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The yellow and tangerine glider rose into the sky and climbed across the face of the storm-cloud. Fifty yards from the dark billows it was buffetted by the shifting air, but Manuel soared in and began to cut away at the dark face. Drops of black rain fell across the terrace at our feet. All she had was destroyed—not that she set store by possessions: that was man trait. Much more terrible was the knowledge that her Mentor had left her for ever; she had transgressed too badly to be forgiven this time. Lass for a long while cropped thistle and cacti. Then she ambled forward to seek the hairy creature she fondly—and a little condescendingly—regarded as her equal. But of the sloth there was no sign. Then, up ahead where the fence was broken, I saw Ratlit kicking gravel over the Edge. He was leaning against a lamppost, his shirt ballooning and collapsing at his back. J. G. hung his head in shame and moved sadly out into the companionway. Mrs. Klevity, I thought. Something bright.” Summer and winter the chemmy lab had a smell all its own, a sharp half-sweet nuance like the scent of dust magnified many times. It came from the storage shelves to the left of the door where bottles of chemicals stood in rows on shelves of dark orange wood. Here were sulphates and thiosulphates, oxides and hydroxides, phosphorus coiled like Devils spaghetti in its thick oil, shining miniature slagheaps of iodine. There were other things too, a microscope on loan from Biology next door, a balance, its brasswork shining butter-yellow from its protective case; and a crystal of CuSO4, meridian-bright in its tall vat. The jar in which the crystal hung stood on top of the highest shelf and seemed in itself to be a focus of light; reflections burned deep inside it like elongated turquoise suns. Her voice was like velvet.I have a date, Eddy—my rich uncle from Cambridge is in town. For the past five years the number of paperback books in the combined fantasy and science-fiction fields has held to a remarkably steady all-time high of 70 to 80 per year. From the looks of things, it will rise sharply this year. In short, we may expect more individual paperback books than issues of magazines this year—but the fact is that for the past two or three years, p-bshave been outselling magazines in total quantity. 60,000 copies is an exceptionally good circulation for an s-f magazine these days, I understand; but very few book publishers will issue a p-b without being able to sell atleast that many. The average paperback sale is probably somewhere between 90 and 100 thousand. KEITH ROBERTS:Anita, SciF, Sept.-Oct. August 6. He has the eyes of the possessed. I would guess that he is neither the first, nor the last, to visit the island. Anyway it doesnt matter. We ought to be independent. In the Kremlin, a powerfully built marshal blinked at the members of his staff. First acrobatics. Damn the law, shes worth it to me! Jim said. Cordice, those blue apes are human now. How else could they raid up here, kill this boy, carry off the women?” He spat. “We’ll drop you to seal the station, keep your hands clean. Leo and I’ll get the women.” How I was to find out by myself what this test was for a few paltry minutes perplexed me, until it occurred to me that I need only put my trust inwhat I now had, and perhaps it would already be influential enough to instruct me how to test it. It was time for a little self-exhortation. "I am straight— " I said to myself, "very straight." And I am strong, perhaps notvery, but ... quite? I feel certain that I am about to be— whatever it is that I am about to be. Bob is firmly convinced that if he, Bob, had been a recorded announcing machine, he would have suffered no distress. If he had been able to say, in a metallic voice,I am sor-ry, sir, but the ob-jec-tives of great-er customer ser-vice and banking ef-ficiency pre-clude my accepting your check with-out a prop-er de-pos-it slip, he would not have felt any embarrassment about the customers tirade. She took a deep breath. Fresh air seemed to flow over her. She had not faced the thought of night because she lacked the courage, but knew that when the time comes, a person can usually face what cant be avoided. But to be free of nights here while reveling in the days! The letter was a catalyst. I showed it to Marilyn Mayberry. She invited me out to dinner on the night before my physical. Bits of imagery from half-forgotten poems drifted through her mind; bits that conveyed only feebly the sense of the marvelous transformation that took shape as she looked out, letting her gaze project itself farther and farther toward infinity. She jerked out of an uncomfortable sleep; coming back to reality with the fretfulness of a child..
