Wonder of the Worlds by Sesh Heri

Author:Sesh Heri [Heri, Sesh]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fantasy, Satire, 21st Century, Fiction, Science Fiction, v.5, Amazon.com, Retail
ISBN: 9780972747288
Amazon: B0035LD85A
Barnesnoble: B0035LD85A
Goodreads: 1103467
Publisher: Lost Continent Library
Published: 2005-09-08T15:00:00+00:00

Down on the lower deck Tesla explained to Lillie and Houdini how to don the air pressure suits. Tesla said, “Step into the trousers and the attached boots, pull the suit up, slip your arms into the sleeves and then into the gloves attached to the sleeves, pull this little tab up in front, and then pull these two tabs together at the neck ring. This will close the suit up with an airtight seal.” Lillie went to the crew’s quarters to change into her pressure suit. Houdini removed his coat, vest, shoes, trousers, collar, tie, and shirt, and handed each of these in succession to Czito. At last the boy stood there with nothing on but a red flannel undershirt, a pair of red f lannel drawers, and black cotton socks. “Don’t wrinkle the fabric,” Houdini said.

“Don’t wrinkle the—” Czito said indignantly. “There isn’t an inch on this suit without a wrinkle on it!” “Those ain’t wrinkles,” Houdini said, “they’re contours. That suit is just broke in good.”

Czito shook his head and took Houdini’s clothes away. Houdini held out his air pressure suit and stepped into its legs. “This thing is too big for me,” Houdini said.

“It will have to do,” Tesla said, “and it will fill out a bit when it is pressur- ized. Mr. Czito, help Erich with his air tank and gravity generator.” “It’s Houdini now, Mr. Tesla. My name is Houdini.”

“All right,” Tesla said, “Houdini. Mr. Czito, help Houdini with the machin- ery in his knapsack.” Czito came forward with a knapsack containing an air tank and a gravity generator, and strapped it on to Houdini’s back. Lillie came out of the crew’s quarters dressed in her air pressure suit. “Very good,” Tesla said. “Turn around.”

Lillie turned around and Tesla buckled a knapsack containing an air tank and a gravity generator on to her shoulders. “Tighten the belt in front,” Tesla said to Lillie.

Ade said to Houdini, “You put the helmet on this way,” and Ade slipped his glass helmet over his head and twisted its base into the metal neck ring attached to his air pressure suit. There was an audible “click” as the helmet’s edge slipped into a spring-loaded slot that provided a hermetic seal to the whole suit. Houdini slipped his own helmet over his head, twisted it into the neck ring on his suit, and “clicked” it into a locked hermetic seal. “Now you,” Tesla said to Lillie, and he raised her helmet in both his hands, brought it down over her head, and twisted and locked it into the neck ring of her suit. “Now me,” Tesla said, and he put on his own helmet, and then turned on the valve that let the air f low out from the compression tanks in his knapsack and into the interior of his suit. He went over to Lillie and turned on her air

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valve, and then did the same for Ade’s and Houdini’s. He then turned on another switch on the control panel attached to his belt.

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