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Sand Doom, by William Fitzgerald Jenkins
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Title: Sand Doom
Author: William Fitzgerald Jenkins
Release Date: August 31, 2007 [EBook #22467]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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[Illustration: Cover Page]
[Illustration] SAND DOOM
BY MURRAY LEINSTER
Illustrated by Freas
+--------------------------------------------------------------+ | The problem was as neat a circle as one could ask for; | | without repair parts, they couldn't bring in the ship that | | carried the repair parts! | +--------------------------------------------------------------+
Bordman knew there was something wrong when the throbbing, acutely uncomfortable vibration of rocket blasts shook the ship. Rockets were strictly emergency devices, these days, so when they were used there was obviously an emergency.
He sat still. He had been reading, in the passenger lounge of the Warlock--a very small lounge indeed--but as a senior Colonial Survey officer he was well-traveled enough to know when things did not go right. He looked up from the bookscreen, waiting. Nobody came to explain the eccentricity of a spaceship using rockets. It wou