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Daughters of Doom, by Herbert B. Livingston
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Title: Daughters of Doom
Author: Herbert B. Livingston
Illustrator: Bill Terry
Release Date: April 18, 2008 [EBook #25094]
Language: English
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DAUGHTERS
OF DOOM
By H. B. HICKEY
Deep in space lay a weird and threatening world. And it was there that Ben Sessions found the evil daughters . . .
Beyond Ventura B there was no life; there was nothing but one worn out sun after another, each with its retinue of cold planets and its trail of dark asteroids. At least that was what the books showed, and the books had been written by men who knew their business. Yet, despite the books and the men who had written them, Ben Sessions went past Ventura B, deliberately and all alone and knowing that the odds were against his returning alive.
He went because of a file clerk's error. More correctly, he went as the final result of a chain of events which had begun with the clerk's mistake.
The clerk's name was Gilbert Wayne and he worked at the Las Vegas Interplanetary Port. It was Wayne's job to put through the orders for routine overhaul of