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    A Matter of Magnitude
    A Matter of Magnitude
    A Matter of Magnitude
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    A Matter of Magnitude

    By Al Sevcik

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      A Matter of Magnitude - Al Sevcik

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      Title: A Matter of Magnitude

      Author: Al Sevcik

      Release Date: March 27, 2008 [EBook #24927]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A MATTER OF MAGNITUDE ***

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      A

      MATTER

      OF

      MAGNITUDE

      By AL SEVCIK

      When you're commanding a spaceship over a mile long, and armed to the teeth, you don't exactly expect to be told to get the hell out ...

      The ship, for reasons that had to do with the politics of appropriations, was named Senator Joseph L. Holloway, but the press and the public called her Big Joe. Her captain, six-star Admiral Heselton, thought of her as Great Big Joe, and never fully got over being awestruck at the size of his command.

      She's a mighty big ship, Rogers, he said proudly to the navigator, ignoring the latter's rather vacant stare and fixed smile. More than a mile long, and wider than hell. He waved his hands expansively. She's never touched down on Earth, you know. Never will. Too big for that. They built her on the moon. The cost? Well ...

      Swiveling his chair around, Heselton

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