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    The Inhabited
    The Inhabited
    The Inhabited
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    The Inhabited

    By William Ashman and Richard Wilson

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Inhabited - William Ashman

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Inhabited, by Richard Wilson

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      Title: The Inhabited

      Author: Richard Wilson

      Illustrator: Ashman

      Release Date: February 25, 2010 [EBook #31392]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE INHABITED ***

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      Transcriber's Note:

      This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction January 1953. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      Containing a foe is sound military thinking—unless it's carried out so literally that everybody becomes an innocent Trojan Horse!

      The Inhabited

      By

      RICHARD WILSON

      Illustrated by ASHMAN

      wo slitted green eyes loomed up directly in front of him. He plunged into them immediately.

      He had just made the voyage, naked through the dimension stratum, and he scurried into the first available refuge, to hover there, gasping.

      The word he does not strictly apply to the creature, for it had no sex, nor are the words naked, scurried, hover and gasping accurate at all. But there are no English words to describe properly what it was and how it moved, except in very general terms. There are no Asiatic, African or European words, though perhaps there are mathematical symbols. But, because this is not a technical paper, the symbols have no place in it.

      He was a sort of spy, a sort of fifth-columnist. He had some of the characteristics of a kamikaze pilot, too, because there was no telling if he'd get back from his mission.

      Hovering in his refuge and gasping for breath, so to speak, he tried to compose his thoughts after the terrifying journey and adjust himself to his new environment, so he could get to work. His job, as first traveler to this new world, the Earth, was to learn if it were suitable for habitation by his fellow beings back home. Their world was about ended and they had to move or die.

      He was being discomfited, however, in his initial adjustment. His first stop in the new world—unfortunately, not only for his dignity, but for his equilibrium—had been in the mind of a cat.

      t was his own fault, really. He and the others had decided that his first in a series of temporary habitations should be in one of the lower order of animals. It was a matter of precaution—the mind would be easy to control, if it came to a contest. Also, there would be less chance of running into a mind-screen and being trapped or destroyed.

      The cat had no mind-screen, of course; some might even have argued that she didn't have a mind, especially the human couple she

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