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    World Without War
    World Without War
    World Without War
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    World Without War

    By Ed Emshwiller and E.G. von Wald

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      World Without War - Ed Emshwiller

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of World Without War, by E. G. von Wald

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

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      Title: World Without War

      Author: E. G. von Wald

      Illustrator: Ed Emsh

      Release Date: May 5, 2010 [EBook #32254]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WORLD WITHOUT WAR ***

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      Transcriber's Note:

      This etext was produced from If Worlds of Science Fiction September 1954. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      World Without War

      BY E. G. VON WALD

      Illustrated by Ed Emsh

      Cooperation was all right back in the dark ages but this was an era of super culture and hi-psi intelligence. And love was no laughing matter. People who cooperated, even biologically, were unlawful and....

      ark knew he shouldn't stop. He was already late for Jennette's birthday party, but the sight of three people out in the open like this was too much.

      He pulled around and hovered over the undulating flow of glassy magma, frozen on its way to the long, dry Potomac river bed, with its shallow caverns and fascinating mile-wide potholes. Just under an overhanging cliff of half-vitrified soil were two cars, obviously damaged. The three men were standing beside them.

      Mark laughed out loud. It was not often that one found three people at once. And so close to each other. The scene there, with the long, slanting rays of milky sunlight glancing off the ribbing of the flats and sparkling through the million brittle shards of collapsed debris, filled him with a certain poetic exultation.

      By the stars, he murmured to himself happily.

      Bubbling with good humor, he slipped down a little closer to the hole, staying up hard against the overhanging cliff. He was feeling too cheerful to use his rightful advantage over them, and decided to use a handgun, since they had nothing better.

      This was a mistake, of course. He was only moving along at a hundred miles an hour now. Too slow for safe shooting, particularly with the bumpy air in the hole. But he happily disregarded this, as he pushed open a view port and blazed away with a zuzz pistol.

      Almost immediately

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