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    The Metal Moon
    The Metal Moon
    The Metal Moon
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    The Metal Moon

    By Everett C. Smith and R.F. Starzl

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Metal Moon - Everett C. Smith

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      Title: The Metal Moon

      Author: Everett C. Smith

              R.F. Starzl

      Release Date: October 17, 2012 [EBook #41084]

      Language: English

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      The Metal Moon

      By EVERETT C. SMITH and R. F. STARZL

      Based upon the Fourth Prize ($10.00) winning plot of the Interplanetary Plot Contest won by Everett C. Smith, 116 East St., Lawrence, Mass

      [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Wonder Stories Quarterly Winter 1932. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

      The ship was now coming close to the vast curve of the crystal city. The earthmen became aware that the part below the city level was a dull ugly black.

      EVERETT C. SMITH

      R. F. STARZL

      In this story, the joint product of two imaginative minds, we get a very unusual picture of some of the possibilities of interplanetary exploration.

      We know that as soon as interplanetary travel is possible, expeditions from the earth will be ranging the length and breadth of the solar system searching out the thousands of wonders that are to be discovered.

      It is quite possible that some of the explorers, whether through accident or desire, may colonize the other planets and develop under new and unusual conditions a new branch of the human race. It is doubtlessly true that if each of the solar planets were to be colonized, at the end of several hundred centuries there would be nine races of human beings who might differ radically from each other and in fact might not recognize each other as members of the same human stock.

      In this story we do not see nine races but we do see four of them and Mr. Starzl has united the four in a gripping narrative of the great spaces.

      THE METAL MOON

      The three men in the tiny space ship showed their apprehension as they watched the gravity meters. Something was distinctly wrong with the ship.

      Are you sure that there isn't some undiscovered moon of Jupiter? asked the youngest of them. He was only about 25, which was very young indeed when his scientific attainments were considered, even for the human race's stage of intellectual development in 1,000,144 A. D. His figure was stocky, powerful, his face rather thin, bold, with piercing black eyes. He was naked, save for short, brilliantly red trunks of metalsilk. His name, Sine, followed by a numerical identification code, was tattooed indelibly in thin, sharp characters on his broad, bronze-hard chest.

      The man at the ampliscope removed his head from the eyepiece and shook his head impatiently. His body was bronzed and spare, but the complete absence of hair on his head made him look older than the 48 years indicated by the code following the name on his chest, Kass.

      I tell you, Sine, this pull is no gravity effect. No body of such mass could be invisible, unless it were composed entirely of protons. And even then it would yank Jupiter out of shape, making it look like a pear, but there—

      Jupiter presented its usual appearance. The solar system's largest planet seemed enormous at this distance of only a few million miles. It showed its usual marked depression at the poles, but no distortion such as might be caused by a nearby body of enormous mass.

      What do you think, Lents? Kass turned to the third occupant of the little space ship. Lents raised his broad placid face from the pad upon which he had been figuring a complicated equation. He was a large man, slow-moving, and fat. He was sensitive to that fact, so that, besides the usual trunks, he also wore a toga-like garment. His brown eyes blinked in folds of flesh.

      No doubt you're right, Kass, Lents rumbled in a deep voice. I can't see how such a body could exist without pulling all of Jupiter's moons to itself. No, we seem to be specially honored by its attention.

      They looked at one another soberly.

      The question is, can it out-pull us? Sine remarked.

      You ought to know, Kass said. You designed and built her.

      Sine made his way forward. It was no longer necessary to

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