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    Atom Drive

    By Charles Louis Fontenay

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    It was a race between the tortoise and the hare. But this hare was using some dirty tricks to make sure the ending would be different....
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStart Classics
    Release dateFeb 13, 2015
    ISBN9781633559035
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      Atom Drive - Charles Louis Fontenay

      ATOM DRIVE

      BY CHARLES LOUIS FONTENAY

      Start Publishing LLC

      Copyright © 2012 by Start Publishing LLC

      All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.

      First Start Publishing eBook edition October 2012

      Start Publishing is a registered trademark of Start Publishing LLC

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

      ISBN 978-1-63355-903-5

      It was a race between the tortoise and the hare. But this hare was using some dirty tricks to make sure the ending would be different....

      The two spaceship crews were friendly enemies, sitting across the table from each other for their last meal before blastoff. Outside the ports, the sky was nothing but light-streaked blackness, punctured periodically by Earth glare, for Space Station 2 whirled swiftly on its axis, creating an artificial gravity.

      Jonner, I figured you the last man ever to desert the rockets for a hot-rod tow-job, chided Russo Baat, captain of the Mars Corporation's gleaming new freighter, Marsward XVIII. Baat was fat and red-faced, and one of the shrewdest space captains in the business.

      Jonner Jons, at the other end of the table, inclined his grizzled head and smiled.

      Times change, Russo, he answered quietly. Even the Mars Corporation can't stop that.

      Is it true that you're pulling five thousand tons of cargo, Captain? asked one of the crewmen of the Marsward XVIII.

      Something like that, agreed Jonner, and his smile broadened. And I have only about twice the fuel supply you carry for a 100-ton payload.

      The communicator above them squawked and blared:

      Captain Jons and Captain Baat of Martian competition run, please report to control for final briefing.

      I knew it! grumbled Baat, getting heavily and reluctantly to his feet. I haven't gotten to finish a meal on this blasted merry-go-round yet.

      In the space station's control section, Commander Ortega of the Space Control Commission, an ascetic officer in plain blues, looked them up and down

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