The Very Secret Agent
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The Very Secret Agent - Ed Emshwiller
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Title: The Very Secret Agent
Author: Mari Wolf
Illustrator: Ed Emsh
Release Date: March 12, 2010 [EBook #31612]
Language: English
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This etext was produced from If Worlds of Science Fiction November 1954. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.
THE VERY SECRET AGENT
BY MARI WOLF
Illustrated by Ed Emsh
Poor Riuku!... Not being a member of the human race, how was he supposed to understand what goes on in a woman's mind when the male of the same species didn't even know?
n their ship just beyond the orbit of Mars the two aliens sat looking at each other.
No,
Riuku said. I haven't had any luck. And I can tell you right now that I'm not going to have any, and no one else is going to have any either. The Earthmen are too well shielded.
You contacted the factory?
Nagor asked.
Easily. It's the right one. The parking lot attendant knows there's a new weapon being produced in there. The waitress at the Jumbo Burger Grill across the street knows it. Everybody I reached knows it. But not one knows anything about what it is.
Nagor looked out through the ports of the spaceship, which didn't in the least resemble an Earth spaceship, any more than what Nagor considered sight resembled the corresponding Earth sense perception. He frowned.
What about the research scientists? We know who some of them are. The supervisors? The technicians?
No,
Riuku said flatly. They're shielded. Perfectly I can't make contact with a single mind down there that has the faintest inkling of what's going on. We never should have let them develop the shield.
Have you tried contacting everyone? What about the workers?
"Shielded. All ten thousand of them. Of