A Matter of Proportion
A Matter of Proportion
Free DownloadIn order to make a man stop, you must convince him that it's impossible to go on. Some people, though, just can't be convinced.
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forgotten little-shot, name of Edwin Scott. I already knew the surgeons from being a guinea pig on ICEG. Of course, when I sounded them out, they gave me a kindly brush-off: The matter was out of the their hands. However, I knew whose hands it was in. And I waited for my chance--a big job that needed somebody expendable. Then I'd make a deal, writing my own ticket because they'd figure I'd never collect. Did you hear about Operation Seed-corn?"
That was the underground railway that ran thousands of farmers out of occupied territory. Manpower was what finally broke Invader, improbable as it seems. Epidemics, desertions, over-extended lines, thinned that overwhelming combat strength; and every farmer spirited out of their hands equalled ten casualties. I nodded.
"Well, I planned that with myself as director. And sold it to Filipson."
I contemplated him: just a big man in a trench coat and droop-brimmed hat silhouetted against the lamp-lit mist. I said, "You directed Seed-corn out o
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If you're looking to utterly waste several minutes of your time with not reward whatsoever, then this is the story for you. The first part of the story has nothing to do with the second half. There is not point, no conclusion. Truly awful writing.
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An odd short story from 1959. Written by a woman, all the characters are men. There's embedded electronics allowing telepathy with a commando raid against undescribed Invaders (aliens? commies?) with a description of an earlier commando raid, with a brain transplant with . . . .
The story goes a very long way to make a not very profound point.
The story goes a very long way to make a not very profound point.
11/26/2012
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