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    Devil’s Asteroid
    Devil’s Asteroid
    Devil’s Asteroid
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    Devil’s Asteroid

    By Manly Wade Wellman

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    An entertaining story that plays like '2001: A Space Odyssey' in reverse. Martians, an interplanetary cold war, asteroids, and devolution await.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilder Publications, Inc.
    Release dateOct 31, 2014
    ISBN9781633845107
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      Devil’s Asteroid - Manly Wade Wellman

      Devil’s Asteroid

      by Manly Wade Wellman

      ©2014 Wilder Publications

      Cover image © Can Stock Photo Inc. / isoga

      All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission except for brief quotations for review purposes only.

      Wilder Publications, Inc.

      PO Box 632

      Floyd, VA 24091

      ISBN 13: 978-1-63384-510-7

      It was not very large, as asteroids go, but about it clung a silvery mist of atmosphere. Deeper flashes through the mist betokened water, and green patches hinted of rich vegetation. The space-patroller circled the little world knowledgeably, like a wasp buzzing around an apple. In the control room, by the forward ports, the Martian skipper addressed his Terrestrial companion.

      I wissh you joy of yourr new home, he purred. Like many Martians, he was braced upright on his lower tentacles by hoops and buckles around his bladdery body, so that he had roughly a human form, over which lay a strange loose armor of light plates. In the breathing hole of his petal-tufted skull was lodged an artificial voice-box that achieved words. I rregrret—

      Fitzhugh Parr glowered back. He was tall, even for a man of Earth, and his long-jawed young face darkened with wrath. Regret nothing, he snapped. You’re jolly glad to drop me on this little hell.

      Hell? repeated the Martian reproachfully. But it iss a ssplendid miniaturre worrld—nineteen of yourr miless in diameterr, with arrtificial grravity centerr to hold airr and waterr; ssown, too, with Terresstrrial plantss. And companionss of yourr own rrace.

      accosted

      You! They drive you out? A thick, unsure voice accosted him.

      There’s a catch, rejoined Parr. Something you Martian swine think is a heap big joke. I can see that, captain.

      The tufted head wagged. Underr trreaty between Marrs and Earrth, judgess of one planet cannot ssentence to death crriminalss frrom the otherr, not even forr murrderr—

      It wasn’t for murder! exploded Parr. I struck in self-defense!

      I cannot arrgue the point. Yourr victim wass a high official perrhapss inssolent, but you Earrth folk forrget how eassy ourr crraniumss crrack underr yourr blowss. Anyway, you do not die—you arre exiled. Prreparre to dissembarrk.

      Behind them three Martian space-hands, sprawling like squids near the control-board, made flutelike comments to each other. The tentacle of each twiddled an electro-automatic pistol.

      Rremove tunic and bootss, directed the skipper. You will not need them. Quickly, ssirr!

      Parr glared at the levelled weapons of the space-hands, then shucked his upper garment and kicked off his boots. He stood up straight and lean-muscled, in a pair of duck shorts. His fists clenched at his sides.

      Now we grround, the skipper continued, and even as he spoke there came the shock of the landfall. The inner panel opened, then the outer hatch. Sunlight beat into the chamber. Goodbye, said the skipper formally. "You have thirrty ssecondss, Earrth

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