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    The Pygmy Planet
    The Pygmy Planet
    The Pygmy Planet
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    The Pygmy Planet

    By Jack Williamson

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJul 1, 2010
    The Pygmy Planet
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    Jack Williamson

    Jack Williamson published his first short story in 1928, and he's been producing entertaining, thought-provoking science fiction ever since. He is the author of Terraforming Earth. The second person named Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America--the first was Robert A. Heinlein--Williamson has always been in the forefront of the field, being the first to write fiction about genetic engineering (he invented the term), anti-matter, and other cutting-edge science. A renaissance man, Williamson is a master of fantasy and horror as well as science fiction. He lives in Portales, New Mexico.

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      The Pygmy Planet - Jack Williamson

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Pygmy Planet, by John Stewart Williamson

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

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      Title: The Pygmy Planet

      Author: John Stewart Williamson

      Release Date: June 20, 2009 [EBook #29177]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PYGMY PLANET ***

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      Transcriber's Note:

      This etext was produced from Astounding Stories February 1932. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      The Pygmy Planet

      By Jack Williamson

      Down into the infinitely small goes Larry on his mission to the Pygmy Planet.

      "Nothing ever happens to me! Larry Manahan grumbled under his breath, sitting behind his desk at the advertising agency which employed his services in return for the consideration of fifty a week. All the adventure I know is what I see in the movies, or read about in magazines. What wouldn't I give for a slice of real life!"

      It paused, seeming to regard them with malevolent eyes.

      Unconsciously, he tensed the muscles of his six feet of lean, hard body. His crisp, flame-colored hair seemed to bristle; his blue eyes blazed. He clenched a brown hammer of a fist.

      Larry felt himself an energetic, red-blooded square peg, badly afflicted with the urge for adventure, miserably wedged in a round hole. It is one of the misfortunes of our civilization that a young man who, for example, might have been an excellent pirate a couple of centuries ago, must be kept chained to a desk. And that seemed to be Larry's fate.

      Things happen to other people, he muttered. Why couldn't an adventure come to me?

      He sat, staring wistfully at a picture of a majestic mountain landscape, soon to be used in the advertising of a railway company whose publicity was handled by his agency, when the jangle of the telephone roused him with a start.

      Oh, Larry— came a breathless, quivering voice.

      Then, with a click, the connection was broken.

      The voice had been feminine and had carried a familiar ring. Larry tried to place it, as he listened at the receiver and attempted to get the broken connection restored.

      Your party hung up, and won't answer, the operator informed him.

      He replaced the receiver on the hook, still seeking to follow the thin thread of memory given him by the familiar note in that eager excited voice. If only the girl had spoken a few more words!

      Then it came to him.

      Agnes Sterling! he exclaimed aloud.

      Agnes Sterling was a slender, elfish, dark-haired girl—lovely, he had thought her, on the occasions of their few brief meetings. Larry knew her as the secretary and laboratory assistant of Dr. Travis Whiting, a retired college professor known for his work on the structure of the atom. Larry had called at the home-laboratory of the savant, months before, to check certain statistics to be used for advertising purposes and had met the girl there. Only a few times since had he seen her.

      Now she had called him in a voice that fairly trembled with excitement—and, he thought, dread! And she had been interrupted before she had time to give him any message.

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