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    Control Group
    Control Group
    Control Group
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    Control Group

    By Roger D. Aycock

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Control Group - Roger D. Aycock

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Control Group, by Roger Dee

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      Title: Control Group

      Author: Roger Dee

      Release Date: March 29, 2008 [EBook #24949]

      Language: English

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

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      Any problem posed by one group of human beings can be resolved by any other group. That's what the Handbook said. But did that include primitive humans? Or the Bees? Or a ...

      CONTROL GROUP

      By ROGER DEE

      The cool green disk of Alphard Six on the screen was infinitely welcome after the arid desolation and stinking swamplands of the inner planets, an airy jewel of a world that might have been designed specifically for the hard-earned month of rest ahead. Navigator Farrell, youngest and certainly most impulsive of the three-man Terran Reclamations crew, would have set the Marco Four down at once but for the greater caution of Stryker, nominally captain of the group, and of Gibson, engineer, and linguist. Xavier, the ship's little mechanical, had—as was usual and proper—no voice in the matter.

      Reconnaissance spiral first, Arthur, Stryker said firmly. He chuckled at Farrell's instant scowl, his little eyes twinkling and his naked paunch quaking over the belt of his shipboard shorts. "Chapter One, Subsection Five, Paragraph Twenty-seven: No planetfall on an unreclaimed world shall be deemed safe without proper—"

      Farrell, as Stryker had expected, interrupted with characteristic impatience. "Do you sleep with that damned Reclamations Handbook, Lee? Alphard Six isn't an unreclaimed world—it was never colonized before the Hymenop invasion back in 3025, so why should it be inhabited now?"

      Gibson, who for four hours had not looked up from his interminable chess game with Xavier, paused with a beleaguered knight in one blunt brown hand.

      No point in taking chances, Gibson said in his neutral baritone. He shrugged thick bare shoulders, his humorless black-browed face unmoved, when Farrell included him in his scowl. "We're two hundred twenty-six light-years from Sol, at the old limits of Terran expansion, and there's no knowing what we may turn up

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