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More Scientists Do Science in Space (Ed Reads Sci-fi, vol. XI)

Charles V. de Vet

‘The Great Gray Plague’ by Raymond F. Jones https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/28118/pg28118-images.html There is no enemy so hard to fight as a dull gray fog. It's not solid enough to beat, too indefinite to kill, and too omnipresent to escape. ‘The World Mover’ by George O. Smith https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70824/pg70824-images.html  George O. Smith collided worlds of the multiverse in this classic tale. ‘The Avenger’ by Stuart Fleming https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/62619/pg62619-images.html Karson was creating a superman to fight the weird super-monsters who had invaded Earth. But he was forgetting one tiny thing—like calls to like. ‘Gone Fishing’ by James H. Schmitz https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/30140/pg30140-images.html There is no predictable correlation between intelligence and ethics, nor is ruthlessness necessarily an evil thing. And there is nothing like enforced, uninterrupted contemplation to learn to distinguish one from another.... ‘Bramble Bush’ by Alan E. Nourse https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/60291/pg60291-images.html There was a man in our town, and he was wondrous wise; He jumped into a bramble bush and scratched out both his eyes. And when he saw what he had done, with all his might and main He jumped into another bush and scratched them in again. MOTHER GOOSE ‘The Laboratorians’ by Edward Peattie https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59267/pg59267-images.html Playing "Napoleon" can get to be a habit, especially when a man is devoted to pure science. Which was Dr. Whitemarsh's devotion—until Dr. Sally Chester came along! ‘Growing Up on Big Muddy’ by Charles V de Vet https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/51398/pg51398-images.html Well, naturally Kaiser would transmit baby talk messages to his mother ship! He was— ‘John Holder’s Weapon’ by Robert Moore Williams https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/65350/pg65350-images.html Holder hated his Communist captors so much he wished them out of existence. Impossible, of course—and yet they vanished before his eyes.... ‘The Wellsprings of Space’ by Albert Teichner https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73226/pg73226-images.html Like oases in the desert, they were spaced through the universe to replenish the electron-thirst of the giant ships. But Old Huddleston had seen the problem: What kind of currency serves to buy matter from ...