The Spectre General: The Golden Age Science Fiction Classic by Theodore Cogswell

Author:Theodore Cogswell [Cogswell, Theodore]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: science fiction, galactic empire, space opera, sci-fi, classic
ISBN: 9781479408993
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2014-05-12T16:00:00+00:00

“I’m not permitted to give you any information,” said the small man. His speech had an oddly slurred quality to Kurt’s ear.

“Something stinks!” said Kurt.

“It sure does,” said the small man gloomily. “It must be worse for you. I’m used to it.”

Kurt surveyed the cabin with interest. There were a lot of gadgets tucked away here and there that looked familiar to him. They were like the things he had worked on in tech school except that they were cruder and simpler. They looked as if they had been put together by an eight-year-old recruit doing his first trial assembly.

“I’m Kurt Dixon,” he said.

“Ozaki. Pleased to meet you.”

Now they were getting somewhere. “How come you have everything in one room?” Kurt asked. “We always used to keep different things in different shops.”

“No comment,” said Ozaki.

Kurt had a feeling he was butting his head against a stone wall. He decided to make one more try.

“I give up,” he said, wrinkling his nose, “where’d you hide it?”

“Hide what?” asked the little man.

“The fish.”

“No comment.”

“Why not?” asked Kurt.

“Because there isn’t anything that can be done about it,” said Ozaki. “It’s the air recycler. Something’s haywire inside.”

“What’s an air recycler?”

“That square box over your head.”

Kurt looked at it, closed his eyes, and thought for a moment. The thing did look familiar. Suddenly a picture of it popped into his mind. Page 318 in the Manual of Auxiliary Mechanisms.

“It’s fantastic!” he said.

“What is?” said the little man.

“This.” Kurt pointed to the recycler. “I didn’t know they existed in real life. I thought they were just in books. You got a first echelon kit?”

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