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    Criminal Negligence
    Criminal Negligence
    Criminal Negligence
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    Criminal Negligence

    By J. Francis McComas

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Criminal Negligence - J. Francis McComas

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Criminal Negligence, by Jesse Francis McComas

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: Criminal Negligence

      Author: Jesse Francis McComas

      Release Date: January 22, 2008 [EBook #24399]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE ***

      Produced by Greg Weeks, Greg Bergquist and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Astounding Science Fiction June 1955. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note.]

      CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE

      Somebody was going to have to be left behind

      ... and who it would be was perfectly obvious....

      BY J. FRANCIS MCCOMAS

      Illustrated by Freas

      Warden Halloran smiled slightly. You expect to have criminals on Mars, then? he asked. Is that why you want me?

      Of course we don't, sir! snapped the lieutenant general. His name was Knox. We need men of your administrative ability—

      Pardon me, general, Lansing interposed smoothly, I rather think we'd better give the warden a ... a more detailed picture, shall we say? We have been rather abrupt, you know.

      I'd be grateful if you would, Halloran said.

      He watched the lanky civilian as Lansing puffed jerkily on his cigar. A long man, with a shock of black hair tumbling over a high, narrow forehead, Lansing had introduced himself as chairman of the project's coördinating committee ... whatever that was.

      Go ahead, grunted Knox. But make it fast, doctor.

      Lansing smiled at the warden, carefully placed his cigar in the ash tray before him and said, "We've been working on the ships night and day. Both the dust itself and its secondary effects are getter closer to us all the time. We've been so intent on the job—it's really been a race against time!—that only yesterday one of my young men remembered the Mountain State Penitentiary was well within our sphere of control."

      The country—what's left of it—has been split up into regions, the general said. So many ships to each region.

      So, Lansing went on, learning about you meant there was another batch of passengers to round up. And when I was told the warden was yourself—I know something of your career, Mr. Halloran—I was delighted. Frankly, he grinned at Knox, we're long on military and scientific brass and short on people who can manage other people.

      I see. Halloran pressed a buzzer on his desk. I think some of my associates ought to be in on this discussion.

      Discussion? barked Knox. "Is there anything to discuss? We

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