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The Bluff of the Hawk - Anthony Gilmore
THE BLUFF OF THE HAWK
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Anthony Gilmore
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The Bluff of the Hawk
By
Anthony Gilmore
The Bluff of the Hawk
Published by Chasma Press
New York City, NY
First published circa 1981
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A trick? Carse was famed for them. A trap? But how?
Had not old John Sewell, the historian, recognized Hawk Carse for what he was—a creator of new space-frontiers, pioneer of vast territories for commerce, molder of history through his long feud with the powerful Eurasian scientist, Ku Sui—the adventurer would doubtless have passed into oblivion like other long-forgotten spacemen. We have Sewell’s industry to thank for our basic knowledge of Carse. His Space-Frontiers of the Last Century
is a thorough work and the accepted standard, but even it had of necessity to be compressed, and many meaty episodes of the Hawk’s life go almost unmentioned. For instance, Sewell gives a rough synopsis of The Affair of the Brains,
but dismisses its aftermath entirely, in the following fashion (Vol. II, pp. 250-251):
See the March, 1932, Issue of Astounding Stories.
Sewell’s ruthless surgery is most evident in that last paragraph. Of course his telescoping of the events was due to limited space; but he did wish to draw a full-length, character-revealing portrait of Hawk Carse, and with ... reached Satellite III safely, where, after a few minor adventures, Captain Carse ...
learned old John Sewell slid over one of his greatest opportunities.
The resourcefulness of Hawk Carse! In these few minor adventures
he had but one weapon with which to joust against overwhelming odds on an apparently hopeless quest. This weapon was a space-suit—nothing more—yet so brilliantly and daringly did he wield its unique advantages that he penetrated seemingly impregnable barriers and achieved alone what another man would have required the ray-batteries of a space-fleet to do.
But here is the story, heard first from Friday’s lips and told and re-told down through the years on the lonely ranches of the outlying planets, of that one dark, savage night on Satellite III and of the indomitable man who winged his lone way through it. Hawk Carse! Old adventurer! Rise from your unknown star-girdled grave and live again!
Thirty thousand miles was the gap between Dr. Ku Sui’s asteroid and Satellite III, the nearest haven.