World of the Drone
by Robert Abernathy
World Of The Drone appeared in the January 1955 issue of Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy. Dworn knew that if his machine failed him in battle he would die. For men fought each other viciously, with no bond of brotherhood, in this—World Of The Drone. The beetle woke from a dreamless sleep, yawned, stretched cramped limbs and smiled to himself. In the west the sunset\'s last glow faded. Stars sprang out in the clear desert sky, dimmed only by the white moon that rose full and brilliant above the eastern horizon.