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    Dead World
    Dead World
    Dead World
    Ebook41 pages31 minutes

    Dead World

    By George Barr and Jack Douglas

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Simple, predictable, more about technology and its futuristic potential than about people.

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    Dead World - George Barr

    The Project Gutenberg EBook of Dead World, by Jack Douglas

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

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    Title: Dead World

    Author: Jack Douglas

    Illustrator: Barr

    Release Date: December 26, 2008 [EBook #27631]

    Language: English

    *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DEAD WORLD ***

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

    DEAD WORLD

    By JACK DOUGLAS

    Illustrated by BARR

    Out on the ice-buried planet, Commander Red Stone led his Free Companions to almost certain death. They died for a dangerous dream that had only one chance in a thousand trillion to come true. Is there a better reason for dying?

    ... although the most recent star to die, RNAC 89778 in the distant Menelaus galaxy (common name, Menelaus XII), had eight inhabited planets, only some one thousand people of the fifth planet escaped and survived as a result of a computer error which miscalculated the exact time by two years. Due to basic psycho-philo maladjustments the refugees of Menelaus XII-5 are classified as anti-social-types-B-6 and must be considered unstable. All anti-social-types-B-6 are barred from responsible positions in United Galaxies by order of the Inter-Galactic Council.

    —Short History of The United Galaxies

    Yuan Saltario started it. He was serving in my Company and he was one of them. A Menelaus XII-5 unstable, and don't ever call that damned little planet by its number if you meet one of them. They call it Nova-Maurania. But you won't meet one of them. Or maybe you will, maybe they did make it. I like to think they did.

    There were a lot of them in the Companies in 3078. Restless men. The Companies were the logical place for them. We're still classified anti-social-B-6, too. Every year it's harder to get recruits, but we still have to be careful who we take in. We took Yuan Saltario. There was something about him from the very start.

    Why do you want to join a Free Company? He was a short, humanoid type with deep black eyes and a thin, lipless mouth that never smiled.

    I'm an anti-social. I like to fight. I want to fight.

    A misfit joining the misfits? A grudge against the Council? It's not good enough, mister, we live on the Council. Try again.

    Saltario's black

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