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Ullr Uprising, by Henry Beam Piper
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Title: Ullr Uprising
Author: Henry Beam Piper
Release Date: September 25, 2006 [EBook #19370]
Language: English
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This etext was produced from Space Science Fiction, February and March, 1953. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.
ULLR UPRISING
A STORY IN TWO PARTS
[Illustration]
BY H. BEAM PIPER
ILLUSTRATED BY ORBAN
[Illustration]
"The heathen geeks, they wear no breeks," the Terrans sang. But on a crazy world like Ullr, clothes didn't make the fighting man. There both red and yellow meant danger--and blood!
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The big armor-tender vibrated, gently and not unpleasantly, as the contragravity field alternated on and off. Sometimes it rocked slightly, like a boat on the water, and, in the big screen which served in lieu of a window at the front of the control-cabin, the dingy-yellow landscape would seem to tilt a little. The air was faintly yellow, the sky was yellow with a greenish cast, and the clouds were green-g