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    The Minus Woman
    The Minus Woman
    The Minus Woman
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    The Minus Woman

    By R. R. (Russell Robert) Winterbotham

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      The Minus Woman - R. R. (Russell Robert) Winterbotham

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      Title: The Minus Woman

      Author: Russell Robert Winterbotham

      Release Date: December 26, 2009 [EBook #30761]

      Language: English

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      THE MINUS WOMAN

      By

      Russ Winterbotham

      What made the mass of this tiny asteroid fluctuate in defiance of all known physical laws? It was an impossible fact—but then, so was the girl who they knew couldn't exist!

      Red Brewer had plugged his electric razor into the lab circuit and he was running it over his pink jowls while I tried to discover what was haywire about the balance scales.

      Have you noticed, Red said above the clatter of his shaver, how much less you have to shave on an asteroid?

      I still shave every day, I said. There was something definitely wrong with the scales. The ten-gram weight didn't balance two five-gram weights. Instead it weighed 7.5 grams. And then, suddenly, the cockeyed scales would get ornery and the two five-gram weights would weigh 7.5 grams and the ten-gram slug would weigh what it should.

      I don't, said Red. I shave once a week. Back on terra I shaved every day, but not here. And I don't even have a beard to show for it.

      I didn't answer. There were tougher problems on my mind than whiskers, but of course Red

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