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    This One Problem
    This One Problem
    This One Problem
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    This One Problem

    By M. C. Pease

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      This One Problem - M. C. Pease

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of This One Problem, by M. C. Pease

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      Title: This One Problem

      Author: M. C. Pease

      Release Date: July 8, 2009 [EBook #29354]

      Language: English

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      Piracy in the past has acquired the gaudy technicolor of high romance. In the present, piracy is as tawdry as tabloid headlines. But piracy in the far future, when presented as vividly as in this story, can be scary stuff.

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      by ... M. C. Pease

      The shortest distance between two points may be the long way around—and a path of dishonor may well turn into the high road to virtue.

      Marc Polder, Resident Comptroller of Torran, strolled idly down the dusty littered path that passed for a street. In the half-light of the pint-sized moon overhead the town looked almost romantic. One day, when civilization had at last been brought to these Asteroid bases, memory would make Torran heroic. But now, with the fact before the eyes, it was merely dirty and squalid. Only the scum of the Solar System called it home.

      Idly Marc Polder pushed a swinging door aside and entered what passed on Torran for a restaurant. Pushing his way through the tables until he saw his only aide, Female Personnel Manager Lee Treynor, he sat down.

      What's new? he asked.

      Not a thing. But for a certain softness of voice and curve of unmade-up lips, Lee could have passed for a boy. Her light hair was short, she wore a man's coveralls. She added, "Only the usual murder,

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