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Oomphel in the Sky, by Henry Beam Piper
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Title: Oomphel in the Sky
Author: Henry Beam Piper
Release Date: February 23, 2007 [EBook #20649]
Language: English
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OOMPHEL ... ... IN THE SKY
By H. BEAM PIPER
Transcriber's Note
This etext was produced from Analog Science Fact--Science Fiction, November 1960. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.
[Illustration]
Since Logic derives from postulates, it never has, and never will, change a postulate. And a religious belief is a system of postulates ... so how can a man fight a native superstition with logic? Or anything else...?
Illustrated by Bernklau
Miles Gilbert watched the landscape slide away below him, its quilt of rounded treetops mottled red and orange in the double sunlight and, in shaded places, with the natural yellow of the vegetation of Kwannon. The aircar began a slow swing to the left, and Gettler Alpha came into view, a monstrous smear of red incandescence with an optical diameter of two feet at arm's length, slightly flattened on the bottom by the