H Beam Piper - [Fuzzy Papers 04] by Fuzzy Bones William Tuning (epub)

Author:Fuzzy Bones William Tuning (epub)
Format: epub
Published: 2022-02-21T00:00:00+00:00

Ben Rainsford stormed back and forth in his office, chuffing madly on his pipe. “Why can’t they run this like a proper dig?” he demanded. “Regardless of what they’ve got—or think they’ve got. Archeology is an exact science. You don’t go in and conduct a dig with manipulators and power shovels, for Ghu’s sake!”

Gus Brannhard was excited about exactly nothing. He rested his huge frame in an easy chair. Only his eyes followed Rainsford as he paced. “Be realistic, Ben,” he said. “You know as well as I do that there isn’t a really trained archeologist on the whole planet.”

Rainsford jabbed his index finger toward the ceiling. “It’s an affront to science and the scientific method! That’s what it is!”

“And there isn’t time,” Brannhard added quietly.

“If you don’t have time to do it right the first time,” Rainsford said as he noisily knocked out his pipe in the ashtray, “when will you have time to do it correctly?”

Brannhard chuckled, which made Rainsford even madder. “Be practical, Ben,” he said. “The TFMC helped out the ZNPF when they were short-handed. Then they found this whatsis up in Fuzzy Valley. The Navy became very interested and wanted to know all about it and damned quick, so they butted into the situation. Now, you know as well as I do that when the Navy thinks it’s important to find out something, archeology, or any other science, is going to be sucking hind tit.”

“Oh, Nifflheim with it!” Rainsford said as he hurled himself into the chair behind the desk. “Now then, what the blazes are we going to do about this range war on Delta Continent? Who do we indict and how do we catch them?”

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