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    Daughters of Doom
    Daughters of Doom
    Daughters of Doom
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    Daughters of Doom

    By Herbert B. Livingston and W. E. Terry

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Daughters of Doom - Herbert B. Livingston

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Daughters of Doom, by Herbert B. Livingston

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      Title: Daughters of Doom

      Author: Herbert B. Livingston

      Illustrator: Bill Terry

      Release Date: April 18, 2008 [EBook #25094]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DAUGHTERS OF DOOM ***

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      DAUGHTERS

      OF DOOM

      By H. B. HICKEY

      Deep in space lay a weird and threatening world. And it was there that Ben Sessions found the evil daughters . . .

      Beyond Ventura B there was no life; there was nothing but one worn out sun after another, each with its retinue of cold planets and its trail of dark asteroids. At least that was what the books showed, and the books had been written by men who knew their business. Yet, despite the books and the men who had written them, Ben Sessions went past Ventura B, deliberately and all alone and knowing that the odds were against his returning alive.

      He went because of a file clerk’s error. More correctly, he went as the final result of a chain of events which had begun with the clerk’s mistake.

      The clerk’s name was Gilbert Wayne and he worked at the Las Vegas Interplanetary Port. It was Wayne’s job to put through the orders for routine overhaul of interplanetary rockets. Usually Wayne was quite efficient, but even efficient men have bad days, and on one of those days Wayne had removed from the active list the name of Astra instead of its sister ship, the Storan.

      The very next morning the Astra had been turned over to Maintenance. Maintenance asked no questions. It was that department’s job to take the ship apart, fix what needed fixing, and put it. Ten minutes later Jacobs saw Armando Gomez was the mechanic detailed to check the rocket tubes.

      Gomez, who always got that job because he was small and slender, dutifully dropped his instruments into his overall pockets and crawled into the left firing tube. Half an hour later he stuck his head out of the tube and yelled to Jacobs, who was in charge of the job:

      Amigo! How many hours this ship she got?

      Jacobs ran his finger down a chart and discovered to his surprise that the Astra had only two hundred hours on its log since the last overhaul. Ordinarily a ship was checked each thousand hours. He scratched his head but decided that if Operations wanted the Astra tuned it was none of his business. So he told Gomez not to ask useless questions

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