Ellison Wonderland
“Absolutely sick to my gut!”
“Sick? Why you sleazy crumb, I ought to break you in half! Who the hell do you think you’re — ”
“All right! Now! That’s it from the both of you. I’ve got enough on my hands now with just getting there and back — I said knock it off, Kradter — just getting there and back, and I’ve heard enough swill from both of you on this trip! So kill it before I take a spanner to your heads. Read me?”
There were three of them riding the flame to the stars. Three on a Catalog Ship sent to chart the planets of unknown stars, and to take brief studies of the worlds themselves. They were three months out, on a jump between their last world — an ivy–covered ball of green they had named Garbo because it was the single planet of its star — and their next one, which had no name. Nor chart position; nor star whose light had reached the Earth as yet. But there was another island of star clusters across this immensity of black between galaxies, and as soon as they had h...opped it through Inverspace, they would find yet another shining light to draw them on.MoreLess
“Sick? Why you sleazy crumb, I ought to break you in half! Who the hell do you think you’re — ”
“All right! Now! That’s it from the both of you. I’ve got enough on my hands now with just getting there and back — I said knock it off, Kradter — just getting there and back, and I’ve heard enough swill from both of you on this trip! So kill it before I take a spanner to your heads. Read me?”
There were three of them riding the flame to the stars. Three on a Catalog Ship sent to chart the planets of unknown stars, and to take brief studies of the worlds themselves. They were three months out, on a jump between their last world — an ivy–covered ball of green they had named Garbo because it was the single planet of its star — and their next one, which had no name. Nor chart position; nor star whose light had reached the Earth as yet. But there was another island of star clusters across this immensity of black between galaxies, and as soon as they had h...opped it through Inverspace, they would find yet another shining light to draw them on.MoreLess
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