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    The Good Neighbors
    The Good Neighbors
    The Good Neighbors
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    The Good Neighbors

    By Edgar Pangborn

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateSep 1, 2011
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      The Good Neighbors - Edgar Pangborn

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Good Neighbors, by Edgar Pangborn

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

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      Title: The Good Neighbors

      Author: Edgar Pangborn

      Release Date: September 5, 2008 [EBook #26536]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GOOD NEIGHBORS ***

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      Transcriber’s note:

      This story was published in Galaxy magazine, June 1960. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      74 By EDGAR PANGBORN

      The

      Good

      Neighbors

      You can’t blame an alien for a little inconvenience—as long as he makes up for it!

      Illustrated by WOOD

      THE SHIP was sighted a few times, briefly and without a good fix. It was spherical, the estimated diameter about twenty-seven miles, and was in an orbit approximately 3400 miles from the surface of the Earth. No one observed the escape from it.

      75 The ship itself occasioned some excitement, but back there at the tattered end of the 20th century, what was one visiting spaceship more or less? Others had appeared before, and gone away discouraged—or just not bothering. 3-dimensional TV was coming out of the experimental stage. Soon anyone could have Dora the Doll or the Grandson of Tarzan

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