The Second Space Patrol Megapack by Eando Binder

Author:Eando Binder
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: science fiction, pulp, comics, space opera, sci-fi
ISBN: 9781479403912
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2015-01-28T16:00:00+00:00

INTERPLANETARY COLONY

Lieutenant Jon Jarl had been to all the many worlds of the Solar System, performing his duty as a Space Patrolman, hunting down crime. Now he strode past a row of circular Martian houses. Tall Martians with spindly legs and enormous chests passed him. An eating place advertised Martian foods. A canal wound its way nearby and Martian gondolas floated over the cool waters.

Yet Jon Jarl was not on Mars!

Jon Jarl continued and the scene changed. Now it was swampy and dank, and the strange Venusian floating huts were all over. The Venus Frog People, with seal-like bodies and webbed feet and hands, splashed happily through the mud and pools. Their food consisted of various seaweeds and finny creatures, eaten raw.

Yet Jon Jarl was not on Venus either!

He had strolled through a typical Martian village, and an exact replica of a Venus Swamp Town, yet Jon Jarl was on earth!

This was the famous Interplanetary Colony of Earth. It was a huge area in central North America which had been turned over completely to the peoples of other worlds who wished to live on Earth. The various other peoples had been allowed complete freedom in the past century to live as they wished without interference. They had all quite naturally built their own kind of homes and landscape’s, much like on their native worlds. They ate their own kind of food and used their own kind of money.

Jon went on and came to the Jupiter Colony. The squat, powerful Jovians, looking like overgrown gnomes, waddled past, grunting in their guttural native tongue. They had enormous strength, due to their world’s great gravity, and one Jovian was carrying with ease a load of stone that ten Earthmen could not have lifted.

Further on were the strange two-headed people of Uranus. Both faces smiled a greeting to Jon, and two mouths said hello in friendliness. As the Uranian moved on, his two heads carried on an amiable conversation.

But oddest of all, perhaps, were the Ganymedian Amoeba People. They were huge round blobs of almost shapeless protoplasm. They could roll along like a ball, or form pseudolegs and walk, as they pleased. One of them came by with six pseudo-legs, and waved five protoplasmic arms at Jon, and smiled with a pseudo-face atop it all.

Jon shook his head a bit wryly, and went on. All this was on Earth itself! All kinds of other non-human but intelligent creatures lived here in the Interplanetary Colony. Creatures from Mercury—Saturn—Neptune—Titan—Callisto—and all the other planets and satellites of the sun. And strangely enough, they all lived in perfect harmony. Live and let live was the motto of the place.

But Jon was not just an idle sightseer here. He was on duty. Everywhere, he asked the same question. “Have you seen an Earthman here? A notorious interplanetary jewel-thief, known as ‘Stony’ Slade? I trailed him all the way from Saturn to Earth. And the clues I’ve been able to pick up have led me here to the Interplanetary Colony.”

But always the answer was the same: “No Earthman has been seen here at all.

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