O Master Caliban by Phyllis Gotlieb

Author:Phyllis Gotlieb [Gotlieb, Phyllis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Event Horizon EBooks
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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The factory was in a small valley. Parts of it had been used to grow marsh plants, sections marked off in squares for hydroponic tanks, the flooded bottoms as shallow beds to trace the mutation rates of fry and fingerlings. The ergs had chosen it because it was free of heavy growth; they had only to cut one deep channel at the southernmost point to let all the water out. They kept the growth down by burning and defoliants; the slopes were still faintly marked by plot lines.

The place was a bowl of night, filled with deep rumbling, lit once in a while by sparks from the huge stacks, emblazoned with rust splotches on the slopes of its metal roofs; nothing resisted the rains of Dahlgren’s World very long. Mists hung over it, thickened by smoke and rising in odd shapes from the heat: winds sliced them and rains whipped them down; they regathered endlessly, blackened or shot with fire.

The sun hung over one corner of this valley like a smutted lantern; there were four or five slowly revolving spy-eyes mounted on poles around its rim, mainly to regulate traffic coming and going. The ergs did not expect enemies or attacks. There were no fences.

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