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    Manners of the Age
    Manners of the Age
    Manners of the Age
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    Manners of the Age

    By Horace Brown Fyfe and Marchetti

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Manners of the Age - Horace Brown Fyfe

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Manners of the Age, by Horace Brown Fyfe

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      Title: Manners of the Age

      Author: Horace Brown Fyfe

      Illustrator: Marchetti

      Release Date: June 10, 2010 [EBook #32764]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MANNERS OF THE AGE ***

      Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      Transcriber's Note:

      This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction March 1952. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      Manners of the Age

      By H. B. FYFE

      Illustrated by MARCHETTI

      With everyone gone elsewhere, Earth was perfect for gracious living—only there was nothing gracious about it!

      he red tennis robot scooted desperately across the court, its four wide-set wheels squealing. For a moment, Robert's hard-hit passing shot seemed to have scored. Then, at the last instant, the robot whipped around its single racket-equipped arm. Robert sprawled headlong in a futile lunge at the return.

      Game and set to Red Three, announced the referee box from its high station above the net.

      Ah, shut up! growled Robert, and flung down his racket for one of the white serving robots to retrieve.

      Yes, Robert, agreed the voice. Will Robert continue to play? Interpreting the man's savage mumble as a negative, it told his opponent, Return to your stall, Red Three!

      Robert strode off wordlessly toward the house. Reaching the hundred-foot-square swimming pool, he hesitated uncertainly.

      Weather's so damned hot, he muttered. Why didn't the old-time scientists find out how to do something about that while there were still enough people on Earth to manage it?

      He stripped off his damp clothing and dropped it on the beach of white sand. Behind him sounded the steps of a humanoid serving robot, hastening to pick it up. Robert plunged deep into the cooling water and let himself float lazily to the surface.

      Maybe they did, he thought. I could send a robot over to the old city library for information.

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