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Alarm Clock, by Everett B. Cole, Illustrated
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Title: Alarm Clock
Author: Everett B. Cole
Release Date: January 6, 2008 [eBook #24180]
Language: English
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This e-text was produced from Astounding Science Fiction, September, 1960. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.
ALARM CLOCK
by
EVERETT B. COLE
Illustrated by Van Dongen
Most useful high explosives, like ammonium nitrate, are enormously violent ... once they're triggered. But they will remain seemingly inert when beaten, burned, variously punished--until the particular shock required comes along....
Many years had passed since the original country rock had been broken, cut and se