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The Stoker and the Stars
The Stoker and the StarsEverybody knows him now. Everybody who passed him on the street knows him....
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The Stoker and the Stars
Everybody knows him now. Everybody who passed him on the street knows him. Everybody who went to the same schools, or even to different schools in different towns, knows him now. Ask them. But I knew him. I lived three feet away from him for a month and a half. I shipped with him and called him by his first name. Well ... Well, I think he You know, I think I never did know him, after all. Not well. Not as well as some of those people who're writing the books about him seem to. I couldn't really describe him to you. He had a duffelbag in his hand and a packed airsuit on his back. The skin of his face had been dried out by ship's air, burned by ultraviolet and broiled by infra red. The pupils of his eyes had little cloudy specks in them where the cosmic rays had shot through them. But his eyes were steady and his body was hard. What did he look like? He looked like a man. It was after the war, and we were beaten. There used to be a school of thought among us that deplored our combativeness; before we had ever met any people from off Earth, even, you could hear people saying we were toughest, cruelest life-form in the Universe, unfit to mingle with the gentler wiser races in the stars, and a sure bet to steal their galaxy and corrupt it forever. Where these people got their information, I don't know. ......Buy Now (To Read More)
Product details
Ebook Number: 22967
Author: Budrys, Algis
Release Date: Oct 12, 2007
Format: eBook
Language: English
Contributors
Illustrator: Van Dongen, H. R., 1920-2010
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