Acid Bath: To Earth Ever Triumphant

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. One of the original sci-fi stories anticipating discovery of space travel on planet Earth.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Interactive Media
• Release date: Jun 17, 2010
• ISBN: 9780956116598

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Vaseleos Garson

Acid Bath

Fantastica

LONDON ∙ NEW YORK ∙ TORONTO ∙ SAO PAULO ∙ MOSCOW

PARIS ∙ MADRID ∙ BERLIN ∙ ROME ∙ MEXICO CITY ∙ MUMBAI ∙ SEOUL ∙ DOHA

TOKYO ∙ SYDNEY ∙ CAPE TOWN ∙ AUCKLAND ∙ BEIJING

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Contents

THE STEEL-BLUES

OUTSIDE SOLAR SYSTEM

SOLARIANS AND EXTRATERESTRIALS

EXAMINATION ROOM

YELLOW LIQUID

THE HEMLOCK

SP SHIP

THE 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 Karyl took one look and went bounding over

Reviews for Acid Bath

[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.

[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...