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    Survival Tactics
    Survival Tactics
    Survival Tactics
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    Survival Tactics

    By Al Sevcik and Irving Novick

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Survival Tactics - Al Sevcik

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      Title: Survival Tactics

      Author: Al Sevcik

      Illustrator: Irving Novick

      Release Date: March 30, 2008 [EBook #24966]

      Language: English

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      SURVIVAL

      TACTICS

      By AL SEVCIK

      ILLUSTRATOR NOVICK

      The robots were built to serve Man; to do his work, see to his comforts, make smooth his way. Then the robots figured out an additional service—putting Man out of his misery.

      There was a sudden crash that hung sharply in the air, as if a tree had been hit by lightning some distance away. Then another. Alan stopped, puzzled. Two more blasts, quickly together, and the sound of a scream faintly.

      Frowning, worrying about the sounds, Alan momentarily forgot to watch his step until his foot suddenly plunged into an ant hill, throwing him to the jungle floor. Damn! He cursed again, for the tenth time, and stood uncertainly in the dimness. From tall, moss-shrouded trees, wrist-thick vines hung quietly, scraping the spongy ground like the tentacles of some monstrous tree-bound octopus. Fitful little plants grew straggly in the shadows of the mossy trunks, forming a dense underbrush that made walking difficult. At midday some few of the blue sun's rays filtered through to the jungle floor, but now, late afternoon on the planet, the shadows were long and gloomy.

      Alan peered around him at the vine-draped shadows, listening to the soft rustlings and faint twig-snappings of life in the jungle. Two short, popping sounds echoed across the stillness, drowned out almost immediately and silenced by an explosive crash. Alan started, Blaster fighting! But it can't be!

      Suddenly anxious, he slashed a hurried X in one of the trees to mark his position then turned to follow a line of similar marks back

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