The Cat Men of Aemt
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"We have seen no intelligent on this world yet,"" the professor remarked, ""but still there seems to be a manifestation of mind force, thoughts close lo us which are partly veiled." "It grows stronger up here," said 6W-438.
29G-75 bent over the edge of the projecting rampart and looked into the valley-far below. The space ship was many miles down the valley and lost to sight. 119M-5 was first to reach the plateau to which they were climbing and loosed a mental exclamation.
"What is it?" asked the professor, scrambling up beside him and staring at a metal spheroid which glinted hack the rays of the sun.
"Spaceship or aircraft of some kind."
All four were now on the plateau, surprised to find this striking example of civilization on what they had come to consider an uncivilized world.
"Dare we go any closer?" 29G-75 suggested.
"If any intelligent creatures inside had sinister aims against us, they would prob¬ably have executed them already while we stood watching."
Professor Jameson suited this thought with a slow, deliberate approach. As the machine men came nearer, they saw that two metal doors were swung open, as if whoever had left the ship had not returned. A sense of emptiness and loneliness pervaded the exterior of the craft. The four Zoromes stood and peered in through the doorways. Strange mechanisms and strange objects met their inquisitive sight, but they saw nothing living.
"I shall go inside," the professor decided. "Stay out here until we are sure everything is all right."
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The Cat Men of Aemt - Neil R. Jones
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INTRODUCTION
Professor Jameson's death was a quiet and expected one, and the professor had no fear of its coining. But, though he philosophically yielded life's mysterious equation to the inevitable, he drew the line at the dissolution of his Earthly remains. He sought for immunity from the eternal law of dust to dust.
His coffin was the funeral rocket he had built and which his nephew, faithful to Professor Jameson's death-bed instructions, shot into space with radium propulsion. As the professor had planned, his rocket became a satellite of the Earth, a cosmic coffin in the graveyard of space.
Forty million years fled by as his rocket satellite revolved about an aging world, moving ever nearer the sun while all life upon ii gradually passed into eternity.
This was how wanderer in a space ship from a distant star found the Earth. And they also found the funeral rocket still upon us endless orbit. They found the professor's body intact, preserved by the cold and the vacuum of space.
The wandering Zoromes had found semi-immortality through the transposition of their brains into machines. They did not die, though they could be killed by the destruction of the metal cone which housed their organic brains. And, in the shadow of the dying world, they transplanted Professor Jameson's brain to one of their own metal bodies.
The machine men were space wanderers, seeking the unusual and adventurous from system to system. Professor Jameson became one of them, and embarked with them upon their eternal Argosy. He became known as 21MM392, and participated in all of their adventures, as did the other planetarians to whom the Zoromes pave the boon of near-deathlessness
CHAPTER ONE
Abduction
We have seen no intelligent on this world yet,
the professor remarked, but still there seems to be a manifestation of mind force, thoughts close lo us which are partly veiled.
It grows stronger up here,
said 6W-438.
29G-75 bent over the edge of the projecting rampart and looked into the valley-far below. The space ship was many miles down the valley and lost to sight. 119M-5 was first to reach the plateau to which they were climbing and loosed a mental exclamation.
What is it?
asked the professor, scrambling up beside him and staring at a metal spheroid which glinted hack the rays of the sun.
Spaceship or aircraft of some kind.
All four were now on the plateau, surprised to find this striking example of civilization on what they had come to consider an uncivilized world.
Dare we go any closer?
29G-75 suggested.
If any intelligent creatures inside had sinister aims against us, they would probably have executed them already while we stood watching.
Professor Jameson suited this thought with a slow, deliberate approach. As the machine men came nearer, they saw that two metal doors were swung open, as if whoever had left the ship had not returned. A sense of emptiness and loneliness pervaded the exterior of the craft. The four Zoromes stood and peered in through the doorways. Strange mechanisms and strange objects met their inquisitive sight, but they saw nothing living.
I shall go inside,
the professor decided. "Stay out here until we are