It feathered soundlessly and gently toward the tiny world and settled on a rolling green lawn, seeming to sigh as it settled, as the big engines which defied gravity muted into silence, as the metal of the ship relaxed after the Journey. The sigh was echoed in the control room. “Journey’s end.” T...
A chubby four, pushing five, she wore a short polka-dot dress covered with a clean apron bright with little animals and nursery-land people. Her tow-coloured hair was gathered into plaits and tied with shining yellow ribbon. Her little bare feet were thrust into rabbit slippers, pink and floppy e...
Thereafter he had completely immersed himself in his scientific career and research and, so some hinted, had robbed himself of all human emotion. A lie as Maddox well knew, the tragedy had simply driven Manton to become one of the Space Fleet’s greatest scientists, but brilliant as he was, he now...