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Looking For Us, Professor?
"Hmm, yes. I was just cogitating upon the causes of G ALA XY
Science Fiction's phenomenal growth in popularity."
"A n d that needs an explanation, Professor?"
"From a socio-psychological viewpoint, most definitely. To
what do you attribute the constant increase of interest?"
"W ell . . . let's try it this way, Professor. Suppose we ask the
questions and you answer them."
"S o ? A bit unusual, but go right ahead."
"D o you think atomic doom is the only future for mankind?"
"N ot exactly, but the newspapers and the commentators—"
"O f course. Well, we S H O W other possible futures. Do you
believe we will be able to leave the Earth?"
"Eventually, perhaps. But not in our lifetime."
"W e don't agree. Assuming you're right, though, isn't that all
the more reason to want to know what we'll find on other
planets, Professor?"
"I think I see what you mean."
"C an we achieve immortality?"
"Ah. Hum. I've often wondered."
"And travel to different eras in time?"
"That would be exciting."
"And you've been trying to discover why G ALA XY is growing
so popular? Every idea we've mentioned— and a lot more, be­
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live
them!"
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MALCOLM JAMESON
GALAXY Science Fiction Novel #27
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Selected and Republished by
The Galaxy Publishing Corp.
Publishers of
Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine
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GALAXY PUBLISHING CORP.
421 Hudson Street
New York 14, N.Y.
The characters and the incidents in this hook are
entirely, the product o f the author’ s imagination and
have no relation to any person or events in real life.
Copyright 1941 by
Better Publications, Inc. '
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Republished 1956
by
Arrangement with the Author’s Estate
Printed in the United States by
The Guinn Company, Inc., New York 14, N. Y.
CHAPTER I
The Road to Tomorrow
E did not know what had happened, or how, or when.
He only knew he was falling. Instinctively he began
counting. Somewhere above him the ship was falling,
too. Down below, still a long way off, he could see a bed of
search lights, its rays probing the clouds— looking for him,
no doubt.
At the count of six he pulled the cord. Then he felt the
jerk on his harness as the ’chute bellied out. His head ached
fearfully and he realized for the first time he was wounded.
He did not know when he struck the earth or how far he
was dragged across the fields.
The hospital ward was not so bad a place, considering it
was in a prison camp. Only there was never food enough.
It was later, though, that he felt the pinch o f real hunger.
That was after he had been pronounced fit for duty and se n t!
out daily with the other war prisoners, to repair the holes I
made nightly by Britain’s bombers along the main rail­
way line.
“ Serves me right, I guess,” Allan Winchester muttered to
‘ himself as he shouldered his pick and shovel and stumbled
along after the rest. “ I had no business mixing in another
fellow’s war,”
But the guttural curse of a burly guard and the threat
of the ever-ready gunbutt made him change his mind. He
ducked the blow and hastened his stride, but red rage
surged within him.
“ No,” he added, in an inaudible growl, “ it
is
my w ar! It
is everybody’s war who hates cruelty and oppression. I’ll
see it through. Ruthless tyrants shall not rule the earth!”
For a moment Winchester’s thoughts had gone back to the
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