by Various
"Friends," I said, "I have heard the voice of a great countryman of mine, who is dead these countless centuries, and yet who lives today in your hearts. I am proud that the same star gave us birth." It wasn't much of a speech, but they didn't understand it, anyway. Artur translated it for them, and I think he embroidered it somewhat, for the translation took a long time.
"They worship you as the successor to Toma Annerson," whispered Artur as the people filed from the great auditorium. "Your fame here will be second only to His, for you saved, to-day, the people He called His own."
We left just as darkness was falling, and as I shot up to the hovering Ertak, the chant of Artur and his bright-robed fellows was the last sound of Strobus that fell upon my ears. They were intoning the praises of Thomas Anderson, man of Earth.
And so, my good Zenian friends, you learn of the first man to brave the dangers of outer space. He left no classic journal behind him as did Ame Baove, nor did he return to tell of the wonders he had found.
But he did take strong root where he fell in his clumsy craft, and if this record, supported only by the log of the Ertak, needs further proof, some five or six full generations from now Strobus will be close enough for doubting Zenians to visit. And they will find there, I have no least doubt, the enshrined Adventurer, and the memory, not only of Thomas Anderson, but of one, John Hanson, Commander (now retired) of the Special Patrol Service.
Table of Contents
ONCE UPON A PLANET
MR. PRESIDENT
THE FRIGHTENED PLANET
PET FARM
THE PLOTTERS
LOVE STORY
THE TRAP
CLEAN BREAK
THE VARIABLE MAN
UNIFORM OF A MAN
CATEGORY PHOENIX
SKIN GAME
LET THERE BE LIGHT
SUITE MENTALE
THE MEASURE OF A MAN
THE SPHERE OF SLEEP
A THOUGHT FOR TOMORROW
BOOMERANG BULLETS
THE DOOR INTO INFINITY
BEYOND THE THUNDER
FEET OF CLAY
THE UNLEARNED
PROJECT HUSH
TAPE JOCKEY
OOGIE FINDS LOVE
BREEDER REACTION
BROWN JOHN'S BODY
EARTHSMITH
WORLD BEYOND PLUTO
THE HITCH HIKERS
LIFE SENTENCE
THE AMBASSADOR
WAY OF A REBEL
OF TIME AND TEXAS
THY NAME IS WOMAN
THE HELL SHIP
THE MERCENARIES
THE OCTOPUS CYCLE
THE SWORD
CODE THREE
THE COMMON MAN
THE BOOK
PROBABILITY
SUCCESS STORY
THE JUDAS VALLEY
MOON GLOW
WHEN THE MOON TURNED GREEN
THE END OF TIME
PLANET OF THE GODS
THE GOD IN THE BOX
