never before what a poor substitute were the hoarded scraps of paper.

      Hello—Ken. A smile made her face radiant. I've sort of studied your pictures too.

      Ken turned his eyes to the crowd—a roaring, cheering multitude surrounding the poised rocket ship here on the California desert in this zero hour. To certain harried physicists and engineers, it was a moment promising paramount achievement. To romanticists of 1966, watching their video screens avidly, it was fulfillment of their most sensual dreams: a beautiful girl being given wholly and unreservedly to a handsome young man; the flight around the moon was merely an added fillip. To a few gaunt military psychologists it was the end of a long nightmare of protests by women's clubs,

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