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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
·
Various
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Anyway,
Frank
was
content.
So
was
Phaestra.
Tommy
swung
the
heavy
car
into
the
road
and
turned
toward
New
York,
alone
and
lonely--but
somehow
happy;
happy
for
his
friend.
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Earth,
the
Marauder
PART
TWO
OF
A
THREE-PART
NOVEL
By
Arthur
J.
Burks
[Sidenote:
Deep
in
the
gnome-infested
tunnels
of
the
Moon,
Sarka
and
Jaska
are
brought
to
Luar,
the
radiant
goddess
against
whose
minions
the
marauding
Earth
had
struck
in
vain.]
WHAT
HAS
GONE
BEFORE
The
Earth
was
dying.
Ever
since
Sarka
the
First,
king
of
scientists,
had
given
mankind
the
Secret
of
Life,
which
prolonged
life
indefinitely,
the
Earthlings
had
multiplied
beyond
all
count,
and
been
forced
to
burrow
deep
into
the
ground
and
high
into
the
air
in
the
desperate
search
for
the
mere
room
in
which
to
live.
There
was
much
civil
war.
The
plight
of
the
children
of
men
was
desperate.
Something
had
to
be
done.
Then
Sarka
the
Third
called
the
Spokesmen
of
the
Gens
of
Earth
around
him,
and
proposed
to
them
a
new
scheme
which
had
come
to
him
in
his
laboratory
atop
the
Himalayas.
He
would
swing
the
Earth
from
its
orbit!--send
it
careening
through
space
toward
the
Moon!--there
to
destroy
its
inhabitants
and
supplant
them
with
a
colony
of
Earthlings!
And
then
they
would
surge
on
to
Mars!
One
by
one
the
twelve
Spokesmen,
each
the
head
and
representative
of
the
teeming
trillions
comprising
his
Gens,
acceded.
Even
Dalis,
the
jealous
rival
of
Sarka,
finally
gave
his
sulky
consent.
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