1
Scrimshaw, by William Fitzgerald Jenkins
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Scrimshaw, by William Fitzgerald Jenkins This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
Title: Scrimshaw
Author: William Fitzgerald Jenkins
Illustrator: Kelly Freas
Release Date: December 10, 2007 [EBook #23791]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SCRIMSHAW ***
Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Transcriber's Note:
This etext was produced from Astounding Science Fiction September 1955. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and typographical errors have been corrected without note. Subscript characters are shown within {braces}.
[Illustration]
SCRIMSHAW
The old man just wanted to get back his memory--and the methods he used were gently hellish, from the viewpoint of the others....
BY MURRAY LEINSTER
Illustrated by Freas
Pop Young was the one known man who could stand life on the surface of the Moon's far side, and, therefore, he occupied the shack on the Big Crack's edge, above the mining colony there. Some people said that no normal man could do it, and mentioned the scar of a ghastly head-wound to explain his ability. One man partly guessed the secret, but only partly. His name was Sattell