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Join Our Gang? - Douglas
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Title: Join Our Gang?
Author: Sterling E. Lanier
Illustrator: Douglas
Release Date: September 14, 2009 [EBook #29987]
Language: English
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JOIN
OUR GANG?
By STERLING E. LANIER
They didn't exactly hold a gun at anybody's head; all they offered was help. Of course, they did sort of encourage people to ask for help....
Illustrated by Douglas
ommander William Powers, subleader of Survey Group Sirian Combine—1027798 and hence first officer of its ship, the Benefactor, stared coldly out of his cabin port. The Benefactor was resting on the bedrock of Island Twenty-seven of the world called Mureess by its natives. Like all the other such names, it meant the world,
just as the natives' name for themselves, Falsethsa, meant the people,
or us,
or the only race.
To Commander Powers, fifty years old, with eleven of them in Survey work, the world was Planet Two of a star called something unpronounceable in the nebula of something else equally pointless. He had not bothered to learn the native name of Island Twenty-seven, because his ship had mapped one thousand three hundred and eighty-six islands, all small, and either rocky or swampy or both. Island Twenty-seven, to him, had only one importance, and that was its being the site of the largest city on