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    Wreckers of the Star Patrol and Other Tales
    Wreckers of the Star Patrol and Other Tales
    Wreckers of the Star Patrol and Other Tales
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    Wreckers of the Star Patrol and Other Tales

    By Malcolm Jameson

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    Malcolm Jameson was an American Golden Age science fiction author who began writing only seven years before his death. Drawing from his experiences of navy and warfare he gave a personal touch to all of his stories. He is now chiefly remembered for his Captain Bullard stories which chronicles the journey of a young officer into a fleet admiral of space ship and to most critics seem like a precursor of the modern day space exploration series like Star Trek. „Wreckers of the Star Patrol” gathers together four classic science fiction novelettes that have not appeared in print anywhere for almost a half century. It includes: „Sorcerer’s Apprentice”, „Tricky Tonnage”, „Children of the ’Betsy B’”. Fans of Jameson’s Bullard tales will love the short novel of space adventure, „Wreckers of the Star Patrol”.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKtoczyta.pl
    Release dateAug 7, 2018
    ISBN9788381624909
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      Wreckers of the Star Patrol and Other Tales - Malcolm Jameson

      Malcolm Jameson

      Wreckers of the Star Patrol and Other Tales

      Warsaw 2018

      Contents

      Venus—World Of Slavery!

      Promotion To—Sabotage!

      Cold-World Conquest

      Fugitive From The Slave-World

      Two Must Die!

      CHAPTER I

      VENUS–WORLD OF SLAVERY!

      Why should I hire you? bellowed Captain Fennery, bunching his shaggy eyebrows into a heavy scowl. "We want no namby-pamby sissies in the Hyperion!" Bob Hartwell merely flushed and stood a little straighter. If his need had not been so great, his answer to that would have been a straight right to the jaw. Moreover, he had just told the man why he was there–of his having been in command of the neat packet, Mary Sue, of the Venus-Tellurian Line, and how that company had blown up and left him stranded on Venus.

      But he restrained himself. Distasteful as working for Stellar Transport was, it was preferable to remaining in Venusport, broke and on the beach. An epidemic of paludal fever was sweeping the planet, and the crimps who supplied the swamp plantations with cheap labor were taking a heavy nightly toll. He must get off Venus at any cost.

      There was an unexpected diversion, The Hyperion’s second mate, a cadaverous individual of sour and spiteful mien, chose the moment to pluck his skipper’s sleeve. Then he leaned over and whispered slyly in his ear. The captain shrugged his shoulders, but the mate kept on talking, smiling crookedly as he did. Presently Fennery lifted his eyes and fixed them on the young man before him with some glint of growing interest.

      Umph, may be so, he grunted, pushing the mate away. I’ll think on the matter. Then, regarding Hartwell with a curiously disturbing air of hard appraisal, he said to him, Come back tomorrow with your duds and papers. I may be able to use you as a first after all.

      Thanks, said Hartwell briefly, and strode out of the ship.

      The Stellar outfit had a bad reputation, but it was his only means of escaping the plague or slavery. He would gladly have shipped as quartermaster –or even an ALB–to get to another planet. To go as first mate was something he had not had the optimism to hope for.

      So he walked with a lighter heart away from the rusty and battered old tub that lay in her launching skids, and crossed the saggy sky port to the portmaster’s office where he had left his master’s certificate and his dunnage.

      You’re crazy–stark, raving crazy, snorted that official, a grizzled veteran of the spaceways whom Hartwell had known for a long time. The Stellar is a gyp gang and always will be. You’d better chance the fever and the swamp crimps and wait for something safer. I never knew ‘em to hire a decent man except to use him as a goat. You may come out of it with your life, but you can bet your last button that you won’t come out of it with your reputation.

      I can take care of myself, said Bob Hartwell a little stiffly. He knew that every word his old friend had said was gospel, but then...

      "Have you looked over that Hyperion? stormed the portmaster. She’s hung together with paper clips, sealing wax and baling wire! The underwriters’ inspector just certified her for the voyage to Mars, but I’m thinking he’s the richer man today on that account–not that his employers know it."

      I’ve looked at her, said Hartwell, still defensive. "Sure, she’s no yacht. But if she stays together long enough for me to get to Mars, that’s good enough for me.’

      But the chow, man! exploded the other. "It’s condemned Patrol stores. Even the officers have to pick the weevils out. And speaking of officers, that Fennery and his mate Quorquel are a disgrace to the skylanes. Fennery is a bulldozing old sundowner and Quorquel’s a slimy, conniving trickster. The only

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