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    The Measure of a Man
    The Measure of a Man
    The Measure of a Man
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    The Measure of a Man

    By Randall Garrett

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    The Measure of a Man
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    Randall Garrett

    Gordon Randall Phillip David Garrett (December 16, 1927 – December 31, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was a contributor to Astounding and other science fiction magazines of the 1950s and 1960s. He instructed Robert Silverberg in the techniques of selling large quantities of action-adventure science fiction, and collaborated with him on two novels about men from Earth disrupting a peaceful agrarian civilization on an alien planet.

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      The Measure of a Man - Randall Garrett

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Measure of a Man, by Randall Garrett, Illustrated by Martinez

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      Title: The Measure of a Man

      Author: Randall Garrett

      Release Date: January 3, 2008 [eBook #24135]

      Most recently updated: January 14, 2009

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MEASURE OF A MAN***

      E-text prepared by Greg Weeks, Bruce Albrecht, Mary Meehan,

      and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

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      Transcriber's Note:

      This etext was produced from Astounding Science Fiction, April, 1960. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      THE MEASURE OF A MAN

      By RANDALL GARRETT

      Illustrated by Martinez

      What is desirable is not always necessary, while that which is necessary may be most undesirable. Perhaps the measure of a man is the ability to tell one from the other ... and act on it.

      Alfred Pendray pushed himself along the corridor of the battleship Shane, holding the flashlight in one hand and using the other hand and his good leg to guide and propel himself by. The beam of the torch reflected queerly from the pastel green walls of the corridor, giving him the uneasy sensation that he was swimming underwater instead of moving through the blasted hulk of a battleship, a thousand light-years from home.

      He came to the turn in the corridor, and tried to move to the right, but his momentum was greater than he had thought, and he had to grab the corner of the wall to keep from going on by. That swung him around, and his sprained ankle slammed agonizingly against the other side of the passageway.

      Pendray clenched his teeth and kept going. But as he moved down the side passage, he went more slowly, so that the friction of his palm against the wall could be used as a brake.

      He wasn't

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