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Matter of Importance, by William Fitzgerald Jenkins
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Title: A Matter of Importance
Author: William Fitzgerald Jenkins
Release Date: November 26, 2007 [EBook #23636]
Language: English
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A MATTER OF IMPORTANCE
BY MURRAY LEINSTER
Illustrated by Bernklau
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Astounding Science Fiction September 1959. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
The importance of a matter is almost entirely a matter of your attitude. And whether you call something "a riot" or "a war" ... well, there is a difference, but what is it?
Nobody ever saw the message-torp. It wasn't to be expected. It came in on a course that extended backward to somewhere near the Rift--where there used to be Huks--and for a very, very long way it had traveled as only message-torps do travel. It hopped half a light-year in overdrive, and came back to normality long enough for its photocells to inspect the star-filled universe all about. Then it hopped another half light-year, and so on. For a l