John Brunner by Listen! The Stars!

Author:Listen! The Stars! [Stars!, Listen! The]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2011-08-26T14:17:12+00:00

VIII

Slowly Dan looked at those near him. He remembered clearly when he had last seen so many ghastly-white faces at once: at the scene of a collision between a bus and a station wagon with five kids in the back. Four of the kids were killed. And it wasn't just the paleness that was the same. There was the same expression, too—the look of people reminded in a flash that they were involved in a dangerous pursuit, then expressway driving at ninety miles an hour, now stardropping.

He had a brief insane vision of young Lilith's face, and the idea crossed his mind that perhaps he had become a bearer of disaster, being next to two people who vanished in the same day.

But he realized quickly that that was a by-product of the dying anger which still muddled his thoughts, turned against himself by the shock and transmuted into self-disgust.

"Someone tell his wife?" A nervous half-question from a man Dan hadn't been presented to, met by a nod from Watson.

"I'll see to that, Eddie. Don't worry."

People began to turn away, making towards the way out. Surely that couldn't be the end of it—the snuffing out of a

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