Acid Bath

By Vaseleos Garson

The starways’ Lone Watcher had expected some odd developments in his singular, nerve-fraught job on the asteroid. But nothing like the weird twenty-one-day liquid test devised by the invading Steel-Blues.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Start Publishing LLC
• Release date: Nov 23, 2016
• ISBN: 9781682995686

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Acid Bath

by Vaseleos Garson

Start Publishing LLC

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First Start Publishing eBook edition July 2015

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Acid Bath

by Vaseleos Garson

The starways’ Lone Watcher had expected some odd developments in his singular, nerve-fraught job on the asteroid. But nothing like the weird twenty-one-day liquid test devised by the invading Steel-Blues.

JON KARYL was bolting in a new baffle plate on the stationary rocket engine. It was a tedious job and took all his concentration. So he wasn’t paying too much attention to what was going on in other parts of the little asteroid.

He didn’t see the peculiar blue space ship, its rockets throttled down, as it drifted to land only a few hundred yards away from his plastic igloo.

Nor did he see the half-dozen steel-blue creatures slide out of the peculiar vessel’s airlock.

It was only as he crawled out of the depths of the rocket power plant that he realized something was wrong.

By then it was almost too late. The six blue figures were only fifty feet away, approaching him at a lope.

Jon

Reviews for Acid Bath

[cheryl_in_cc_nv · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

In case you need another clue to the twist ending, think about this aphorism: One man's trash is another man's treasure...

[pdsa-1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

“The starways' Lone Watcher had expected some odd developments in his singular, nerve-fraught job on the asteroid. But nothing like the weird twenty-one-day liquid test devised by the invading Steel-Blues.”The story was written in 1952 by Vaseleos Garson (a pseudonym of William J. Garson) and is typical of the science fiction written for the teenagers of that era. It contains commonly used elements such as robots, ray-guns, space travel and aliens.