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    The Game of Rat and Dragon
    The Game of Rat and Dragon
    The Game of Rat and Dragon
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    The Game of Rat and Dragon

    By Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      The Game of Rat and Dragon - Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

      Project Gutenberg's The Game of Rat and Dragon, by Cordwainer Smith

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

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      Title: The Game of Rat and Dragon

      Author: Cordwainer Smith

      Illustrator: Hunter

      Release Date: August 5, 2009 [EBook #29614]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GAME OF RAT AND DRAGON ***

      Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Adam Buchbinder, and the

      Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      Transcriber's Note:

      This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1955. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      The Game of

      Rat and Dragon

      By CORDWAINER SMITH

      Only partners could fight this deadliest of

      wars—and the one way to dissolve the

      partnership was to be personally dissolved!

      Illustrated by HUNTER

      THE TABLE

      inlighting is a hell of a way to earn a living. Underhill was furious as he closed the door behind himself. It didn't make much sense to wear a uniform and look like a soldier if people didn't appreciate what you did.

      He sat down in his chair, laid his head back in the headrest and pulled the helmet down over his forehead.

      As he waited for the pin-set to warm up, he remembered the girl in the outer corridor. She had looked at it, then looked at him scornfully.

      Meow. That was all she had said. Yet it had cut him like a knife.

      What did she think he was—a fool, a loafer, a uniformed nonentity? Didn't she know that for every half hour of pinlighting, he got a minimum of two months' recuperation in the hospital?

      By now the set was warm. He felt the squares of space around him, sensed himself at the middle of an immense grid, a cubic grid, full of nothing. Out in that nothingness, he could sense the hollow aching horror of space itself and could feel the terrible anxiety which his mind encountered whenever it met the faintest trace of inert dust.

      As he relaxed, the comforting solidity of the Sun, the clock-work of the familiar planets and the Moon rang in on him. Our own solar system was as charming and as simple as an ancient cuckoo clock filled with familiar

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