The Original Illustrated Slan by A.E. van Vogt

Author:A.E. van Vogt [Vogt, A.E. van]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2015-02-20T05:00:00+00:00

Startled into silence, Jommy Cross listened to the utterly mistaken analysis. Dismay grew in him, dismay that had nothing to do with his personal danger. It was—it was the incredible insanity of this slan-versus-slan war. The deadliness of it was almost beyond imagination. Joanna Hillory went on in her vibrant voice, tinged now with triumph:

“It’s good to know for sure what we have so long suspected; and the evidence is almost overwhelming now. We have explored the Moon, Mars, and Venus. We have gone as far afield as the moons of Jupiter; and not once have we seen an alien spaceship or the faintest sign of a snake.

“The conclusion is inescapable. For some reason, perhaps because their revealing tendrils make it necessary for them to be ever on the move, they have never developed the anti-gravity screens that make the rocketship possible. Whatever the reason, the chain of logic points inexorably to the fact that they do lack space travel.”

“You and your logic,” said Jommy Cross, “are beginning to be very tiresome. It seems unbelievable that a slan could be so utterly wrong. For just one second, take a reasonable attitude and assume—just assume—that my story is true.”

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