This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.
| identifier | question |
|---|---|
| 23509 | Could it be possible that he was in time? |
| 23509 | Did the monster understand his intent? |
| 23509 | How was he to escape from the cave? |
| 23509 | Shall we beat it or stay and try to check this out?" |
| 23509 | Still remained the question: why could they want to lure him into that stinking pool of acid? |
| 23509 | They might have been removed for any of a hundred reasons-- but why here? |
| 23509 | Was it stirring in its shell? |
| 23509 | What machines could have done this work without leaving their own traces? |
| 23509 | What was that material? |
| 23509 | Why had n''t he recognized the greasy, quartz- like material before? |
| 51240 | At the thought of dying too? |
| 51240 | But I''m not cured? |
| 51240 | Feeling all right, dear? |
| 51240 | Out there? |
| 51240 | You mean that I''m stuck here without them? 51240 And who would have expected that the meteor would have collided first with the outer asteroids, and picked up a cargo of-- those? |
| 51240 | He asked without sarcasm,"Why do n''t you think of a way?" |
| 51240 | He noticed that Louise had shuddered again, and said, in the manner of a man making conversation,"Interesting, are n''t they? |
| 51240 | How about you?" |
| 51240 | She said,"Jim, darling, do you think you could get the television set working again?" |
| 51240 | She was sure to die anyway, before long, so why not have her live out her last days in the peace and contentment that only marak could bring? |
| 51240 | Who would have expected that a maverick meteor would come at us and displace us from our orbit? |
| 51240 | You agree to that, do n''t you, Louise, dear?" |
| 62313 | But what secret have I that is so powerful? |
| 62313 | Is that your only offer? |
| 62313 | Is this all of it? |
| 62313 | So it''s that kind of a game, is it? 62313 Toward the earth? |
| 62313 | Tricks? |
| 62313 | What''s the matter with him? |
| 62313 | Will you have some coffee? |
| 62313 | Is that what you want, Caddo? |
| 62313 | The value of_ J_?" |
| 62313 | What is it?" |
| 61843 | Alive, and adrift in space? 61843 But the purpose, Keith? |
| 61843 | But what would that get you? 61843 How?" |
| 61843 | Ships? 61843 They wo n''t?" |
| 61843 | When shall we try it? |
| 61843 | You mean--? |
| 61843 | You say,he questioned, addressing Bormon,"that there are other men on Echo-- Earthmen being used as slaves?" |
| 61843 | And of what does a big magnet remind you?" |
| 61843 | But what of Calbur? |
| 61843 | But where was Calbur? |
| 61843 | Could he last? |
| 61843 | What was about to happen? |
| 61843 | What''s the scheme?" |
| 61843 | Where?" |
| 61843 | Who are they?" |
| 61843 | Why not destroy their communications, fix things so they could n''t call for help from Mars? |
| 61843 | Would n''t a Mart guard be sure to come along to investigate?" |
| 61843 | You say they''re building ships? |
| 61919 | And the corn, I suppose is merely a synthetic product? |
| 61919 | But why has n''t he fallen down? |
| 61919 | By grafting and cross fertilization? |
| 61919 | Could n''t you make some other poison to get rid of them again? |
| 61919 | Does n''t our degaussing equipment work? |
| 61919 | How did he do it? |
| 61919 | How did he get there? |
| 61919 | How do they know where we are? |
| 61919 | It looks-- almost human,came from Mick,"but why would a human being need steps in this gravity?" |
| 61919 | Real roasting ears? |
| 61919 | Shall we go in? |
| 61919 | Stone? |
| 61919 | Who ever thought we''d have to fight plants on an asteroid? |
| 61919 | Why should he? 61919 Would n''t you want to go back to Terra with us?" |
| 61919 | You mean grow near? |
| 61919 | You mean that stuff was corn? |
| 61919 | You see? 61919 Are you from Mars? 61919 Are you still on the bridge? |
| 61919 | How does it happen you live on this Godforsaken bit of rock?" |
| 61919 | If so, why did n''t he hail them? |
| 61919 | Was someone watching them from inside? |
| 61919 | Why had n''t the dead man been buried? |
| 61919 | Yet, what crime had been committed? |
| 61766 | Almost there, are n''t we? |
| 61766 | Coming out of it, are you? 61766 Happened?" |
| 61766 | How the hell would I know? 61766 See that? |
| 61766 | What do I do-- a swan dive from the emergency lock? |
| 61766 | What happened? |
| 61766 | What happened? |
| 61766 | What the devil was it? |
| 61766 | You know what? 61766 You''ll come in, huh? |
| 61766 | A trick of the sunlight-- perhaps the shadow of the ship? |
| 61766 | And that our ships are also negatively charged-- in fact super- charged because of the driving fields we use? |
| 61766 | And what do you care? |
| 61766 | Blast my orbit, what happened?" |
| 61766 | But what could he do? |
| 61766 | Did you know that the earth and most planets are negatively charged-- have a surplus of electrons? |
| 61766 | Funny, is n''t it? |
| 61766 | I''ve got to ditch you where you''ll stay put--""So it''s H277 plus for me?" |
| 61766 | I-- where d''you come from?" |
| 61766 | Want to come in on this with me?" |
| 61766 | What does it mean, Akars?" |
| 61766 | Why not ray me here and chuck out the remains?" |
| 61766 | You mean we''re the only survivors?" |
| 61766 | _ Box Jordan!_ Why kill him like this? |
| 62915 | ''Why a slide- rule?'' 62915 And did anything pop?" |
| 62915 | How''d you happen to have zircon earrings along? |
| 62915 | I grabbed him to help him up, and said,''Haynes, what''s the matter? 62915 Till morning?" |
| 62915 | ''Dick,''I asked,''have you noticed it?'' |
| 62915 | And Blake said,"What did you do?" |
| 62915 | And now you say-- Or is there something wrong with my_ sense of earring_?" |
| 62915 | And what happened to the person they took over?" |
| 62915 | Anybody want to come?" |
| 62915 | Blake asked,"Was it gold?" |
| 62915 | But--"***** I did n''t go anywhere with the"but--"and there was a moment''s silence, and then Charlie said,"Well?" |
| 62915 | Do n''t you know when you''re being ribbed? |
| 62915 | Have n''t you noticed_ anything_ out of the ordinary?'' |
| 62915 | He said,"Hank, what went on Ganymede? |
| 62915 | I said,"What''s the pistol for, Blake?" |
| 62915 | Kind of immodest, was n''t it?" |
| 62915 | Like if you''d never seen a snake, you''d never guess that a little coral snake was dangerous, would you? |
| 62915 | Or was it crossbows that the Amerinds used against the colonists? |
| 62915 | Space travel had n''t developed on Ganymede--"***** Charlie interrupted me again,"But if they were so smart, why did n''t they develop it themselves?" |
| 62915 | The entity running him had decided the body was no longer practicable for use, so he handed himself back to the other native, see? |
| 62915 | We did n''t know what we might run into, see? |
| 62915 | What bit them off?" |
| 62915 | What happened to Art and Hilda and Lecky and Haynes? |
| 62915 | What the hell goes on here? |
| 62915 | You hurt?'' |
| 62915 | You were on that ship that went out there a few months ago, were n''t you-- the first one that got through? |
| 62186 | Cracking up, eh, Wallace? |
| 62186 | Even for good money, most of which we have n''t collected? 62186 Norman Haynes would n''t be practically boss of the Minor Planets anymore, would he? |
| 62186 | So he thinks he''ll come back to the asteroids, and replace me in the business, does he? 62186 What have you done with Irene?" |
| 62186 | What were you gon na tell me before, Nick? |
| 62186 | What''s he mean-- use gravity? |
| 62186 | Why ask me? |
| 62186 | Why should we work for you anyway? |
| 62186 | You did n''t realize it, did you, Haynes? |
| 62186 | You think Nick has a dumb idea, eh, Chet Wallace? |
| 62186 | *****"Let me in on the job?" |
| 62186 | A huge rocket, hitting the jagged crags above, at meteoric speed? |
| 62186 | And how could I answer them? |
| 62186 | And what happens? |
| 62186 | But how can we? |
| 62186 | Could I break the gravity machinery some way? |
| 62186 | Could I trust old Art? |
| 62186 | Crumpling, destroying itself and those inside it? |
| 62186 | Did he know he was opposed to Norman Haynes, or did he think it was somebody else who had sabotaged the project? |
| 62186 | Do you hear me? |
| 62186 | Do you know what the air pressure is, at the bottom of a ten- mile shaft, even at normal Earth gravity? |
| 62186 | God-- what could I do? |
| 62186 | Had Irene told him about his nephew, or had she kept silent? |
| 62186 | Had my guesses and hopes, which had seemed so unsubstantial, been correct? |
| 62186 | Have you any idea how many ships it would take to bring those thousands and thousands of tons of stuff out here-- even to get started?" |
| 62186 | Or have you left 487 too? |
| 62186 | So-- there was only one person and I thought you''d mistrust him.... Why do n''t you answer? |
| 62186 | Then we might shove off to the Iridium Circle, or some other joint, and have us a time, huh?" |
| 62186 | Want to listen? |
| 62186 | What of it? |
| 62186 | What was it? |
| 62186 | What would be his next step in completing our final defeat? |
| 62186 | What''ll we do?" |
| 62186 | Where would his loyalties be, if he found out? |
| 62186 | [ Illustration:_"Cracking up, eh, Wallace?" |
| 63130 | And you really know about the game? 63130 Bugs? |
| 63130 | Ca n''t you do something to stop it? |
| 63130 | Could I have the suit now? |
| 63130 | Game? |
| 63130 | Games, eh? |
| 63130 | Have some trouble? |
| 63130 | He''s an outsider, ai n''t he? |
| 63130 | Hear you say you was coaching the Twenty- three bunch? |
| 63130 | How come a bookkeeper can handle a ship like that? |
| 63130 | Like what? |
| 63130 | Revenuer? |
| 63130 | Stilts? |
| 63130 | Stop what? |
| 63130 | Visitor? |
| 63130 | Well? |
| 63130 | What about that story? |
| 63130 | What are you talking about? |
| 63130 | What business he got coming in here and messing around with things? |
| 63130 | What in tarnation is all this foolishness? |
| 63130 | Why not? |
| 63130 | You are the gentleman who can fix things? |
| 63130 | You learned it? |
| 63130 | You mean you brought it in alone? 63130 You taught it to us, did n''t you?" |
| 63130 | You''ll what? |
| 63130 | You''re certain of that? |
| 63130 | Debris of a moon smashed up by Saturn''s pull? |
| 63130 | Hamilton?" |
| 63130 | How in the world had he ever let himself get into a thing like this? |
| 63130 | No one with you?" |
| 63130 | Something about Juno, was n''t it? |
| 63130 | Sweepings of space? |
| 63130 | What was it Gus had said about them burrowing into metal just like chiggers burrow into human flesh? |
| 63130 | What was the use? |
| 63130 | What you got?" |
| 63130 | Where could I find him?" |
| 63130 | You was n''t kidding us?" |
| 63527 | A yo- yo? |
| 63527 | But he asked for cinnabar, did n''t he? 63527 Did n''t he?" |
| 63527 | How do you propose to go about convincing the Saylor brothers they ought to let us have the asteroid back? 63527 How long were we floating around out there?" |
| 63527 | Ma''am,said Bob, blinking,"did you say something?" |
| 63527 | Say that again? |
| 63527 | The asteroid--"You_ have_ to marry him? |
| 63527 | This is some kind of dirty trick you and your grandfather cooked up? |
| 63527 | What do you damned fools think you''re trying to do? |
| 63527 | What do you think of this situation Billy? |
| 63527 | What''s that? |
| 63527 | What-- what will they do? |
| 63527 | Would you mind telling me, young man, how it is that my granddaughter was in your ship? |
| 63527 | You can ask me now, ca n''t you, Bob? |
| 63527 | _ Are_ you asking me, Bob? |
| 63527 | A cold, completely disagreeable feminine voice said,"May I ask what you interlopers are doing on my asteroid?" |
| 63527 | But how? |
| 63527 | COSMIC YO- YO By ROSS ROCKLYNNE"Want an asteroid in your backyard? |
| 63527 | Do n''t we, Queazy?" |
| 63527 | He''s been badgering me for years to marry Mac, and so has Mac--""Who''s Mac?" |
| 63527 | In the meantime, Starre-- ahem-- none of us has eaten in three weeks...?" |
| 63527 | Okay?" |
| 63527 | Okay?" |
| 63527 | Queazy, my boy, can you imagine it? |
| 63527 | Right?" |
| 63527 | Satisfied?" |
| 63527 | Some screwball millionaire wants it for a backyard wedding see? |
| 63527 | That meant he had been floating around out here-- how long? |
| 63527 | We''re in this together, understand? |
| 63527 | What do you mean by waiting until the last minute to bring the asteroid?" |
| 63527 | _ How?_"Starre''s blue eyes followed the long cable back to where it was attached around her ship''s narrow midsection. |
| 63150 | Alive, eh? 63150 But what? |
| 63150 | But, Captain,Randall spoke impulsively,"why ca n''t we get some of the mineral from this end of the cavern and blast off this awful place?" |
| 63150 | Considering my reputation for... er... shall we say dishonor? |
| 63150 | Double- crosser, eh? 63150 Have you gone space- crazy, you rat?" |
| 63150 | How do you know Marla''s alive? |
| 63150 | How do you know it''s alive? 63150 Perhaps you wanted to explain why you were n''t at your battle station?" |
| 63150 | Something alive on this barren world? 63150 Switch over to relays and strap in, Scotty, I''ll give you thirty seconds,"Dennis grinned, then turned to Jeffery:"Ready Lieutenant?" |
| 63150 | Well? |
| 63150 | What did you see, sir? |
| 63150 | What happened, an attack? 63150 What was it? |
| 63150 | What was it? 63150 What''s the racket for?" |
| 63150 | What''s your opinion? 63150 Where''s Randall?" |
| 63150 | You Captain... you''re defending''i m? 63150 You mean we''re stuck in this hellish rock- pile?" |
| 63150 | You wanted what? |
| 63150 | Got it?" |
| 63150 | He smiled again,"You are risking a great deal by coming here, are n''t you, Captain?" |
| 63150 | It was then Jeffery interrupted him:"We''ll draw lots for that, wo n''t we, Captain?" |
| 63150 | Koerber''s men?" |
| 63150 | Radioactive?" |
| 63150 | See our pretty company?" |
| 63150 | Then his face darkened:"Let''s finish it quick, Dennis, what''re you selling?" |
| 63150 | There was a smouldering hatred in those eyes, and something else... envy, perhaps, or was it jealousy? |
| 63150 | Think we can patch her up, or are we stuck here indefinitely?" |
| 63150 | Want me to choke?" |
| 63150 | What can she be to you than just another passing conquest? |
| 63150 | What made you think I''d cut you in on the discovery? |
| 63150 | Where''s the wealth and all this power you''re talking about to come from?" |
| 63150 | Who else could afford to risk his neck at the International, and have in his possession a disintegrator? |
| 63150 | Who''s getting funny? |
| 63150 | You know the I.S.P., never lets its agents down-- you knew she''d accepted an assignment, did n''t you?" |
| 63401 | Did n''t the Jupiter Food- growers Association enlist you girls to go to the colonies? |
| 63401 | Do you feel strong enough to hike back to our camp? 63401 Has anybody ever told you what a handsome fellow you are?" |
| 63401 | Has it been that long? 63401 Hot, is n''t it?" |
| 63401 | How about coming with me to gather fruit? |
| 63401 | How about some roast? |
| 63401 | How''s the invalid? |
| 63401 | Is n''t that just like a man? |
| 63401 | Is there any chance of patching it up? |
| 63401 | Is there any possibility of repairing your ship? |
| 63401 | Is-- is anything broken? |
| 63401 | Or me? |
| 63401 | Sure enough? |
| 63401 | We? |
| 63401 | What''s wrong? |
| 63401 | What? |
| 63401 | What? |
| 63401 | Where are you going? |
| 63401 | Where did you get it? |
| 63401 | Where do you get that stuff? |
| 63401 | Who''d ever thought a man could look so good? |
| 63401 | Why wo n''t the Centaurs follow us into the hills? |
| 63401 | You are sure you wo n''t return, young man? |
| 63401 | You got a cigarette? |
| 63401 | You wo n''t try to get away? |
| 63401 | You''re not dead? |
| 63401 | _ Cut off whose feet?_he cried in alarm. |
| 63401 | A voice shouted:"What''s going on there?" |
| 63401 | Billy said,"How badly wrecked is your ship?" |
| 63401 | He said nervously,"Where am I? |
| 63401 | He said,"Do any of you know how to grow tobacco?" |
| 63401 | Is n''t there anything new under the sun?" |
| 63401 | Jonathan do you know that you are irresistible?" |
| 63401 | Robinson Crusoe was going back to his man(?) |
| 63401 | She said,"How''s the fish?" |
| 63401 | What happened? |
| 58748 | And get shot? |
| 58748 | And have you beat me to it and get the drop on me? 58748 And have you jump me from behind? |
| 58748 | Do you have to do that? |
| 58748 | Figured it pretty close, did n''t you, Kraag? |
| 58748 | Fuel tank? 58748 Getting desperate enough to fight like a man now, are n''t you, Kraag? |
| 58748 | Gun on the back hook, eh, Kraag? |
| 58748 | Gun? |
| 58748 | Have a good night''s sleep? |
| 58748 | Having fun, Kraag? |
| 58748 | How do you refuel this thing, Jonner? |
| 58748 | If you shot Stein, why would n''t you shoot me? |
| 58748 | Jonner, what in hell? |
| 58748 | Kraag, are you tuned in? |
| 58748 | Nice night out, is n''t it, Kraag? |
| 58748 | Not figuring on jumping off the planet, are you, Jonner? |
| 58748 | Stein? 58748 Sure we''re on Ceres?" |
| 58748 | That''s self- preservation? 58748 The airlock, eh? |
| 58748 | Using my gun now, eh, Kraag? |
| 58748 | What do you want? |
| 58748 | What the devil are you doing out there, Jonner? |
| 58748 | What''s going on out there now? |
| 58748 | What''s going on, Stein? |
| 58748 | What''s up, Kraag? |
| 58748 | Where''s Stein? |
| 58748 | Why do n''t you give it up and come on in, Jonner? |
| 58748 | Why do n''t you give it up, Jonner? |
| 58748 | Why not just toss it away? |
| 58748 | Why should I? |
| 58748 | Why the gun? |
| 58748 | You''d like to see me exhaust the fuel tank of your pistol shooting it in the dark, when I ca n''t hit you, would n''t you? |
| 58748 | A miracle?" |
| 58748 | But what was Jonner dividing by it, and why? |
| 58748 | But what was the problem? |
| 58748 | Did Jonner have some sort of new weapon? |
| 58748 | How could it happen? |
| 58748 | How had it happened? |
| 58748 | If you do n''t want to talk to me, then are you ready to come in?" |
| 58748 | In one of the capacious outside pockets he put two spare flashlights and half a dozen of the extra fuel packets-- What was it Jonner had called them? |
| 58748 | Small meteor? |
| 58748 | What did Stein say the escape velocity here is?" |
| 58748 | What if you fall into a crevice?" |
| 58748 | What were you expecting to save us? |
| 58748 | Where are you now?" |
| 60809 | And our aid shipments--? |
| 60809 | And why is it so vital? |
| 60809 | And you think Summerson signed an aid agreement with this potentate? |
| 60809 | And you think--? |
| 60809 | Anything yet? |
| 60809 | But it was our aid shipment, was n''t it? |
| 60809 | Communications interfusion? |
| 60809 | Did you check with Summerson? |
| 60809 | Did you take care of the McWorther World aid consignment? |
| 60809 | Do n''t you see? 60809 How about cultural exchange?" |
| 60809 | How far do you want to go? |
| 60809 | Netath? 60809 So they''ve opened up a new aid offensive?" |
| 60809 | Terms? |
| 60809 | Then there''s a Rear- Sobucks customer who has been unnecessarily inconvenienced and still has n''t been satisfied? |
| 60809 | Three days-- what? |
| 60809 | What are we going to do? |
| 60809 | What are you going to do about all that stuff cluttering up our beautiful planetoid? |
| 60809 | What do you suppose? |
| 60809 | What do you think we ought to do? |
| 60809 | What is it this time? |
| 60809 | What is it, Titus? |
| 60809 | What is it? |
| 60809 | What kind? |
| 60809 | What''s the gimmick? 60809 What_ have_ you gotten us into now, Titus?" |
| 60809 | What_ is_ it? |
| 60809 | Where are you, Titus? |
| 60809 | Where do you want it? |
| 60809 | Where''s this Potentate McWorther character? |
| 60809 | Who are they? 60809 Why?" |
| 60809 | Yes, sir? |
| 60809 | Yes, sir? |
| 60809 | You Potentate McWorther? |
| 60809 | You got the word on this place, Pudgy? 60809 You''re going somewhere, Highness?" |
| 60809 | _ That''s_ the cosmic aid we were expecting? |
| 60809 | _ This_ is it? |
| 60809 | Bristling, the undersecretary said,"And call attention to our own incompetence? |
| 60809 | Do you remember last year when we had that communications survey made? |
| 60809 | Forty- five hundred tons of soybeans?" |
| 60809 | Four thousand kegs of eight- penny nails? |
| 60809 | GRAVY TRAIN By DANIEL F. GALOUYE_ Ever hear of evil fairies who grant three wishes? |
| 60809 | He drew the contacter out of his pocket and shouted into its grid,"Miss Yalera?" |
| 60809 | Matching his frown, Edna read a second sheet and demanded,"What on earth do you expect to do with a hundred thousand barrels of wheat germ oil? |
| 60809 | Netath?" |
| 60809 | What day is it?" |
| 60809 | What do they want?" |
| 60809 | What is it-- a stopover station?" |
| 60809 | What''s the population?" |
| 60809 | Why are they keeping us loafing around here?" |
| 60809 | extended a"so what?" |
| 62168 | And what did you say that stuff was that saved your life? |
| 62168 | And what you''re going to do is--? |
| 62168 | Coming? |
| 62168 | Did it ever occur to you that intelligent salesmanship can do wonders? 62168 Do you suppose you can make him cough up?" |
| 62168 | Having fun? |
| 62168 | How would you like to be put away for robbery? 62168 I guess you know what you''re up against?" |
| 62168 | Is it? 62168 Kittrell? |
| 62168 | Me? 62168 Now what do I do?" |
| 62168 | Now what the hell did you do that for? |
| 62168 | Rolled you? |
| 62168 | So? |
| 62168 | Some place on Earth, was n''t it? |
| 62168 | Then what do they do with this metal if they do n''t eat it? |
| 62168 | Was that an order for another drink? |
| 62168 | Well? |
| 62168 | What are you talking about? |
| 62168 | What''s going on? |
| 62168 | What''s that got to do with your resignation? |
| 62168 | What''s that? |
| 62168 | What''s the matter with them, anyhow? 62168 Where''re you going?" |
| 62168 | Where''s the rest of it? |
| 62168 | Who the devil are you? |
| 62168 | Why not? |
| 62168 | Will he do it? |
| 62168 | Wo n''t tell me, huh? |
| 62168 | You see how it is? |
| 62168 | After all, why not? |
| 62168 | Anyway, you''re bigger than him-- or do n''t you like rough stuff?" |
| 62168 | Do they eat it?" |
| 62168 | He said,"You''re Kittrell, right?" |
| 62168 | How''s the head?" |
| 62168 | So what?" |
| 62168 | Tensing his chest muscles against the bruises, he said,"Give me a cigarette, Kittrell? |
| 62168 | Then,"What are your plans now, MacCauley? |
| 62168 | What do you want me to do-- adopt him?" |
| 62168 | What the devil, who''ll know we were here?" |
| 62168 | Where do I go?" |
| 62168 | Who are you?" |
| 62168 | Why, by all the Plutonian Ice Devils, should I have to pay for your mistake?" |
| 62168 | You do n''t mind if they watch, do you?" |
| 62168 | You him?" |
| 62168 | You know where I was stationed last year?" |
| 62168 | You''d like that, would n''t you?" |
| 62569 | A red one or a blue one? |
| 62569 | Ah, then, wo n''t that be a scoop for you, boy? 62569 Ai n''t your say- so good enough for me?" |
| 62569 | And-- what if I forget to remember all that? 62569 Are you telling me? |
| 62569 | Come back? 62569 Did you feel_ that_?" |
| 62569 | Did you see them run, Click boy? 62569 Hey, where_ you_ going?" |
| 62569 | Huh? |
| 62569 | Is this IT? |
| 62569 | Is this where the Big Producer yells CUT!? |
| 62569 | Is this_ what_? |
| 62569 | Now, what will we be doing with these uninvited guests at our door? |
| 62569 | Ready, Click? |
| 62569 | So you''re Gunther? |
| 62569 | Still doubt it? 62569 Sure, and ai n''t I always smilin''? |
| 62569 | Think not, Mr. Marnagan? 62569 What do they say...? |
| 62569 | What good would that do? |
| 62569 | What in hell''s the use? 62569 Where are we?" |
| 62569 | Why do n''t they put window- wipers in these helmets? |
| 62569 | Why not? |
| 62569 | Won''t-- won''t they kill us-- if they come-- if we believe in''em? |
| 62569 | You breathing oxygen or whiskey? |
| 62569 | You sure them beasts do n''t radiate ultra- violet or infra- red or something that wo n''t come out on film? |
| 62569 | _ Do_ we, now? |
| 62569 | Ah, Click boy, are them tears in your sweet grey eyes?" |
| 62569 | And that was a pretty chase, eh, Click?" |
| 62569 | And what are they running from? |
| 62569 | Are you ready, Hathaway?" |
| 62569 | Did you photograph it, Click?" |
| 62569 | Gunther''d do anything to-- did I say_ anything_?" |
| 62569 | Gunther, the little dried up pirate, eh?" |
| 62569 | How did we do?" |
| 62569 | How did you like my death- scenes?" |
| 62569 | How do we do it?" |
| 62569 | How good an actor are you?" |
| 62569 | How''d you get past the animals?" |
| 62569 | How?" |
| 62569 | Is that clear?" |
| 62569 | It makes it look like I''m a mighty brave man, does it not? |
| 62569 | Let a flea have all the fun? |
| 62569 | Marnagan die? |
| 62569 | Or_ was_ suffocation a better death...? |
| 62569 | See how subtle his attack is? |
| 62569 | So what''s the best weapon, which dispenses with losing valuable, rare ships and a small bunch of men? |
| 62569 | Something about these monsters and Gunther and--"Which one will you be having?" |
| 62569 | What if I get excited...?" |
| 62569 | Where''s the door leading into the Base?" |
| 62569 | You think we could refocus this doohingey, project the monsters inside the asteroid to fool the pirates themselves?" |
| 62040 | All right now, Ralston? |
| 62040 | And you could n''t? |
| 62040 | But wo n''t you at least come and see what I have to show you? |
| 62040 | But you will be married? |
| 62040 | Can they hear you when you speak? 62040 Good Lord, that weird monster-- can it hear us, if we whisper like this?" |
| 62040 | He stole the ship, and killed your uncle? |
| 62040 | Johnny, look here; you say you want to escape, get back to Earth? |
| 62040 | No? 62040 Part of him? |
| 62040 | So they got you and your girl? |
| 62040 | Surely that''s not habitable? |
| 62040 | The Physicals all went outside? |
| 62040 | The music is very pretty? |
| 62040 | The whole planetoid is like that? |
| 62040 | Very nice, is n''t it? |
| 62040 | Was it Bragg, or Torkine himself who came with the Physicals and caught us? |
| 62040 | What happened? 62040 Where am I?" |
| 62040 | Where is she? |
| 62040 | You and the young lady like music? |
| 62040 | You have recovered? 62040 You, Tom-- you understand? |
| 62040 | A blow at one of its hearts? |
| 62040 | A body of animal tissue, or mineral? |
| 62040 | And one suddenly called:"Why wait, Torkine? |
| 62040 | And suddenly the Supreme One said:"You, Torkine, you tell me you knew this girl many of your years ago?" |
| 62040 | Apparently not, for its voice said sharply:"For why do you chuckle, Torkine?" |
| 62040 | But why should that be exclusively necessary throughout the Universe? |
| 62040 | By what weird method of nature were swift communications passing between these little things and their main Being so distant? |
| 62040 | Can they talk?" |
| 62040 | Could this monstrous Being read our human thoughts? |
| 62040 | Did he take Bragg in there?" |
| 62040 | Even if we had been armed, of what use would a knife or a bullet- weapon be against this multiple monster? |
| 62040 | God, when you see it--"What weird horrible thing was this? |
| 62040 | Had Torkine forced Mrs. Holten to tell her what work was being done there? |
| 62040 | Had Torkine taken it? |
| 62040 | Had she noticed that the man who had accosted us knew her name? |
| 62040 | His arms and legs? |
| 62040 | Is she all right?" |
| 62040 | Knew Dora years ago? |
| 62040 | Little creatures? |
| 62040 | Or honeymooning?" |
| 62040 | See it?" |
| 62040 | The criminal Torkine and his fifty men-- what murderous action were they planning? |
| 62040 | Was it clothed? |
| 62040 | Was it living tissue, or wholly metal? |
| 62040 | Was that damnable, headless little thing about to pounce on me? |
| 62040 | Was this weird fellow a solicitor for some rich man''s altruistic colony? |
| 62040 | What is yours?" |
| 62040 | Where had Torkine gone? |
| 62040 | Who are you?" |
| 62040 | You are engaged maybe? |
| 62040 | You are the human called Tom Ralston?" |
| 62040 | You see he did not die, little Dora?" |
| 62040 | You see? |
| 62040 | You understand? |
| 62040 | You, Tom Ralston-- have they told you my purpose?" |
| 62040 | Your name is Tom Ralston, is n''t it? |
| 61967 | But after three weeks,Prokle protested,"and only a few days''oxygen and provisions? |
| 61967 | But good Lord, why take pot shots at us? 61967 But-- but Hype-- you ca n''t be serious-- to pass up this?" |
| 61967 | Can you beat that for luck? |
| 61967 | Did n''t you notice? |
| 61967 | Do meteors singe your ears? 61967 How do you know?" |
| 61967 | I said: what happened to our little stalemate? 61967 Say, how many are supposed to be in that missing party, anyway?" |
| 61967 | See something? |
| 61967 | See there? 61967 See?" |
| 61967 | The survival of the fittest, remember? 61967 Very cute, huh?" |
| 61967 | We''re your friends, do n''t you understand that? 61967 What do you say, Hype? |
| 61967 | What else is there to live for out here? |
| 61967 | What is it? |
| 61967 | What is it? |
| 61967 | What now? |
| 61967 | Which-- what did you say? |
| 61967 | Why not? |
| 61967 | Why should n''t it be him? |
| 61967 | All the others were saved-- don''t you want to be saved? |
| 61967 | And if he is n''t... why, then I''d just have to persuade him, would n''t I? |
| 61967 | Can you tell if there''s more than one?" |
| 61967 | D''you think we''d ever get out here to this gold again? |
| 61967 | Did you hear? |
| 61967 | Did you? |
| 61967 | For the love of-- Hey, Hype, can you hear me?" |
| 61967 | Glad you came along?" |
| 61967 | He said,"Well, shall I take the light side and you the dark? |
| 61967 | Hell, I wonder what he does think we want?" |
| 61967 | How could there be a signal flare here anyway? |
| 61967 | How do you figure a party of six could have survived that long?" |
| 61967 | How does that suit you?" |
| 61967 | Is n''t that quaint?" |
| 61967 | Know what that is?" |
| 61967 | Look here, Hype, those life- boats are all provisioned about the same, ai n''t they? |
| 61967 | Nice little stalemate, huh?" |
| 61967 | Or the time he''d spent out here? |
| 61967 | Oxygen for three or four days, and food for a day or two at the most?" |
| 61967 | Prokle revealed how it suited him when he said:"It''s an uncharted swarm, ai n''t it?" |
| 61967 | Sight for the Lanisar group?" |
| 61967 | Suddenly across to them came Chiswell''s jumbled words again, this time tinged with fear:"Whispering, are you? |
| 61967 | Ten minutes later Garth crept cautiously to his partner''s side and whispered:"You''re sure it was n''t a meteor you saw?" |
| 61967 | The space- wreck? |
| 61967 | The speech was so inarticulate, that it was n''t until he was nearly out of breath that they began to gather the purport:"... damn tricky are you? |
| 61967 | Then Garth added:"The_ Martian Princess_, do n''t you remember? |
| 61967 | Twenty- one days, Prokle, remember? |
| 61967 | We''ve got a maniac on our hands, Hype, what''ll we do now?" |
| 61967 | Well, which is it going to be?" |
| 61967 | Why should there be? |
| 61967 | You know, the one we were at a moment ago?" |
| 61967 | You know-- to men who cling tenaciously to life?" |
| 61967 | You''d hate to be the last, Prokle, would n''t you? |
| 61967 | _ Why had that madman dragged Prokle in here?_ For the first time in his life Garth disregarded his warning premonition. |
| 62075 | And that is Earth? |
| 62075 | And that room there, that is for me, the Man- God? |
| 62075 | And what''s it like? 62075 And you ca n''t remember that coming?" |
| 62075 | But Ah- li, where do you get that_ Xarite_? 62075 Ca n''t you remember?" |
| 62075 | Dr. Johns? 62075 Dr. Johns? |
| 62075 | Friendly? 62075 I am to be made a God now?" |
| 62075 | Look here, who the devil are you? |
| 62075 | Me? 62075 My life in the God- Heaven?" |
| 62075 | Oh-- that? 62075 So? |
| 62075 | That fellow understands English? |
| 62075 | That? 62075 The Earth?" |
| 62075 | The Heaven of the Gods? |
| 62075 | We''re going, you understand? |
| 62075 | We''re supposed to go up here over the tree- tops? |
| 62075 | What is that? 62075 What is that?" |
| 62075 | When did you come here? |
| 62075 | When do you think Selah will send for us? |
| 62075 | Where did you get that? |
| 62075 | Who are you that you speak the language of the Gods? |
| 62075 | Why-- what is that? |
| 62075 | You appeared here in the forest? |
| 62075 | You chew the intoxicating weed? |
| 62075 | You have told them of the_ genes_? |
| 62075 | You speak my language? |
| 62075 | An Earthgirl? |
| 62075 | And how could he fail his dead father? |
| 62075 | And take the girl with him? |
| 62075 | Did the spores, the_ genes_ drift through the immensity of space? |
| 62075 | Does n''t that mean something to you? |
| 62075 | Earth- people who had died or been killed when the girl was too young to have learned anything? |
| 62075 | Had she come alone, or with others who, doubtless, in the wreck of the ship, had been cremated so that remains of them had never been found? |
| 62075 | Had some Earth- explorers landed here, bringing her when she was an infant? |
| 62075 | Here is the God-- our Man- God who was gone?" |
| 62075 | How would he get the girl out of this damnable place? |
| 62075 | Johns?" |
| 62075 | Loose in the caves?" |
| 62075 | My people? |
| 62075 | Near here?" |
| 62075 | They will be counting upon you._"How could he fail them? |
| 62075 | They will know I''m friendly?" |
| 62075 | Thousands? |
| 62075 | Three years ago? |
| 62075 | Was it right for him to destroy her faith in her own power to do good among the people of this world? |
| 62075 | Was it that? |
| 62075 | What would he be here? |
| 62075 | When did you come? |
| 62075 | Where was Ah- li? |
| 62075 | Where was Bohr? |
| 62075 | Why-- why--""Yes?" |
| 62075 | Your people, are they around here?" |
| 62324 | And this thing gets broadcasts from the fourth dimension? |
| 62324 | Another one sold? 62324 Are-- are you all right?" |
| 62324 | Aw, Harv,he protested,"do we have to sell it? |
| 62324 | But how could you understand what they''re saying? 62324 But what would your offer have been which I would have turned down?" |
| 62324 | But why use it on me? |
| 62324 | Did Johnson ask to taste it, or did he not? 62324 Did Johnson know that when he sold you?" |
| 62324 | Do n''t you feel well? |
| 62324 | Do n''t you think we ought to tell him about the batteries, Harv? |
| 62324 | Do you dare to repeat the scurvy lie that broke Dean''s spirit and drove him to suicide? |
| 62324 | Got a mechanic around this dumping ground you call a port? |
| 62324 | How about that thing with six arms? 62324 How much did it cost us?" |
| 62324 | How much did we have when we landed, Joseph? |
| 62324 | How much do you want? |
| 62324 | How much? |
| 62324 | I ai n''t_ saying_ I''ll buy, but what is it I''m turning down? |
| 62324 | Is that what you want to unload on me? |
| 62324 | Is that what you were talking about? |
| 62324 | Now do you see, my hot- tempered colleague? |
| 62324 | Plus what-- arsenic? |
| 62324 | Strangers, eh? |
| 62324 | Then where''s the water lead- in? 62324 This what?" |
| 62324 | What about it? |
| 62324 | What about the batteries? |
| 62324 | What do I do then? |
| 62324 | What do you mean,_ once_? |
| 62324 | What in solar blazes are you talking about? |
| 62324 | What is it? |
| 62324 | What is? |
| 62324 | What makes you think I want a radio? 62324 What the devil is this?" |
| 62324 | What''s that? |
| 62324 | What''s this doing here? |
| 62324 | Where you heading? |
| 62324 | Which one? 62324 Who said anything about charging you for battery water? |
| 62324 | Yeah? |
| 62324 | You remember those yokels on Mars''Flatlands, and the way they worshipped gold? |
| 62324 | But by reducing our funds the way you have--""Who said I wanted to sell him?" |
| 62324 | But how much did you say?" |
| 62324 | Ca n''t we grab him off?" |
| 62324 | He asked:"But what are we to do about replenishing our battery fluid? |
| 62324 | He rubbed his fingers together and asked disinterestedly:"What were you going to offer, anyhow?" |
| 62324 | How much did we make on the sucker?" |
| 62324 | How much water will you need?" |
| 62324 | Joe, who had been sunk desparingly into a chair, now stood up slowly and asked:"Remember that bottle- opener we gave him?" |
| 62324 | Johnson asked skeptically:"How about a sample first?" |
| 62324 | The one we were going to make, or the one we can make now?" |
| 62324 | Then he glanced out to see the position of Jupiter, and asked:"You gents eaten yet? |
| 62324 | Then the sound of giant feet crossing the barroom floor reached their ears, and a shrill question:"What''s that, Papa?" |
| 62324 | Waddya think-- I was chargin''feller critters for water just out of devilment? |
| 62324 | Was I to mix the extract with the water for which we had been swindled to the tune of ten buckos a liter? |
| 62324 | What is our customary procedure in that event?" |
| 62324 | When they glanced up at Johnson in perplexity, he grinned, bowed and asked:"Everything satisfactory, gents?" |
| 62324 | Where would our profit have been, then? |
| 62324 | Why should that be so difficult to believe? |
| 62324 | Would we not be foolish to let you discover the clue before purchasing the right to do so?" |
| 62324 | You were going to say--?" |
| 62109 | And quarters for him-- with air- locks and such? |
| 62109 | As we? 62109 But could they not use even a crude machine to raise their own level of intelligence?" |
| 62109 | But would you make him as intelligent as--? |
| 62109 | But you would give them the X-19 waves? 62109 Der rocket-- if it goes not to der moon-- falls back on der earth, no?" |
| 62109 | Did you effer see der Mouse you vas named after, Mitkey? 62109 Does he understand, now, any of that language?" |
| 62109 | Loogk, could I nodt take back mitt me this brocess vhich you used upon me? 62109 Mitkey,"said Klarloth one day,"all der civilized races on Earth year glothing, do they nodt? |
| 62109 | No? 62109 See, Bemj? |
| 62109 | Temporary force- field around point of landing-- in case? |
| 62109 | Und vhy then, you may vell ask, do I send you? 62109 Vell, vell,"said the Professor,"vot haff ve here? |
| 62109 | Vhy not? |
| 62109 | Vife? |
| 62109 | Vot kind of glothing vas it, Mitkey? |
| 62109 | Vot on earth? |
| 62109 | Vot? 62109 Vot?" |
| 62109 | Who iss? |
| 62109 | You see, Mitkey, I vas going to sendt to der laboratory in Hardtford for a vhite mouse, budt vhy should I, mit you here? 62109 Abbly it to other mices, und greate a race of super- mices? |
| 62109 | Ah, you viggle your viskers und that means yes, no? |
| 62109 | Are they treated vell?" |
| 62109 | Bemj:"Iss this language vhich you sbeak a universal vun?" |
| 62109 | But why should that concern us, other than favorably? |
| 62109 | Can you no longer talk? |
| 62109 | Der rocket, if it goes not to der moon, falls back on der earth, no? |
| 62109 | Idt iss all here-- ve merely combine-- and ve achieff vhat, Mitkey? |
| 62109 | Insteadt, I--""Vot?? |
| 62109 | Insteadt, I--""Vot?? |
| 62109 | Iss it Minnie come to look for her Mitkey?" |
| 62109 | It iss a beaudiful sbeech, is it nodt?" |
| 62109 | It vill not hurt much, but you vill not like it, und after a few tries you vill learn not to try again, no? |
| 62109 | Minnie? |
| 62109 | Mitkey, how vould you like to go for a ride, negst veek? |
| 62109 | No? |
| 62109 | No? |
| 62109 | Oh, you mean the X-19 waves?" |
| 62109 | Our Mitkey iss on schedule; in fagt he iss going vaster than ve had vigured, no? |
| 62109 | Shall we destroy it before it gets here?" |
| 62109 | Some sort of a crusade, or battle of beliefs, going on, was n''t there?" |
| 62109 | Then, shall we teach him our language?" |
| 62109 | Und being used to living in dargk holes, you should suffer less than they from glaustrophobia, no?" |
| 62109 | Ve could make veapons that vould--""You see, Mitkey?" |
| 62109 | Ve think ve know eggsactly how mudch air there iss to calculate resistance against, but are ve absolutely sure? |
| 62109 | Veil, if you are to raise der level of mices to men, vould it not be vitting that you vear glothes, too?" |
| 62109 | Vhat? |
| 62109 | Vhere are you? |
| 62109 | You see now what I mean?" |
| 62109 | You see? |
| 62109 | You vant to see her?" |
| 62109 | You vould like to seem to be vree, vould you not, vithout bars, like der animals at modern zoos, vith moats insteadt?" |
| 62109 | You would n''t think that an asteroid could reform a drunk, would you? |
| 62109 | [ Illustration:"I BEG YOUR PARDON SIR, BUT, COULD YOU DIRECT ME TO HARTFORD?"] |
| 63633 | A Humanist? |
| 63633 | Against six months here? |
| 63633 | And Valeria? |
| 63633 | And how do I know you''ll keep your end of the bargain? |
| 63633 | And what do you hope for from it? |
| 63633 | And what do you intend for us? |
| 63633 | And when he sees he''s been tricked, you think he wo n''t wreck those links? 63633 Another squarehead, eh?" |
| 63633 | Did n''t you believe sweet reasonableness could solve everything? 63633 Do you know what a lithium bomb can do?" |
| 63633 | Do you want to die? |
| 63633 | Had n''t you heard? |
| 63633 | Hmmm... precision work, eh? |
| 63633 | How does a qualified spaceman happen to be marooned? |
| 63633 | How should I know? |
| 63633 | How''s that? |
| 63633 | Huh? 63633 I''m with Fireball, was on the_ Drake_--heard of what happened to her?" |
| 63633 | Is n''t it obvious? |
| 63633 | Is that true, Einar? |
| 63633 | It''s something to do with power beaming, is n''t it? |
| 63633 | Man, do n''t you ever see a newscast? |
| 63633 | Or do you want me to change that diaper of yours? |
| 63633 | Unless somebody''s for chess? |
| 63633 | Valkyries in spacesuits? |
| 63633 | Well,she said,"what''s the matter? |
| 63633 | What are you? |
| 63633 | What do you mean? |
| 63633 | What do you suggest? |
| 63633 | What have the psychotechs decided to do with this thing? |
| 63633 | What problems? |
| 63633 | What y''doing? |
| 63633 | What''s happening? |
| 63633 | What''s the matter, Bo? |
| 63633 | What? |
| 63633 | Why did you do that? |
| 63633 | Why did you kill Johnny? |
| 63633 | Why do n''t you give up, Bo? 63633 Why? |
| 63633 | Why? |
| 63633 | With a thick- headed clinker like me? |
| 63633 | Yes? |
| 63633 | --"And why were you all alone in the Belt?" |
| 63633 | Are you looking for a spaceman? |
| 63633 | Bring your papers over tomorrow, huh?" |
| 63633 | Ca n''t we be friends?" |
| 63633 | Ca n''t you find somebody?" |
| 63633 | Did he have an orbit now? |
| 63633 | Do you know what that means, Bo?" |
| 63633 | He spoke tentatively into his radio, in case Lundgard should be within the horizon:"Hello, are you there?" |
| 63633 | I do have Venusian clothes and a mask, but--""Then why are you keeping me covered too?" |
| 63633 | I tried to farm, but when you have to carve your own land out of howling desert-- Well, let''s start some math, shall we?" |
| 63633 | Is there anything I can do to help?" |
| 63633 | Look, Bo, why do n''t you get over that inferiority complex of yours? |
| 63633 | So what?" |
| 63633 | Sure you do n''t want me to ask if she has a friend?" |
| 63633 | The radio was non- directional, so he snapped back:"A gun against a monkey wrench?" |
| 63633 | There was no more feeling in his back, was he dead already? |
| 63633 | Valeria, Valeria, Valeria-- O strong and fair and never to be forgotten, would he ever see her again after they made Luna? |
| 63633 | What to do? |
| 63633 | What would the centrifugal and Coriolis forces be? |
| 63633 | Where to go, where to hide, what to do? |
| 63633 | Why ca n''t you be reasonable? |
| 63633 | Why not admit it?" |
| 63633 | Why not come out and finish it now?" |
| 63633 | Why the accident should have occurred, nobody knew... spacemen were not careless about inspections, and what reason would anyone have for sabotage? |
| 62416 | And what will that gain you? |
| 62416 | And, then, after a time it wears off? |
| 62416 | Are there other entrances? |
| 62416 | But-- where are we? |
| 62416 | Did they tell you how much I gave them? |
| 62416 | Did you ever think of that? |
| 62416 | Do you know where the Earthman Blaine is? |
| 62416 | Go where? |
| 62416 | Got a light? |
| 62416 | He? 62416 Hear them? |
| 62416 | How can you do that? 62416 How close do I have to get?" |
| 62416 | I guess it''s strange to you, not being able to buy everything with your money, is n''t it? |
| 62416 | Is that thing easy to operate? |
| 62416 | Of what good could that be to me? |
| 62416 | Purple radiance? |
| 62416 | See him? |
| 62416 | That was the last report made public, was n''t it? |
| 62416 | That''s the entrance to the Cavern of Machines? |
| 62416 | That? 62416 The Great Mind will see us soon?" |
| 62416 | Then, how is crime coming? 62416 Think I''m too old to help you young fellows now?" |
| 62416 | This underdress-- not too becoming, is it? |
| 62416 | Viv-- where are we? 62416 Well this time, anyway, I had a good motive, did n''t I?" |
| 62416 | What do you make of that? 62416 What do you mean?" |
| 62416 | What is that, Ratan? |
| 62416 | What weapons have you got? |
| 62416 | What''s that over there? |
| 62416 | What? |
| 62416 | Where you going? |
| 62416 | Who-- what is that? |
| 62416 | Why should I not, my wife and I? 62416 Wo n''t the guards discover we''re gone?" |
| 62416 | You have some plan? |
| 62416 | You say you know where they keep their space- flyer? |
| 62416 | You want to learn everything we know? |
| 62416 | You''re all right now, Bob? 62416 A man? 62416 And then-- do you not see something unusual in me? |
| 62416 | And why do you want to learn it? |
| 62416 | Are there liable to be more of them around?" |
| 62416 | Blaine-- where are you?" |
| 62416 | Bob, where are you? |
| 62416 | But if, perhaps, the Great Mind should suddenly die? |
| 62416 | But then, if it once occurs to you that they might be connected--""What other things?" |
| 62416 | Ca n''t you speak?" |
| 62416 | Could it be a solid body as big as five hundred miles in diameter? |
| 62416 | Could they find food and drink? |
| 62416 | Food?" |
| 62416 | For what? |
| 62416 | Had Ratan''s roar of startled anger aroused any guards out in the corridor? |
| 62416 | How does it work?" |
| 62416 | Many people missing lately?" |
| 62416 | Maybe that''s water? |
| 62416 | Or did he sense us in some other way? |
| 62416 | Or had the Radaks killed him by now? |
| 62416 | Or should they try to get back underground? |
| 62416 | Or would he be recovered by now?" |
| 62416 | Out which exit they went? |
| 62416 | Solid enough to be the cause, by its proximity, of the Earth''s axial and orbital disturbances? |
| 62416 | Suppose we do n''t want to teach you? |
| 62416 | Tell us-- what''s happened to all of us?" |
| 62416 | That means only the Great Mind, or Ratan will be down there in the Cavern?" |
| 62416 | That''s good sense, is n''t it?" |
| 62416 | The horror of things not yet seen... things lurking--"Oh Pete, what can we do?" |
| 62416 | Then what?" |
| 62416 | To have the murderous Radaks fall upon them and kill them? |
| 62416 | Vivian-- are you here?" |
| 62416 | Wander here, until some ghastly monster engulfed them? |
| 62416 | Was he gaining this fellow''s confidence? |
| 62416 | Was it water? |
| 62416 | Was this Crimson Comet hurling a lethal radiance at us, attacking the Earth? |
| 62416 | What I want to know is-- do you realize who and what I am, on Earth?" |
| 62416 | What are they saying? |
| 62416 | What are your plans? |
| 62416 | What happened?" |
| 62416 | When can you arrive?" |
| 62416 | Where is this Cavern of Machines?" |
| 62416 | Why? |
| 62416 | Would it be an hour, or a day? |
| 62416 | You know where the Earth- people would probably be now? |
| 62416 | You realize it?" |
| 61855 | Ah, so? |
| 61855 | An''by Heaven, if they try that-- you got a gun, Fanning? |
| 61855 | And fascinating? |
| 61855 | And you think now,I murmured,"your father is this mysterious Phantom raider?" |
| 61855 | And you''re not going to do that? |
| 61855 | Asteroid-9? |
| 61855 | Brenda, have you ever heard of an Earth- criminal called the Chameleon? |
| 61855 | But what-- what do you think you could do? |
| 61855 | Even though Philip was dead, you were going on with your plans alone? |
| 61855 | Fanning-- you saw that? |
| 61855 | Help him? |
| 61855 | Is that what it''s called? |
| 61855 | Is there-- is there really such a thing? |
| 61855 | My metal headplate? 61855 Oh, you, Mr. Fanning? |
| 61855 | Phantom bandit? |
| 61855 | Sighted us? |
| 61855 | So that blow on your head did n''t kill you, Fanning? |
| 61855 | What are you going to do? |
| 61855 | When? |
| 61855 | Yes, why not? |
| 61855 | You know where the exit porte of this ship is? |
| 61855 | You see how we are dressed here? 61855 You seen young Philip Carson? |
| 61855 | You suppose there is really any such thing? |
| 61855 | You think you got his message correctly? |
| 61855 | You were using an X- ray screen? |
| 61855 | You, Fanning-- what''s happened? 61855 ***** A wallet in young Carson''s cubby, with a map in it? 61855 ***** Not much of a prize, our little commercial liner_ Seven Stars_ this voyage? 61855 A clever fellow, that Chameleon-- but I like the Phantom bandit better, do n''t you? |
| 61855 | A modern version of the ancient_ Flying Dutchman_ legend? |
| 61855 | A"ghost- vessel"attacking the liners? |
| 61855 | And then, would there be a flash of an electronic space- gun, weirdly from its unseen source? |
| 61855 | As I rushed back along the catwalk my horrified mind was clamoring with the vague thought: had Brenda operated that pressure- mechanism wrongly? |
| 61855 | Asteroid-9? |
| 61855 | At what? |
| 61855 | Brenda? |
| 61855 | But a map of what? |
| 61855 | But if ever a chance should come for escape--"In the pressure chamber,"I whispered,"would there be pressure suits? |
| 61855 | But of what use against an enemy you could n''t see? |
| 61855 | But the girl-- protecting someone she loved? |
| 61855 | But what could any of that have to do with the Phantom raider, or the attack on the patrolship and the impending attack upon us? |
| 61855 | Captain Wilkes, Controlman Kellogg, Purser Green, the crew, the passengers-- where were they all? |
| 61855 | Could he drop faster than I was dropping? |
| 61855 | Could it overtake us? |
| 61855 | Did he by any chance know the contents of the_ Seven Stars''_ cargo, this voyage? |
| 61855 | Did he see me? |
| 61855 | Did that mean that Brenda Carson and her brother were still on the forward peak? |
| 61855 | Did you ever read of Captain Kidd, so long ago? |
| 61855 | For other things which might be incriminating? |
| 61855 | From their father? |
| 61855 | Had Philip Carson vanished? |
| 61855 | Had he been building the phantom space- raider? |
| 61855 | Had he seen me coming down above him? |
| 61855 | He quickly said,"Asteroid-9? |
| 61855 | His invention an X- flyer endowed with mechanical, electronic invisibility? |
| 61855 | Little Deimos? |
| 61855 | Mars? |
| 61855 | On Earth? |
| 61855 | Or had someone on the catwalk, at the controls there, done it? |
| 61855 | Or would he believe me? |
| 61855 | Or would you?" |
| 61855 | Romantic idea, eh Fanning?" |
| 61855 | Romantic life, eh?" |
| 61855 | Searching for his map? |
| 61855 | Should I take this to Captain Wilkes? |
| 61855 | Terror? |
| 61855 | The crash of our hull, or our pressure- dome exploding outward; the wild rush and hiss of our air out into the vacuum of space? |
| 61855 | The map? |
| 61855 | The_ Seven Stars_ not much of a prize? |
| 61855 | They could n''t find him? |
| 61855 | Want to see them, Fanning?" |
| 61855 | Was I overtaking him? |
| 61855 | Was he watching these windows of Carson and the girl? |
| 61855 | Was her father really the Phantom raider? |
| 61855 | Was that Andros, a landmark here? |
| 61855 | Was that it? |
| 61855 | Was that the name of one of the asteroid''s mountain peaks? |
| 61855 | Was the girl entangled because of him? |
| 61855 | Was the vanished eccentric Professor Robert Carson the Phantom raider? |
| 61855 | Was this where Carson had landed? |
| 61855 | Were Carson and his young sister after some treasure? |
| 61855 | Were these two spies, planted here on the_ Seven Stars_ by the phantom- bandits? |
| 61855 | Were they discussing the attack which Captain Wilkes and I feared? |
| 61855 | What chance had I against a layout like that? |
| 61855 | What do you want down here?" |
| 61855 | What good would it do? |
| 61855 | What was Carson''s plan? |
| 61855 | What was he doing in there? |
| 61855 | What, in Heaven''s name, could that mean? |
| 61855 | Where did he expect to go? |
| 61855 | Where was Carson? |
| 61855 | Where were we going? |
| 61855 | Where? |
| 61855 | Would his forepeak dome hold? |
| 61855 | Would it serve as an excuse? |
| 61855 | Would news of it have leaked out? |
| 61855 | Would the Phantom of the Starways attack the_ Seven Stars_ for just that purpose? |
| 61855 | Would the outer shell of our dome crack? |
| 61855 | Would the raging Jerome stab at me now with a heat- bolt? |
| 61855 | You do, eh Carson?" |
| 61855 | You think we can do it safely?" |
| 61810 | All of them, Tara? |
| 61810 | And me? |
| 61810 | And so now,I said,"since your father''s death, you are ruler here?" |
| 61810 | And there is no crime here? 61810 And with a pick and shovel we dig it out?" |
| 61810 | And you have no crime here? |
| 61810 | And you were on that expedition too? |
| 61810 | Are we supposed to descend through that? |
| 61810 | Can I sit with you? |
| 61810 | Eh? 61810 Going to slow us some more, Doc?" |
| 61810 | Good work, was n''t it, Jim? |
| 61810 | How can you tell? |
| 61810 | I ca n''t get used to it yet-- wonderful, sort of frightening, is n''t it? |
| 61810 | I did something worthwhile-- in my new world-- didn''t I? 61810 I''m going to stay there, John-- understand? |
| 61810 | If he isn''t-- Good Lord, are you going to let him just lie there? |
| 61810 | If you''ll let me explain--"And you? |
| 61810 | In what form do we expect to find it? 61810 Is Dr. Livingston dead?" |
| 61810 | Let me ask you,he said,"have you ever heard of Xalite?" |
| 61810 | Looks quite a bit bigger now, does n''t it? |
| 61810 | Not-- hurt them? |
| 61810 | Nothing ever goes wrong? 61810 Now,"he said,"we''re about ready, are n''t we? |
| 61810 | Now-- do you want some rest? 61810 Of course, what would one expect? |
| 61810 | Oh, you, Alan? |
| 61810 | So I understand you came here to get what it is you call Xalite? |
| 61810 | So what can I do? |
| 61810 | So you all three have decided to be murderers? |
| 61810 | Tara? 61810 The Great Change?" |
| 61810 | The cold, on Zura-- you never felt it? |
| 61810 | The only man in my world-- I could n''t do anything wrong then, could I? |
| 61810 | What do you see? |
| 61810 | What has this to do with us, and Xalite? |
| 61810 | What is it? |
| 61810 | What is it? |
| 61810 | What will he do? |
| 61810 | What''s that screen show? 61810 What?" |
| 61810 | Where are we? 61810 Which is it, your language?" |
| 61810 | Which one of you is leader here? |
| 61810 | Why not? 61810 Why, that''s easy, is n''t it, Alan? |
| 61810 | Why-- why, what is this? |
| 61810 | You are the leader of your men? |
| 61810 | You have no objection if I see, have you? |
| 61810 | You need my help now? 61810 You realize the need of secrecy?" |
| 61810 | You see it? 61810 You think I want to live here on this God- forsaken little world-- and die maybe in a day? |
| 61810 | You were taught to hate all earth- people, were n''t you, Tara? |
| 61810 | You''ll stay on watch? |
| 61810 | You''re too warm, Tara? |
| 61810 | You-- the young one-- what is your name? |
| 61810 | A human girl? |
| 61810 | A leaderless mob? |
| 61810 | A thousand miles up? |
| 61810 | And then what?" |
| 61810 | And you?" |
| 61810 | And young Grant, boyish multiple murderer, whom now I had come somehow to like-- what was it that he had wanted to tell me? |
| 61810 | At which side had we best approach? |
| 61810 | By what incredible science could it be that she was fashioned like a beautiful young earthgirl? |
| 61810 | Can you tell how pure it is with your instruments? |
| 61810 | Do I seem prefacing some weighty analysis of mankind''s frailties? |
| 61810 | Do n''t you see how it fits with our plans for the_ Planeteer_?" |
| 61810 | Everyone always does everything exactly right?" |
| 61810 | Fear that we might not land safely? |
| 61810 | Had Carruthers, Duroh and Alan contrived to be released? |
| 61810 | Had something moved off there? |
| 61810 | How shall I describe my first strange talk with Tara? |
| 61810 | I added:"Those friends of mine-- what did you do with them? |
| 61810 | I killed one of your men-- what in the hell did they dare set upon us for? |
| 61810 | I wonder why my glance, like his, strayed idly to our moonlit window oval, here on the ground floor of his home? |
| 61810 | III"You think we should approach from this side, John?" |
| 61810 | If it''s in a pretty pure state, we wo n''t need so much, will we? |
| 61810 | Is it now what my father feared that always it would be?" |
| 61810 | Kill them?" |
| 61810 | Men? |
| 61810 | Nobody does anything wrong? |
| 61810 | Or go back to Earth? |
| 61810 | Pretty pure? |
| 61810 | So you are a thief? |
| 61810 | Strange good news? |
| 61810 | Tara what?" |
| 61810 | That the idea, Taine?" |
| 61810 | The thought stabbed at me: Had the crafty Carruthers contrived this? |
| 61810 | They obey you?" |
| 61810 | This atmosphere-- would we be able to breathe it; or would our air- masks be necessary? |
| 61810 | V"So what are you going to do with me?" |
| 61810 | Was it rock, or metal? |
| 61810 | Was it that subconsciously she realized the irony of her violence, and was ashamed that I should see it? |
| 61810 | Was she real-- or had our fancy tricked us? |
| 61810 | Was that irony on his weird, grimacing face? |
| 61810 | Was that their plan for me? |
| 61810 | We''ve left the earth, have n''t we? |
| 61810 | Were deposits of the precious metal widespread over the little asteroid? |
| 61810 | Were there others like her here? |
| 61810 | Were they? |
| 61810 | What was this? |
| 61810 | What weird, beautiful priestess was this? |
| 61810 | Where were they taking us? |
| 61810 | Who was murdered?" |
| 61810 | Would it be found only in a gaseous state, perhaps, so that we could not secure it? |
| 61810 | Xalite in quantity beyond anyone''s wildest dreams--""Where?" |
| 61810 | You understand?" |
| 50022 | And what''s his address? |
| 50022 | And what? |
| 50022 | And when did you sleep? |
| 50022 | And why,he went on,"why send a complex message if they only wanted to say that they were space travelers on the way to Earth?" |
| 50022 | Are you all right? |
| 50022 | Are you offering to be a brother to me now? |
| 50022 | But if the garrison went to Earth,she said dubiously,"what became of them? |
| 50022 | But only six deliveries? 50022 Ca n''t you see? |
| 50022 | Can that air- lock be opened from outside? |
| 50022 | Can we go with you? |
| 50022 | Can you tell me what the signals are about? |
| 50022 | Did he say enough for you to sue him? |
| 50022 | Did you or Keller find out how the air''s refreshed here? 50022 Did you-- hear that?" |
| 50022 | Do n''t you think I''ve noticed? |
| 50022 | Do you feel like you''re riding with a lunatic? |
| 50022 | Do you know what I''m thinking? |
| 50022 | How do you know? |
| 50022 | How does it work? |
| 50022 | How''d they come? 50022 How''ll you look for them?" |
| 50022 | I know we have to go out over the north magnetic pole, but how the hell do I find that? |
| 50022 | If this shows no sign of working, Sandy...."What? |
| 50022 | If you try to put us out,said Sandy calmly,"you''ll have to open that door and they''ll try to fight their way in-- and then where''ll you be?" |
| 50022 | Is it really so bad? |
| 50022 | Is this working night and day a part of your reaction to those signals? |
| 50022 | Nothing on communication with base? |
| 50022 | Now what do we do? |
| 50022 | Of what? |
| 50022 | Radar? |
| 50022 | Rocket? |
| 50022 | Sandy? |
| 50022 | Shall I answer,asked Pam,"or shall I be discreetly sympathetic? |
| 50022 | So? |
| 50022 | Still coming in? |
| 50022 | That''s part of the broadcast from space that changes-- is it still changing? |
| 50022 | The important thing is, am I crazy or not? |
| 50022 | The signals? |
| 50022 | The way I''m acting does n''t make sense, does it? |
| 50022 | They do n''t mention shooting rockets at us, do they? |
| 50022 | We go up now? |
| 50022 | Well? |
| 50022 | Well? |
| 50022 | What about it? |
| 50022 | What can you do with a man like that? |
| 50022 | What do you know about the weapons? |
| 50022 | What do you think I worry about? |
| 50022 | What does this mean? |
| 50022 | What have you found, Keller? |
| 50022 | What is it, Joe? |
| 50022 | What is it? |
| 50022 | What is it? |
| 50022 | What the hell''s happened to her? 50022 What''ll we do now, Joe?" |
| 50022 | What''s to be done about that? |
| 50022 | What? |
| 50022 | What? |
| 50022 | What? |
| 50022 | When did you eat last? |
| 50022 | Where will the globes meet them? |
| 50022 | Where''d they go? 50022 Where''s Keller?" |
| 50022 | Where''s Pam? |
| 50022 | Who would? |
| 50022 | Who''d come down here? 50022 Who''s Keller?" |
| 50022 | Why do I bother with him? |
| 50022 | Why not look in the library? |
| 50022 | Why the hole, really? |
| 50022 | Why? |
| 50022 | Why? |
| 50022 | Why? |
| 50022 | Wo n''t anyone believe I smelled fresh air yesterday? |
| 50022 | Yes? |
| 50022 | You mean those signals from somewhere mean something special to you? |
| 50022 | You mean you''ll let him inside? |
| 50022 | You saw movements you could n''t identify in the vision- plates? 50022 You see, Pam?" |
| 50022 | You''ve got that hand- weapon? 50022 And how could any man doze or sleep for the purpose of learning such desperately needed data? 50022 And how could they supply the building of a place like this? |
| 50022 | And in billions of earth- bound minds the horror grew.... For how could man, who had not yet claimed the moon, defy a challenge from the stars? |
| 50022 | And she''ll get you fired and what then?" |
| 50022 | And what could he and Holmes and Keller do against such a fleet, even with the fortress, when they did not yet understand a single one of its weapons? |
| 50022 | And what kind of cube would they take? |
| 50022 | And what will being decent to that unshaven Adonis get you? |
| 50022 | And where are they? |
| 50022 | Are you still trying to do something about the space signals?" |
| 50022 | Burke said, sitting up,"Why''d you do that, Sandy?" |
| 50022 | Burke went into the instrument- room as Sandy was asking,"But how did they? |
| 50022 | But Joe, how did it happen?" |
| 50022 | But how could a race with nothing better than rockets ever get here? |
| 50022 | But if he''s as scared as I am, why does n''t he worry about going places alone?" |
| 50022 | But what was the cause of this erroneous report from the new device? |
| 50022 | But why? |
| 50022 | But wo n''t you please give me copies of the orders you''ve placed so I can check what arrives?" |
| 50022 | Ca n''t you tell me what all this is about?" |
| 50022 | Could a few dozen survivors of Earth hope to make their way to the asteroid and survive there? |
| 50022 | Could the Romans left behind at Hadrian''s Wall keep up the culture of Rome? |
| 50022 | Did anybody throw a switch for air apparatus?" |
| 50022 | Did things like this catch Pam?" |
| 50022 | Did you actually say you had some coffee?" |
| 50022 | Did you ever drive at night, and have all the stars come in pairs like snake- eyes-- like little mean eyes, lookin''down at you an''despisin''you? |
| 50022 | Did you notice that they came when it ought to be my lunchtime? |
| 50022 | Did you say five hundred light- years?" |
| 50022 | Do you hear what I do?" |
| 50022 | Do you know what I think they are?" |
| 50022 | Do you know what they''d take?" |
| 50022 | Do you remember that dream of yours? |
| 50022 | Do you want to call Washington?" |
| 50022 | Does n''t it occur to you, Joe, that we''ve only partly explored the top half of the fortress? |
| 50022 | Doing what? |
| 50022 | For that matter, what was the purpose of the asteroid itself? |
| 50022 | From where? |
| 50022 | From whom? |
| 50022 | Funny, is n''t it?" |
| 50022 | Get after these people on long distance, will you?" |
| 50022 | Get that figured out for us, will you?" |
| 50022 | Have you a match?" |
| 50022 | Have you found any sign?" |
| 50022 | Have you seen a place before where men lived without writings in its public places? |
| 50022 | He probably stepped on the plate because it was brightly lighted and--""You''ve got your pistol?" |
| 50022 | He said,"What the hell?" |
| 50022 | His recurrent dream? |
| 50022 | Holmes growled,"If they miss, what then?" |
| 50022 | Holmes said,"Yes? |
| 50022 | Holmes, still pale, asked,"How''d we get away from that rocket?" |
| 50022 | How did the air get renewed? |
| 50022 | How did the garrison leave? |
| 50022 | How did they manage?" |
| 50022 | How do you fasten this door?" |
| 50022 | How handy would a manual about repairing a weapon be, if somebody had to take a nap to get instructions? |
| 50022 | How many little shelves with boxes on them have we seen? |
| 50022 | How many of us would be alive?" |
| 50022 | How much money have I in the bank? |
| 50022 | How useful would they be if one had to doze off to read them? |
| 50022 | How was the asteroid normally supplied? |
| 50022 | I wonder where? |
| 50022 | If a few spaceships could be completed and take off before the solar system shattered, would the asteroid be shattered too? |
| 50022 | If there''s a spaceship on the way here, why warn us? |
| 50022 | If they intend to be enemies, why throw away the advantage of surprise? |
| 50022 | If we live through this, will you?" |
| 50022 | Is this place reasonable?" |
| 50022 | Keller said mildly,"What did he do?" |
| 50022 | Keller said suddenly,"Where would service manuals be?" |
| 50022 | Keller, can you give me a microphone and a wavelength somebody will be likely to pick up?" |
| 50022 | Meantime, why panic?" |
| 50022 | Or do I take it for granted that you will?--if we live through this?" |
| 50022 | Or were they a command too terrible to think about? |
| 50022 | Pam said,"Did you hear that growl when I said I''d go to the movies with somebody else? |
| 50022 | Pam said,"Is that an invitation to look on at the kill?" |
| 50022 | Right?" |
| 50022 | Sandy panted,"Did you find her? |
| 50022 | See, where the patch of white is?" |
| 50022 | Should I ask you again to marry me? |
| 50022 | Should the coming doom be revealed to the world? |
| 50022 | Take care of them for me, will you?" |
| 50022 | The one he''d known as a child had belonged to a Cro- Magnon tribesman ten thousand, twenty thousand, how many years ago? |
| 50022 | Then he said urgently,"Broadcast?" |
| 50022 | Then she demanded indignantly,"Has Joe looked at you twice since this nonsense started?" |
| 50022 | Turn it on, will you?" |
| 50022 | Wait for me in the ship?" |
| 50022 | Were the cubes? |
| 50022 | Were the sounds a plea for help? |
| 50022 | What activated this mechanism of so many eons ago? |
| 50022 | What became of them? |
| 50022 | What could Earth do against a fleet which dared attack this asteroid? |
| 50022 | What could be done about the Enemy ships? |
| 50022 | What could be done to save lives? |
| 50022 | What good would be voyages that lasted ten, twenty, or fifty years each way? |
| 50022 | What had it been built for? |
| 50022 | What happened to the people who lived on them?" |
| 50022 | What happened to them?" |
| 50022 | What is it? |
| 50022 | What race had built this stronghold? |
| 50022 | What say?" |
| 50022 | What unimaginable power were they defending against? |
| 50022 | What were they expected to do? |
| 50022 | What were they here for? |
| 50022 | What will happen when objects with the mass of suns-- artificial or otherwise-- come riding through between our sun and its planets? |
| 50022 | What''s happened?" |
| 50022 | What''s the matter with looking for a matter- transposer?" |
| 50022 | What''s the matter?" |
| 50022 | What''s this?" |
| 50022 | When she cried out? |
| 50022 | When she saw Pam, inside, she said shakily,"Is-- anybody else here?" |
| 50022 | Where did it come from? |
| 50022 | Where did it go? |
| 50022 | Where had Pam been last? |
| 50022 | Where were Holmes and Sandy when they missed her? |
| 50022 | Which cube do I try it with, or do I use all of them?" |
| 50022 | Who were those waited- for visitors expected to be? |
| 50022 | Why had they cut off communication? |
| 50022 | Why not put it at the ship- lock where people could be expected to come?" |
| 50022 | Why should somebody out in space send us a broadcast? |
| 50022 | Why was it abandoned? |
| 50022 | Why''d they write it?" |
| 50022 | Why? |
| 50022 | Why?" |
| 50022 | Will you fix one for Pam and one for me so that they do?" |
| 50022 | Will you look and see if there are any tools there that might be better than this? |
| 50022 | Would they? |
| 50022 | You''ve seen that, ai n''t you? |