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    Stairway to the Stars
    Stairway to the Stars
    Stairway to the Stars
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    Stairway to the Stars

    By Larry T. Shaw

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Stairway to the Stars - Larry T. Shaw

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Stairway to the Stars, by Larry Shaw

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

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      Title: Stairway to the Stars

      Author: Larry Shaw

      Release Date: October 24, 2007 [EBook #23159]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK STAIRWAY TO THE STARS ***

      Produced by Greg Weeks, LN Yaddanapudi and the Online

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      Yes, Earth may be a sort of fenced-off area, so far as other intelligent races of the galaxy are concerned. But not for the grandiose reasons that some have imagined....

      STAIRWAY TO THE STARS

      By Larry Shaw

      It was a stairway leading down, but it also led out into space—indirectly. And the situation had the aspects of a burlesque on Grand Hotel, but....

      John Andrew Farmer scowled at the octopus that sprawled on his living-room couch, rubbed his stubbly jaw with a stubby fist, and said, I love you.

      Farmer was uncomfortable. He was almost always uncomfortable, for various reasons; though it rarely if ever occurred to him, as he considered each individual irritant, that this was his normal state of existence. Right now he was acutely conscious of how ridiculous it must look for him to be making love to an octopus, but he was even more conscious of the very real pains of unrequited love.

      It wasn’t even a respectable, ordinary-looking octopus. To be accurate, it would have to be called a nonapus; each of the nine tentacles had a lobsterish claw at its tip, and there were various other unusual appendages. It would be hard enough to explain an earthly octopus in his living-room if the necessity arose, Farmer reflected for the teenteenth time—but how in the name of Neptune could he ever explain this?

      It had all started with Judge Ray. Ray had not been a real judge, obviously, but had used the title in lieu of any other first name. That was the first of the inexplicable things; Farmer would have expected the odd little old man to call himself a professor of something or other. But Ray insisted on Judge.

      Ray had come to the office of the Stein, Fine, Bryans Publishing Co., where Farmer was working as an assistant editor, and announced that he was about to write the greatest book of the age. And yes, he

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