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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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So
Eros
was
their
destination!
Eros,
one
of
the
asteroids,
those
tiny
fragments
of
a
broken
planet,
lying
outside
the
orbit
of
Mars.
Some
of
these
little
worlds,
of
which
more
than
a
thousand
are
known
to
exist,
are
no
larger
than
a
gentleman's
country
estate;
some
are
mere
rocks
in
space.
Eros,
Nat
knew,
was
distinguished
among
them
from
the
fact
that
it
had
an
eccentric
orbit,
which
brought
it
at
times
nearer
Earth
than
any
other
heavenly
body
except
the
Moon.
Also
that
it
had
only
been
known
for
thirty
years,
and
that
it
was
supposed
to
be
a
double
planet,
having
a
dark
companion.
That
was
in
Nat's
mind
as
he
ascended
the
bridge
to
where
Axelson
was
standing
at
the
controls,
with
one
of
the
graybeards
beside
him.
The
door
of
his
stateroom
was
open,
and
suddenly
there
scuttled
out
of
it
one
of
the
most
bestial
objects
Nat
had
ever
seen.
It
was
a
Moon
woman,
a
dwarfish
figure,
clothed
in
a
shapeless
garment
of
spun
cellulose,
and
in
her
arms
she
held
a
heavy-headed
Moon
baby,
whose
huge
chest
stood
up
like
a
pyramid,
while
the
tiny
arms
and
legs
hung
dangling
down.
"Here
is
the
bourgeois,
Kommandant,"
said
Nat's
captor.
Axelson
looked
at
Nat,
eye
meeting
eye
in
a
slow
stare.
Then
he
relinquished
the
controls
to
the
graybeard
beside
him,
and
motioned
Nat
to
precede
him
into
the
stateroom.
Nat
entered.
It
was
an
ordinary
room,
much
like
that
of
the
captain
of
the
ether-liner
now
stranded
on
the
Moon.
There
were
a
bunk,
chairs,
a
desk
and
a
radio
receiver.
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