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    The Hate Disease
    The Hate Disease
    The Hate Disease
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    The Hate Disease

    By John Schoenherr and Murray Leinster

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013

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      The Hate Disease - John Schoenherr

      Project Gutenberg's The Hate Disease, by William Fitzgerald Jenkins

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      Title: The Hate Disease

      Author: William Fitzgerald Jenkins

      Illustrator: John Schoenherr

      Release Date: December 31, 2009 [EBook #30815]

      Language: English

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      This etext was produced from Analog Science Fact & Fiction August 1963. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      THE HATE DISEASE

      The Med Service people hit strange problems as routine: if they weren't weirdos, they weren't tough enough to merit Med Service attention. Now the essence of a weird problem is that it involves a factor nobody ever thought of before ... or the absence of one nobody ever missed ...

      by MURRAY LEINSTER

      ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN SCHOENHERR

      I

      The Med Ship Esclipus Twenty rode in overdrive while her ship's company drank coffee. Calhoun sipped at a full cup of strong brew, while Murgatroyd the tormal drank from the tiny mug suited to his small, furry paws. The astrogation unit showed the percentage of this overdrive hop covered up to now, and the needle was almost around to the stop pin.

      There'd been a warning gong an hour ago, notifying that the end of overdrive journeying approached. Hence the coffee. When breakout came, the overdrive field must collapse and the Duhanne cells down near the small ship's keel absorb the energy which maintained it. Then Esclipus Twenty would appear in the normal universe of suns and stars with the abruptness of an explosion. She should be somewhere near the sun Tallien. She should then swim toward that sol-type sun and approach Tallien's third planet out at the less-than-light-speed rate necessary for solar-system travel. And presently she should signal down to ground and Calhoun set about the purpose of his three-week journey in overdrive.

      His purpose was a routine checkup on public health on Tallien Three. Calhoun had lately completed five such planetary visits, with from one to three weeks of overdrive travel between each pair. When he left Tallien Three he'd head back to Sector Headquarters for more orders about the work of the Interstellar Medical Service.

      Murgatroyd zestfully licked his empty cup to get the last least drop of coffee. He said hopefully:

      "Chee?" He wanted more.

      I'm afraid, said Calhoun, that you're a sybarite, Murgatroyd. This impassioned desire of yours for coffee disturbs me.

      "Chee!" said Murgatroyd, with decision.

      It's become a habit, Calhoun told him severely. You should taper off. Remember, when anything in your environment becomes a normal part of your environment, it becomes a necessity. Coffee should be a luxury, to be savored as such, instead of something you expect and resent being deprived of.

      Murgatroyd said impatiently:

      "Chee-chee!"

      All right, then, said Calhoun, if you're going to be emotional about it! Pass your cup.

      He reached out and Murgatroyd put the tiny object in his hand. He refilled it and passed it back.

      But watch yourself, he advised. We're landing on Tallien Three. It's just been transferred to us from another sector. It's been neglected. There's been no Med Service inspection for years. There could be misunderstandings.

      Murgatroyd said, "Chee!" and squatted down to drink.

      Calhoun looked at a clock and opened his mouth to speak again, when a taped voice said abruptly:

      "When the gong sounds, breakout will be five seconds off."

      There was a steady, monotonous tick, tock, tick, tock, like a metronome. Calhoun got up and made a casual examination of the ship's instruments. He turned on the vision screens. They were useless in overdrive, of course, Now they were ready to inform him about the normal cosmos as soon as the ship returned to it. He put away the coffee things. Murgatroyd was reluctant to give up his mug until the last possible lick. Then he sat back and elaborately cleaned his whiskers.

      Calhoun sat down in the control chair and waited.

      "Bong! said the loud-speaker, and Murgatroyd scuttled under a chair. He held on with all four paws and his furry tail. The speaker said, Breakout in five seconds ... four ... three ... two ... one ..."

      There was a sensation as if all the universe had turned itself inside out, and Calhoun's stomach tried to follow its example. He gulped, and the feeling ended, and the vision screens came alight. Then there were ten thousand myriads of stars, and a sun flaming balefully ahead, and certain very bright objects nearby. They would be planets, and one of them showed as a crescent.

      Calhoun checked the solar spectrum as a matter of course. This was the sun Tallien. He checked the brighter specks in view. Three were planets and one a remote brilliant star. The crescent was Tallien Three, third out from its sun and the Med Ship's immediate destination. It was a very good breakout; too good to be anything but luck. Calhoun swung the ship for the crescent planet. He matter-of-factly checked the usual items. He was going in at a high angle to the ecliptic, so meteors and bits of stray celestial trash weren't likely to be bothersome. He made other notes, to kill time.

      He reread the data sheets on the planet. It had been colonized three hundred years before. There'd been trouble establishing a human-use ecological system on the planet because the native plants and animals were totally useless to humankind. Native timber could be used in building, but only after drying-out for a period of months. When growing or green it was as much water-saturated as a sponge. There had never been a forest fire here, not even caused by lightning!

      There were other oddities. The aboriginal microorganisms here did not attack wastes of introduced terrestrial types. It had been necessary to introduce scavenger organisms from elsewhere. This and

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