Time Out For Tomorrow by Richard Wilson

Author:Richard Wilson [Wilson, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sci Fi & Fantasy
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 1962-01-24T00:00:00+00:00

Floyd, remembering the doctor, thought of other Earthly ties. The panic in Florida, and particularly in their town of Cocoa, where they had been staying on vacation, when the first bombs burst at nearby Cape Canaveral. Naturally the Cape and Vandenberg Air Force Base in California would be among the prime targets.

His wife had been out on the beach, waiting for a scheduled launching. She’d always been a rocket buff and finally it killed her.

Floyd had been asleep in the motel, on his side of the double bed, with Vic on the cot. Vic, aged not-quite-two, had slept through the whole thing. Floyd picked him up and bundled the blanket around him and ran out into the night.

“They’re all dead on the beach,” somebody had yelled, and Floyd got into his car and went the other way, toward the missile test centre, thinking of the reinforced concrete bunkers which might provide protection for his son and himself against the attack.

No one was at the gate and he sped through, heading for the gantries silhouetted against the blazing bursts.

Project Magellan had saved them. Magellan was the two-man capsule whose launching his wife had been waiting to see. The two astronauts who had volunteered for the mission were rushed to fire control and the launch was scrubbed.

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