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    Irresistible Weapon
    Irresistible Weapon
    Irresistible Weapon
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    Irresistible Weapon

    By Ed Emshwiller and Horace Brown Fyfe

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Irresistible Weapon - Ed Emshwiller

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Irresistible Weapon, by Horace Brown Fyfe

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      Title: Irresistible Weapon

      Author: Horace Brown Fyfe

      Illustrator: Ed Emshwiller

      Release Date: September 15, 2009 [EBook #29994]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IRRESISTIBLE WEAPON ***

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      There's no such thing as a weapon too horrible to use; weapons will continue to become bigger, and deadlier. Like other things that can't be stopped....

      IRRESISTIBLE WEAPON

      By H. B. Fyfe

      Illustrated by ED EMSH

      In the special observation dome of the colossal command ship just beyond Pluto, every nervous clearing of a throat rasped through the silence. Telescopes were available but most of the scientists and high officials preferred the view on the huge telescreen.

      This showed, from a distance of several million miles, one of the small moons of the frigid planet, so insignificant that it had not been discovered until man had pushed the boundaries of space exploration past the asteroids. The satellite was about to become spectacularly significant, however, as the first target of man's newest, most destructive weapon.

      I need not remind you, gentlemen, white-haired Co-ordinator Evora of Mars had said, "that if we have actually succeeded in this race against our

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