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    Contamination Crew
    Contamination Crew
    Contamination Crew
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    Contamination Crew

    By Alan Edward Nourse and Ed Emshwiller

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Contamination Crew - Alan Edward Nourse

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Contamination Crew, by Alan Edward Nourse

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      Title: Contamination Crew

      Author: Alan Edward Nourse

      Illustrator: Ed Emshwiller

      Release Date: April 9, 2010 [EBook #31932]

      Language: English

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      CONTAMINATION CREW

      BY ALAN E. NOURSE

      Illustrated by Ed Emsh

      Orders were orders! The creature had to be killed.

      But just how does one destroy the indestructible?

      (The following is taken from the files of the Medical Disciplinary Board, Hospital Earth, from the preliminary hearings in re: The Profession vs. Samuel B. Jenkins, Physician; First Court of Medical Affairs, final action pending.)

      COM COD S221VB73 VOROCHISLOV SECTOR; 4th GALACTIC PERIOD 22, 2341 GENERAL SURVEY SHIP MERCY TO HOSPITAL EARTH

      VIA: FASTEST POSSIBLE ROUTING, PRIORITY UNASSIGNED

      TO: Lucius Darby, Physician Grade I, Black Service Director of Galactic Periphery Services, Hospital Earth

      FROM: Samuel B. Jenkins, Physician Grade VI, Red Service General Practice Patrol Ship Lancet (Attached GSS Mercy pro tem)

      SIR: The following communication is directed to your attention in hopes that it may anticipate various charges which are certain to be placed against me as a Physician of the Red Service upon the return of the General Survey Ship Mercy to Hospital Earth (expected arrival four months from above date).

      These charges will undoubtedly be preferred by one Turvold Neelsen, Physician Grade II of the Black Service, and Commander of the Mercy on its current survey mission into the Vorochislov Sector. Exactly what the charges will be I cannot say, since the Black Doctor in question refuses either audience or communication with me at the present time; however, it seems likely that treason, incompetence and mutinous insubordination will be among the milder complaints registered. It is possible that even Malpractice might be added, so you can readily understand the reasons for this statement—

      The following will also clarify my attached request that the GSS Mercy, upon arrival in orbit around Hospital Earth, be met immediately by a decontamination ship carrying a vat of hydrochloric acid, concentration 3.7%, measuring no less than twenty by thirty by fifty feet, and that Quarantine officials be prepared to place the entire crew

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