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Evelyn E. Smith
Evelyn E. Smith (25 July 1922 – 4 July 2000) was an American writer of science fiction and mysteries, as well as a compiler of crossword puzzles.
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Once a Greech - Evelyn E. Smith
ONCE A GREECH
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Evelyn E. Smith
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Once a Greech
ONCE A GREECH
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JUST TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE S. S. Herringbone of the Interstellar Exploration, Examination (and Exploitation) Service was due to start her return journey to Earth, one of her scouts disconcertingly reported the discovery of intelligent life in the Virago System.
Thirteen planets,
Captain Iversen snarled, wishing there were someone on whom he could place the blame for this mischance, and we spend a full year here exploring each one of them with all the resources of Terrestrial science and technology, and what happens? On the nineteenth moon of the eleventh planet, intelligent life is discovered. And who has to discover it? Harkaway, of all people. I thought for sure all the moons were cinders or I would never have sent him out to them just to keep him from getting in my hair.
The boy’s not a bad boy, sir,
the first officer said. Just a thought incompetent, that’s all—which is to be expected if the Service will choose its officers on the basis of written examinations. I’m glad to see him make good.
Iversen would have been glad to see Harkaway make good, too, only such a concept seemed utterly beyond the bounds of possibility. From the moment the young man had first set foot on the S. S. Herringbone, he had seemed unable to make anything but bad. Even in such a conglomeration of fools under Captain Iverson, his idiocy was of outstanding quality.
The captain, however, had not been wholly beyond reproach in this instance, as he himself knew. Pity he had made such an error about the eleventh planet’s moons. It was really such a small mistake. Moons one to eighteen and twenty to forty-six still appeared to be cinders. It was all too easy for the spectroscope to overlook Flimbot, the nineteenth.
But it would be Flimbot which had turned out to be a green and pleasant planet, very similar to Earth. Or so Harkaway reported on the intercom.
And the other forty-five aren’t really moons at all,
he began. They’re—
You can tell me all that when we reach Flimbot,
Iversen interrupted, "which should be in about six hours. Remember, that intercom uses