The Stars, My Brothers by Edmond Hamilton
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Title: The Stars, My Brothers
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Illustrator: Virgil Finlay
Release Date: March 18, 2008 [EBook #24870]
Language: English
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THE STARS, MY BROTHERS
By EDMOND HAMILTON
Illustrated by FINLAY
He was afraid--not of the present or the future, but of the past. He was afraid of the thing tagged Reed Kieran, that stiff blind voiceless thing wheeling its slow orbit around the Moon, companion to dead worlds and silent space.
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Something tiny went wrong, but no one ever knew whether it was in an electric relay or in the brain of the pilot.
The pilot was Lieutenant Charles Wandek, UNRC, home address: 1677 Anstey Avenue, Detroit. He did not survive the crash of his ferry into Wheel Five. Neither did his three passengers, a young French astrophysicist, an East Indian expert on magnetic fields, and a forty-year-old man from Philadelphia who was coming out to replace a pump technician.
Someone else who did not survive was Reed Kieran, the only man in Wheel Five itself to lose his