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Damned If You Don't, by Gordon Randall Garrett
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Title: Damned If You Don't
Author: Gordon Randall Garrett
Release Date: December 28, 2007 [EBook #24064]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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DAMNED IF YOU DON'T
By RANDALL GARRETT
Illustrated by van Dongen
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Astounding Science Fiction May 1960. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
You can and you can't; You will and you won't. You'll be damn'd if you do; You'll be damn'd if you don't.
--LORENZO DOW; "Definition of Calvinism"
We've all heard of the wonderful invention that the Big Corporation or the Utilities suppressed...? Usually, that Wonderful Invention won't work, actually. But there's another possibility, too....
The workshop-laboratory was a mess.
Sam Bending looked it over silently; his jaw muscles were hard and tense, and his eyes were the same.
To repeat what Sam Bending thought when he saw the junk that had been made of thousands of dollars worth of equi