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    Perfect Control
    Perfect Control
    Perfect Control
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    Perfect Control

    By Mel Hunter and Richard Stockham

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Perfect Control - Mel Hunter

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Perfect Control, by Richard Stockham

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

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      Title: Perfect Control

      Author: Richard Stockham

      Illustrator: Mel Hunter

      Release Date: April 14, 2010 [EBook #31985]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PERFECT CONTROL ***

      Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online

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

      Transcriber's Note:

      This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction January 1955. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      PERFECT CONTROL

      By RICHARD STOCKHAM

      Illustrated by MEL HUNTER

      Why can't you go home again after years in space? There had to be an answer ... could he find it in time, though?

      itting at his desk, Colonel Halter brought the images on the telescreen into focus. Four booster tugs were fastening, like sky-barnacles, onto the hull of the ancient derelict, Alpha.

      He watched as they swung her around, stern down, and sank with her through the blackness, toward the bluish-white, moon-lighted arc of Earth a thousand miles below.

      He pressed a button. The image of tugs and hull faded and the control room of the old ship swam onto the screen.

      Colonel Halter saw the crew, sitting in a half circle, before the control panel.

      The telescreen in the control room of old Alpha was yet dark. The faces watching it held no care lines or laugh lines, only a vague expression of kindness. They could be faces of wax or those of people dying pleasantly.

      Colonel Halter shook his head. Brilliant—the finest space people in the field seventy-five years back—and now he was to get them to come out of that old hull. God almighty, how could you pull people out of an environment they were perfectly adjusted to? Logic? Force? Reason? Humoring? How could you know?

      Talk to them, he told himself. He dreaded it, but the problem had to be faced.

      He flipped a switch on his desk; saw light jump into their screen and his own face take shape there; saw their faces on his own screen, set now, like the faces of stone idols.

      He turned another dial. The picture swung around so that he was looking into their eyes and they into his.

      Halter said, Captain McClelland?

      One of the old men nodded. Yes.

      McClelland was clean-shaven. His uniform, treated against deterioration,

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