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    The Second Voice
    The Second Voice
    The Second Voice
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    The Second Voice

    By Mann Rubin

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Second Voice - Mann Rubin

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      Title: The Second Voice

      Author: Mann Rubin

      Release Date: September 5, 2009 [EBook #29910]

      Language: English

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      We proudly enter a new name in the science-fiction sweepstakes. This is Mr. Rubin's initial appearance in the field. His literary efforts to date add up quite handsomely, we think.

      QUOTE.

      I have sold to the TV show,

      TALES OF TOMORROW

      and two literary quarterlies have published my fiction. Last year I won the Stephen Vincent Benét Award for my one-act plays produced at Stanford University.

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      The reading pleasure is yours.

      the

      second

      voice

      by ... Mann Rubin

      Spud, world-famous dummy, talks to Mars with surprising results.

      Crawford completed the rehearsal in less than an hour. He listened to the orchestra run through its selections, okayed the song the guest vocalist had chosen, then finished up with a long dialogue between Spud and himself. When it was over he checked timing with the program director, made a few script changes and conferred briefly with a Special Service Officer about the number of troops the auditorium could hold. Everything was running smoothly. It was going to be a neat, action-packed show.

      Backstage he looked at his watch. He had almost two hours before the regular show began and he was restless. Two hours at Harlow Field could seem like two years. Guards and restrictions all over the place.

      Harlow Field was the largest experimental base in the world, a veritable garden of atoms, the proving grounds for every secret weapon ever imagined. The security and the tight regulations gave Crawford the jitters on each of his visits.

      He smoked a cigarette and tried making small talk with some of the soldiers on backstage detail. He posed for a picture and gave an interview to a reporter from an army newspaper, then excused himself and went to

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