I Speak for Earth
“It was fifty or sixty feet long and shaped something like a barrel with capped ends. It was colored a plain, rather nondescript coppery brown. But the fury of its landing boiled a square mile of the sea.
That’s it, thought Joe, and glossed the thought for the benefit of the others who had not the same knowledge of engineering techniques. That’s where they’re ahead of us. Old Stormalong will be a quarter-mile long and nearly as much in circumference; that thing over there goes further and faster... and employs more energy to better purpose than a hundred of anything we could design.
The steam off the ocean cleared in a rising breeze. Something happened at one end of the ship–a part of the hull glistened, became translucent and allowed something to pass.
Gyul Kodran? It was the same shifting pattern in the same nonhuman shape. They waited for a clue.
There were less than five hundred people privileged to witness this unique episode in human history. Ranged on the sand at the edge of the bay were Briaros and his staff who had come with him last night, Lagenfeld with the group of technicians and psychologists who had undertaken the personality-transfer, and lastly a guard of honor of UN troops drawn up in two squads, one at either side of the secretary-general’s party.MoreLess
That’s it, thought Joe, and glossed the thought for the benefit of the others who had not the same knowledge of engineering techniques. That’s where they’re ahead of us. Old Stormalong will be a quarter-mile long and nearly as much in circumference; that thing over there goes further and faster... and employs more energy to better purpose than a hundred of anything we could design.
The steam off the ocean cleared in a rising breeze. Something happened at one end of the ship–a part of the hull glistened, became translucent and allowed something to pass.
Gyul Kodran? It was the same shifting pattern in the same nonhuman shape. They waited for a clue.
There were less than five hundred people privileged to witness this unique episode in human history. Ranged on the sand at the edge of the bay were Briaros and his staff who had come with him last night, Lagenfeld with the group of technicians and psychologists who had undertaken the personality-transfer, and lastly a guard of honor of UN troops drawn up in two squads, one at either side of the secretary-general’s party.MoreLess
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