This World Must Die!
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"Do you have to be so bloodthirsty?" complained Truesdale.
"I don't want to kill anybody," declared the girl; "maybe we could just disable the cruiser."
"Aw, kill your jets!" Brecken broke in. "I've been waiting for a chance like this for years. Don't get any ideas!"
"But listen!" pleaded Donna. "It's a terrible thing, but if we don't do it, we won't be safe on Mars ourselves; they'll land and set an epidemic loose."
"I'll take my chances with it," said Brecken. "You're supposed to know something about piloting. Now get us on a curve for Mars, an' be snappy about it!"
Donna turned desperately to Phillips.
"Why not look over the ship," the engineer suggested, "before we blast off on half our jets? We can make up our minds when we see what we have for fuel and weapons."
Brecken opened his mouth to object, but was smitten by an unpleasant thought. "Suppose the
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The is an always-fatal plague in the asteroid belt, and a ship full of maddened, infected, asteroiders is heading to Mars to demand freedom (from what, is hard to tell).
This world to itself (the ship) has to be destroyed, but violence has been bred out of people, so the only people to do it are four convicted criminals from Luna Prison who have a history of violence: three men and a wrongly-convicted love interest.
The plot creaks in a few places, the characters fall in love awfully fast, and considering how nonviolent everyone is, there sure are a lot of A-bomb tipped missles for space ships to fire at each other.
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