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Norton, Andre (ed.) - Space Pioneers / Нортон, Андрэ (ред.) - Первопроходцы космоса [1954, EPUB, ENG]

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Andre Norton (ed.) - Space Pioneers

Название: Space Pioneers / Первопроходцы космоса
Год выпуска: 1954
Под редакцией: Norton, Andre / Нортон, Андрэ
Издательство: World Publishing Co.
ISBN: Нет
Формат: EPUB
Качество: OCR (весьма хорошо вычитано)
Язык: английский

Описание:
Антология Андрэ Нортон о космических первопроходцах.
Preface by Andre Norton
The Illusionaries by Eric Frank Russell
Moonwalk / Пешком по Луне by H. B. Fyfe
Trail Blazer by Raymond Z. Gallun
Thou Good and Faithful by John Brunner
The End of the Line / Конец пути by James H. Schmitz
A Pail of Air / Ведро воздуха by Fritz Leiber
The Farthest Horizon by Raymond F. Jones
Asteroid of Fear by Raymond Z. Gallun
Page and Player by Jerome Bixby
Asteroid of Fear
RAYMOND Z. GALLUN

The space ship landed briefly, and John Endlich lifted the huge Asteroids Homesteaders Office box, which contained everything from a prefabricated house to toothbrushes for his family, down from the hold-port without help or visible effort.
In the tiny gravity of the asteroid, Vesta, doing this was no trouble at all. But beyond this point the situation was—bitter.
His two kids, Bubs, seven, and Evelyn, nine—clad in spacesuits that were slightly oversize to allow for the growth of young bodies—were both bawling. He could hear them through his oxygen-helmet radio-phones.
Around him, under the airless sky of space, stretched desolation that he’d of course known about beforehand—but which now had assumed that special and terrible starkness of reality.
At his elbow, his wife, Rose, her heart-shaped face and grey eyes framed by the wide face-window of her armor, was trying desperately to choke back tears, and be brave.
“Remember—we’ve got to make good here, Johnny,” she was saying. “Remember what the Homesteaders Office people told us—that with modern equipment and the right frame of mind, life can be nice out here. It’s worked on other asteroids. What if we are the first farmers to come to Vesta? … Don’t listen to those crazy miners! They’re just kidding us! Don’t listen to them! And don’t, for gosh sakes, get sore …”
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