Break a Leg
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Break a Leg - Jim Harmon
BREAK A LEG
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Jim Harmon
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BREAK A LEG
BREAK A LEG
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IF THERE IS ANYTHING I am afraid of, and there probably is, it is having a rookie Accident Prone, half-starved from the unemployment lines, aboard my spaceship. They are always so anxious to please. They remember what it is like to live in a rathole behind an apartment house furnace eating day-old bread and wilted vegetables, which doesn’t compare favorably to the Admiralty-style staterooms and steak and caviar they draw down in the Exploration Service.
You may wonder why anybody should make things so pleasant for a grownup who can’t walk a city block without tripping over his own feet and who has a very low life expectancy on Earth due to the automobiles they are constantly stepping in front of and the live wires they are fond of picking up so the street won’t be littered.
The Admiralty, however, is a very thorough group of men. Before they open a planet to colonization or even fraternization, they insist on knowing just what they are up against.
Accident Prones can find out what is wrong with a planet as easily as falling off a log, which they will if there is one lonely tree on the whole world. A single pit of quicksand on a veritable Eden of a planet and a Prone will be knee-deep in it within an hour of blastdown. If an alien race will smile patronizingly on your heroic attempts at genocide, but be offended into a murderous religious frenzy if you blow your nose, you can take the long end of the odds that the Prone will almost immediately catch a cold.
All of this is properly recorded for the next expedition in the Admiralty files, and if it’s any