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    The Useless Bugbreeders
    The Useless Bugbreeders
    The Useless Bugbreeders
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    The Useless Bugbreeders

    By James Stamers

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    Famous and Classic Science Fiction Novel

    To The Space Council, Asteroid 4722
    Was Just Another Roadblock In The
    Way Of Interplanetary Traffic. But
    To The Useless Bugbreeders It Was Home!

     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriOnlineShopping.com
    Release dateDec 31, 2019
    ISBN9788835351955
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      The Useless Bugbreeders - James Stamers

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      Title: The Useless Bugbreeders

      Author: James Stamers

      Release Date: December 20, 2019 [EBook #60981]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE USELESS BUGBREEDERS ***

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      THE USELESS BUGBREEDERS

      BY JAMES STAMERS

      TO THE SPACE COUNCIL, ASTEROID 4722

      WAS JUST ANOTHER ROADBLOCK IN THE

      WAY OF INTERPLANETARY TRAFFIC. BUT

      TO THE USELESS BUGBREEDERS IT WAS HOME!

      [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from

      Worlds of If Science Fiction, May 1961.

      Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that

      the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

      The previous case was a Weeper, and he lost. So the Space Zoning Commissioners were damp and irritable before I opened pleadings for my client. I tried not to squelch as I approached the bench.

      Not the Flammables again, Mr. Jones? the fat Commissioner asked nastily, sponging his suit with a sodden handkerchief.

      This was last week, Your Honor.

      The thin dark Commissioner stared pointedly at the charred end of the bench nearest the witness seat.

      Indeed it was, Mr. Jones.

      The middle Commissioner poised his fingers and looked at the court ceiling; moisture gleamed diamond like on his bald head.

      Now let me see, he intoned. Correct me if I err, Mr. Jones, but I seem to observe you have a habit of representing somewhat spectacular aliens. Including, in the past six months alone, the Drillers, Whirling Tombs, Fragile Glasses, Erupters, Vibrational Men, Transparent Women—and of course let us not forget the Flammables.

      "I assure Your Honor, my present clients will be

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