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    Monsoons of Death
    Monsoons of Death
    Monsoons of Death
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    Monsoons of Death

    By Gerald Vance

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      Monsoons of Death - Gerald Vance

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Monsoons of Death, by Gerald Vance

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      Title: Monsoons of Death

      Author: Gerald Vance

      Release Date: May 31, 2010 [EBook #32618]

      Language: English

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      MONSOONS OF DEATH

      By GERALD VANCE

      [Transcriber Note: This etext was produced from Amazing Stories December 1942. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

      Dreadful weaving shapes slithered through the storm toward him

      Ward Harrison got himself into a barrel of trouble when he accepted a job at the Martian Observation Station. There were fearful things on Mars....

      The gleaming insignia stripes on Lieutenant Ward Harrison's broad shoulders were less than two days old when he received his first assignment.

      Lieutenant Harrison, his commanding officer said, glancing from the papers he held in his hands to the young man who stood at attention before his desk, this will be your first touch of action since you were commissioned. A lot depends on how you handle yourself.

      Yes sir, Ward answered. He straightened his already poker-straight spine. His face was young and serious and intent. There was a blaze of zeal in his blue eyes and grimness in the tightness of his jaw. But a lock of blonde hair that fell over his forehead lent an incongruously boyish cast to his grimly set features.

      His commander, a Planetary Colonel, with thirty years of void experience behind him, smiled slightly and looked down at the papers in his hands again.

      Your training record has been excellent, Harrison, he said, and I am gratified to note that you apparently realize the seriousness of our work. He leaned back in his chair, looked up at the young Lieutenant. It took science hundreds of years to lick the problem of crossing the void of space to the outer planets. Now, that that much has been accomplished, the task of exploring and possibly developing and colonizing those planets is ahead of us. The most important part of that work is up to men like you, Lieutenant Harrison. You are attached to the meteorology department with the job of doing the preliminary analysis and exploration on the various planets whose raw materials are essential to Earth. Never for a minute underestimate the importance of that work.

      Ward cleared his throat. I won't sir.

      "Good. There are other branches of the service that might seem more glamorous, but all of them are dependent on your research and findings. Without meteorological survey the

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