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Leigh Brackett was the undisputed Queen of Space Opera and the first women to be nominated for the coveted Hugo Award. She wrote short stories, novels, and scripts for Hollywood. She wrote the first draft of the Empire Strikes Back shortly before her death in 1978.
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Child of the Sun - Leigh Brackett
Child of the Sun
by Leigh Brackett
©2020 Positronic Publishing
Child of the Sun is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, locales or institutions is entirely coincidental.
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Child of the Sun
Far beyond molten Mercury flashed the Patrol-pursued Falcon ....Out to where black Vulcan whirled his hidden orbit, and a flame-auraed last child of Sol played his cosmic game.
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Eric Falken stood utterly still, staring down at his leashed and helpless hands on the controls of the spaceship Falcon .
The red lights on his indicator panel showed Hiltonist ships in a three-dimensional half-moon, above, behind, and below him. Pincer jaws, closing fast.
The animal instinct of escape prodded him, but he couldn’t obey. He had fuel enough for one last burst of speed. But there was no way through that ring of ships. Tractor-beams, criss-crossing between them, would net the Falcon like a fish.
There was no way out ahead, either. Mercury was there, harsh and bitter in the naked blaze of the sun. The ships of Gantry Hilton, President of the Federation of Worlds, inventor of the Psycho-Adjuster, and ruler of men’s souls, were herding him down to a landing at the lonely Spaceguard outpost.
A landing he couldn’t dodge. And then....
For Paul Avery, a choice of death or Happiness. For himself and Sheila Moore, there was no choice. It was death.
The red lights blurred before Falken’s eyes. The throb of the plates under his feet faded into distance. He’d stood at the controls for four chronometer days, ever since the Hiltonists had chased him up from Losangles, back on Earth.
He knew it was because he was exhausted that he couldn’t think, or stop the nightmare of the past days from tramping through his brain, hammering the incessant question at him. How?
How had the Hiltonists traced him back from New York? Paul Avery, the Unregenerate recruit he went to get, had passed a rigid psycho-search—which, incidentally, revealed the finest brain ever to come to the Unregenerate cause. He couldn’t be a spy. And he’d spoken to no one but Falken.
Yet they were traced. Hiltonist Black Guards were busy now, destroying the last avenues of escape from Earth, avenues that he, Falken, had led them through.
But how? He knew he hadn’t given himself away. For thirty years he’d been spiriting Unregenerates away