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Cyril M. Kornbluth. King Cole of Pluto
King Cole of Pluto
Table of Contents
CHAPTER ONE. Leigh Salvage, Incorporated
CHAPTER TWO. An Unexpected Rival
CHAPTER THREE. Crime in Space
CHAPTER FOUR. Pursuit Between the Planets
CHAPTER FIVE. Contact Off Pluto
CHAPTER SIX. Return From Battle
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Cyril M. Kornbluth
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Jerry wandered at random through the ship. It had carried some passengers. One of the cabin doors was open, and the figure of an old woman, face mercifully down, was sprawled over the threshold. She had heard the alarm in her little room as the air drained out of the ship; unthinkingly she had flung open her door—gasped for breath when there was nothing to breathe—and fallen as she was.
He picked up her tiny frame, and carried it to the stern of the ship. He wondered who she was—why she was returning to Earth from Venus at her age. Perhaps she had wanted to pass her last years among the green and brown fields and again see a mountain. Perhaps—he thought he knew how she felt, for he, too, had once been homesick.
