Battle on Mercury by Lester del Rey (as Erik van Lhin)

Author:Lester del Rey (as Erik van Lhin)
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Sci-Fi
Publisher: Holt, Rhinhart and Winston
Published: 2016-10-25T04:00:00+00:00

“All the little demons are out,” he told Dick toward the end of the day, just before Dick prepared to sleep. “And I reckon the little wispies, too. You don’t see the small ones much, unless there’s a touch of storm. They stay way up at the real center of the hotlands. See there—-a little yellower than Johnny? I don’t swear it’s a young one, but I kind of figure I’m right about it.”

“How come they don’t attack us?” Dick wanted to know. He’d been puzzling over that for hours. “You don’t have a full coating of aluminum on your dome here—you have to keep the front and rear clear. And you’ve got electricity in the tractor. I’d think they’d come running for it.”

Charlie chuckled. “Nope, I found out a long time ago that they don’t like some things. One of them’s a real long wave length of radio stuff—about two hundred kilocycles to you—kilocycles, not the megacycles we have; that used to be called high frequency stuff in the old days. So I got me a little transmitter built in. Been trying to get some of the domes to try it for years, but they think I’m crazy. That’s why Johnny stays away from the tank, except when one of the demons is around. Then he decides he likes that better than demons. Don’t think it hurts them—more like a bad smell. Hey, you better get some sleep.”

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