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    The Love of Frank Nineteen
    The Love of Frank Nineteen
    The Love of Frank Nineteen
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    The Love of Frank Nineteen

    By David Carpenter Knight

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      The Love of Frank Nineteen - David Carpenter Knight

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      Title: The Love of Frank Nineteen

      Author: David Carpenter Knight

      Release Date: January 28, 2009 [EBook #27921]

      Language: English

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      What will happen to love in that far off Day after Tomorrow? David C. Knight, editor with a New York trade publisher, agrees with the many impressed by the range of possible subjects and situations in science fiction. The result is a unique love story from that same Tomorrow.

      the

      love

      of

      frank

      nineteen

      by DAVID C. KNIGHT

      Minor Planets was the one solid account they had. At first they naturally wanted to hold on to it.

      I didn't worry much about the robot's leg at the time. In those days I didn't worry much about anything except the receipts of the spotel Min and I were operating out in the spacelanes.

      Actually, the spotel business isn't much different from running a plain, ordinary motel back on Highway 101 in California. Competition gets stiffer every year and you got to make your improvements. Take the Io for instance, that's our place. We can handle any type rocket up to and including the new Marvin 990s. Every cabin in the wheel's got TV and hot-and-cold running water plus guaranteed Terran g. One look at our refuel prices would give even a Martian a sense of humor. And meals? Listen, when a man's been spacing it for a few days on those synthetic foods he really laces into Min's Earth cooking.

      Min and I were just getting settled in the spotel game when the leg turned up. That was back in the days when the Orbit Commission would hand out a license to anybody crazy enough to sink his savings into construction and pay the tows and assembly fees out into space.

      A good orbit can make you or break you in the spotel business. That's where we were lucky. The one we applied for was a nice low-eccentric ellipse with the perihelion and aphelion figured just right to intersect the Mars-Venus-Earth spacelanes, most of the holiday traffic to the Jovian Moons, and once in a while we'd get some of the Saturnian trade.

      But I was telling you about the leg.

      It was during the non-tourist season and Min—that's the little woman—was doing the spring cleaning. When she found the leg she brought it right to me in the Renting Office. Naturally I thought it belonged to one of the servos.

      Look at that leg, Bill, she said. It was in one of those lockers in 22A.

      That was

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