Donald A. Wollheim (ed) by The Hidden Planet

Author:The Hidden Planet
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2011-08-24T23:43:41+00:00

little bag and hauled out the snooty head of another zloaht. "Meet Ichabod."

Jerry gulped. "Well, 111 be—" And suddenly he had a great deal of urgent business.

Ignatz longed for a cigarette, but he snorted sofdy and turned away.

THE LOTUS EATERS

by STANLEY G. WEINBAUM

"WHEWI" WHISTLED "HAM" HAMMOND, staring through the right forward observation port. "What a place for a honeymoon!"

"Then you shouldn't have married a biologist," remarked Mrs. Hammond over his shoulder, but he could see her gray eyes dancing in the glass of the port. "Nor an explorer's daughter," she added. For Pat Hammond, until her marriage to Ham a scant four weeks ago, had been Patricia Burlin-game, daughter of the great Englishman who had won so much of the twilight zone of Venus for Britain, exacdy as Crowly had done for the United States.

"I didn't," observed Ham, "marry a biologist. I married a girl who happened to be interested in biology; that's all. R's one of her few drawbacks."

He cut the blast to the underjets, and the rocket settled down gently on a cushion of flame toward the black landscape below. Slowly, carefully, he dropped the unwieldy mechanism until there was the faintest perceptible jar; then he killed the blast suddenly, the floor beneath them tilted slighdy, and a strange silence fell like a blanket after the cessation of the roaring blast.

"We're here," he announced.

"So we are," agreed Pat. "Where's here?"

"It's a point exactly seventy-five miles east of the Barrier opposite Venoble, in the British Cool Country. To the north is, I suppose, the continuation of the Mountains of Eternity, and to the south is Heaven knows what. And this last applies to the east."

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