
- 230 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Four-Day Planet
About this book
I went through the gateway, towing my equipment in a contragravity hamper over my head. As usual, I was wondering what it would take, short of a revolution, to get the city of Port Sandor as clean and tidy and well lighted as the spaceport area. I knew Dad's editorials and my sarcastic news stories wouldn't do it. We'd been trying long enough. The two girls in bikinis in front of me pushed on, still gabbling about the fight one of them had had with her boy friend, and I closed up behind the half dozen monster-hunters in long trousers, ankle boots and short boat-jackets, with big knives on their belts. They must have all been from the same crew, because they weren't arguing about whose ship was fastest, had the toughest skipper, and made the most money. They were talking about the price of tallow-wax, and they seemed to have picked up a rumor that it was going to be cut another ten centisols a pound. I eavesdropped shamelessly, but it was the same rumor I'd picked up, myself, a little earlier...
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Table of contents
- THE SHIP FROM TERRA
- REPORTER WORKING
- BOTTOM LEVEL
- MAIN CITY LEVEL
- MEETING OUT OF ORDER
- ELEMENTARY, MY DEAR KIVELSON
- ABOARD THEJAVELIN
- PRACTICE, 50-MM GUN
- MONSTER KILLING
- MAYDAY, MAYDAY
- DARKNESS AND COLD
- CASTAWAYS WORKING
- THE BEACON LIGHT
- THE RESCUE
- VIGILANTES
- CIVIL WAR POSTPONED
- TALLOW-WAX FIRE
- THE TREASON OF BISH WARE
- MASKS OFF
- FINALE