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    In the Control Tower
    In the Control Tower
    In the Control Tower
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    In the Control Tower

    By Will Mohler

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 2008
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      In the Control Tower - Will Mohler

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of In the Control Tower, by Will Mohler

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      Title: In the Control Tower

      Author: Will Mohler

      Release Date: October 22, 2007 [EBook #23149]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IN THE CONTROL TOWER ***

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      Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has been preserved.

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      This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction, December 1963. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      IN THE CONTROL TOWER

      by WILL MOHLER

      Illustrated by GIUNTA

      Shadows haunted the dying alleys.

      Madness stalked the wide streets.

      And what lay at the city's heart?

      I

      Dewforth had almost most lost the habit of looking from windows. The train which took him to the city every morning passed through a country in the terminal stages of a long war of self-destruction. Whatever had been burned, botched, poisoned or exhausted in that struggle had been filled along the right-of-way, among drifts of soot and ground-mists of sulphurous smoke and chemical flatulence, to form a long tedious mural—a parody of cloud-borne Asiatic hills, precipitous and always so close to the tracks that their tops could not be seen.

      This was almost merciful, considering what had been done to the sky. When the train did not sneak between hills of slag, cinders, rubbish, garbage, dross and the bloody brown carrion of broken machinery, it shot like a bolt in the groove of an arbolest between unbroken barriers of advertising or through deep concrete troughs and roaring tunnels full of grimy light and grubby air.

      There was one inconsistancy in this scheme of things: Just as the train emerged from a deep valley of slag-hills and swung into a long curve, passengers on the left side had a panoramic view of the city—a frozen scene of battle between geometrical monsters, made remote and obscure by the dust of a thousand thousand merely human struggles, too small to be visible from the crusty windows of the train by the merely human eye. They had about one second in which to absorb this vision of corporate purpose. Then they were plunging into a final stretch of tunnel to

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