Lab
Library
Journal
Shop
Sign in
to keep
Share image
1
289
Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
·
Various
191
Instantly,
telepathically,
he
sought
to
gain
mental
contact
with
his
father.
"Father,
we
are
coming!"
he
said,
across
those
countless
miles.
"What
is
happening?"
For
a
full
minute
there
was
no
answer.
Then
it
came,
feeble,
broken,
weighted
with
fear;
but
it
was
a
thought-message,
unmistakably,
of
Sarka
the
Second.
"Hurry,
son!
Hurry!
For
Dalis
has
indeed
betrayed
us!
I
could
not
maintain
control
of
the
Earth
with
the
Beryls,
for
some
strange
catastrophe
has
destroyed
all
the
Beryls
in
the
area
Dalis
ruled!
The
shifting
of
positions
of
the
Earth
and
the
Moon
has
so
altered
the
relative
effects
of
the
pull
of
gravity
exerted
by
the
planets
that
Mars
has
been
brought
into
dangerous
proximity
to
us
and
is
already
so
close
that
her
ether-lights
are
playing
over
us!
Surely
you
must
be
able
to
see
them!
We
have
received
messages,
but
as
yet
I
have
only
been
partially
able
to
decode
them!
What
I
have
decoded,
however,
presages
catastrophe--for
I
am
sure
that
Mars
and
the
Moon
are
in
confederation,
and
that
the
Moon-people
have
deliberately
forced
us
into
contact
with
her
ally!"
Cold
fear
clutched
at
the
throat
of
Sarka
as
he
caught
the
message.
He
decided
not
to
tell
Jaska
for
the
moment.
He
looked
to
right
and
left,
at
the
aircars
on
either
side
of
him,
then
issued
his
commands.
"Faster!
Faster!
Be
prepared
to
land
in
the
area
of
the
Gens
of
Cleric,
as
close
as
possible
to
my
laboratory!"
A
strange,
awesome
sight,
that
flight
of
the
rebels
of
Dalis'
Gens
from
the
Moon
to
the
Earth--like
gleaming
stars
across
the
void.
Far
out
in
Space
they
fled
at
terrific
speed
through
almost
utter
darkness,
but
their
light
was
still
blinding,
lighting
the
way.
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
Start over
