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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK STALEMATE IN SPACE *** |
Stalemate In Space |
By CHARLES L. HARNESS |
Two mighty metal globes clung in a murderous |
death-struggle, lashing out with flames of poison. |
Yet deep in their twisted, radioactive wreckage |
the main battle raged—where a girl swayed |
sensuously before her conqueror's mocking eyes. |
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from |
Planet Stories Summer 1949. |
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that |
the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] |
At first there was only the voice, a monotonous murmur in her ears. |
" |
Die now—die now—die now |
—" |
Evelyn Kane awoke, breathing slowly and painfully. The top of the |
cubicle was bulging inward on her chest, and it seemed likely that a |
rib or two was broken. How long ago? Years? Minutes? She had no way of |
knowing. Her slender right hand found the oxygen valve and turned it. |
For a long while she lay, hurting and breathing helplessly. |
" |
Die now—die now—die now |
—" |
The votron had awakened her with its heart-breaking code message, and |
it was her duty to carry out its command. Nine years after the great |
battle globes had crunched together the mentors had sealed her in this |
tiny cell, dormant, unwaking, to be livened only when it was certain |
her countrymen had either definitely won—or lost. |
The votron's telepathic dirge chronicled the latter fact. She had |
expected nothing else. |
She had only to find the relay beside her cot, press the key that would |
set in motion gigantic prime movers in the heart of the great globe, |
and the conquerors would join the conquered in the wide and nameless |
grave of space. |
But life, now doled out by the second, was too delicious to abandon |
immediately. Her mind, like that of a drowning person, raced hungrily |
over the memories of her past. |
For twenty years, in company with her great father, she had watched |
The Defender |
grow from a vast metal skeleton into a planet-sized |
battle globe. But it had not grown fast enough, for when the Scythian |
globe, |
The Invader |
, sprang out of black space to enslave the budding |
Terran Confederacy, |
The Defender |
was unfinished, half-equipped, and |
undermanned. |
The Terrans could only fight for time and hope for a miracle. |
The Defender |
, commanded by her father, Gordon, Lord Kane, hurled |
itself from its orbit around Procyon and met |
The Invader |
with giant |
fission torpedoes. |
And then, in an intergalactic proton storm beyond the Lesser Magellanic |
Cloud, the globes lost their bearings and collided. Hordes of brute-men |
poured through the crushed outer armor of the stricken |
Defender |
. |
The prone woman stirred uneasily. Here the images became unreal |
and terrible, with the recurrent vision of death. It had taken the |
Scythians nine years to conquer |
The Defender's |
outer shell. Then had |
come that final interview with her father. |
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