The Ionian Cycle
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The Ionian Cycle - William Tenn
The Ionian Cycle
by William Tenn
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The Ionian Cycle
By William Tenn
A SPACEWAYS NOVELET
Spaceship Survivors
The tiny lifeboat seemed to hang suspended from its one working rear jet, then it side-slipped and began to spin violently downwards to the sickly orange ground of the planet.
Inside the narrow cabin, Dr. Helena Naxos was hurled away from the patient she was tending and slammed into a solid bulkhead. The shock jolted the breath out of her. She shook her head and grabbed frantically at an overhead support as the cabin tilted again. Jake Donelli glared up from the view-screen where the alien earth expanded at him and yelled across the control table:
Great gravities, Blaine, soft jet! Soft jet before we’re pulped!
The tall, balding archaeologist of what had once been the First Deneb Expedition waved tremulous hands at the switches before him.
Which—which button do you press?
he quavered. I f-forget how y-you soften those forward things.
You don’t press any—oh, wait a minute.
The spaceman tore the restraining straps away and bounded out of his seat. He seized the projecting edges of the table and made his way strainingly around it as the lifeboat spun faster in great swoops.
Dr. Archibald Blaine was squeezed against the back of his chair when Donelli reached him.
I forgot the button,
he mumbled.
No button, doc. I told you. You jerk this toggle—like so. You haul this switch over—like so. Then you turn the little red wheel around twice. Does it. Whew! Now things are smoother!
Donelli let go of the table as the forward softening jets caught on and straightened the vessel into a flat glide. He walked back to the main control bank, followed by Blaine and the woman biologist.
The sea?
Helena Naxos asked at last, lifting her eyes from the view-screen. "That is the sea?"
Nothing else but,
Donelli told her. "We used up all but about a cupful of fuel trying to avoid falling into this system’s sun—if you can call two planets a system! We’re operating the cupful on the one main jet left unfused when the Ionian Pinafore blew up. Now we’ve overshot the continent and riding above the sea without a paddle. Good, huh? What’d he say the sea was made of?"
Dr. Douglas Ibn Yussuf propped himself on his uninjured elbow and called from his bunk:
"According to the spectroscopic tabulations you brought me an hour ago, the seas of this planet are almost pure hydrofluoric acid. There is a good