Star Ways by Poul Anderson

Author:Poul Anderson [Anderson, Poul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781433202254
Publisher: Avalon Books
Published: 1956-01-01T23:00:00+00:00

"Sol-:' For an instant her expression softened, the long soot-black lashes dropped and she breathed the word with a caress. Then, scornfully: "What has Sol to offer? What are you doing there but trying smugly to run the universe according to a bunch of-of equations? A theoryl"

'Any culture is based on a theory," he said. "Ours simply

happens to be explicitly formulated."

"There are times when I hate you," she said, and her fists

clenched.

"I'm not trying to talk down to you;' he snapped. "If

I wanted to tell you a soothing fairy tale, yoifd never know

I was doing it. But don't spit on what you can't understand!"

She countered his gaze steadily and then, amazingly, smiled. "All right, I surrender," she laughed. "Let's go for that beer, shall we?"

And I thought I was a good psychologistl Trevelyan reflected wildly.

A siren whooped. Nicki stiffened, listening to the blasts.

"What's that?" he asked.

"Signal," she answered tightly. "Battle stations alert. All hands stand by for byperdrive."

"This close to the planet?"

"It may be urgent." She ran over to the library Fye.

There were many such televisor screens aboard-each apartment had one, as well as public places. They could be tuned to any of the scanners throughout the ship, strategically mounted to give a view of all points where something of general interest might happen. Nicki dialed swiftly past scenes from the airlocks. The Nomad readers crouched by her and Trevelyan looked over their shoulders.

Minutes stumbled bv before the flickering screen steadied on one image. Trevelyan recognized the egress from one of the boathouses. Joachim was just emerging, and his face was grim.

His words roarecl out of'tbe ship's loudspeakers. -Attention, all Peregrinesl This is the captain. We're getting out of here on gravity drive at once. You hear me, engine

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