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Spaceship, issue 10, October 1950
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NEGATIVE SOLUTION PAGE 8 by--RICHARD K. VERDAN THE FIRST FLIGHT outside of the galaxy was made on May 19, 3062. The landing on the solitary planet of an unknown star in the Second Galaxy was effected on April 11, 3064. Remember that date! When Captain Macintyre, skipper of the Spaceship Ronthe XVII,, moved into his quarters of the ship on May 19, 3062, he noted the date in his log. He did the same on April 11, 3064, the day the first human stepped out to gaze on the bronze glow of the rocks ofthe lonely, deserted planet. The crew spent two days searching every corner of the dead world. A world long dead, curling in itsorbit around the embers of a dying, smouldering sun. They looked carefully and far. When they returned, two days after April 11, the date on the Autochron calendar in the control room was, of course, April 13. The crew brought on board a number of small chunks of rock secured as souvenirs. But the next morning, still in its familiar spot, antennae exposed to the Ether, the calendar was dated April 12, 3064! "That's impossible!", exclaimed Macintyre in surprise. "This calendar is geared to the timing of the great Etheric Drift itself! If that were wrong, the whole universe would be going backward...entropy[[?]]...space-time continua! Damn! The damned clock is probably broken! That night Macintyre spent an anxious five hours waiting for midnight and the coming of the next day. At one second past 12 the clock slowly whirred and, gleaming on its dials, was the date. April 11, 3064. Thoroughly shaken, Macintyre consulted his logbook. At 1:02 April 11 they had just landed on the Planet. Relieved, he thought, "There's just something wrong with the mechanism. We can't be running backward in time--if it's really April 11,we'd just be landing on the Planet an hour from now. And we've been traveling away from it for two days!" They met a strangely familiar-looking spaceship in mid-space and radioed to them. "What day is it on your calendar?" The reassuring answer was "April 13". At 1:02 everyone was awakened by a jolting bump as the Ronthe XVII landed on the solitary planet of a dark, unknown star. Stepping out of the ship in his spacesuit, Macintyre noticed a strangely similar ship across the way from them. Confused, he
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NEGATIVE SOLUTION PAGE 8 by--RICHARD K. VERDAN THE FIRST FLIGHT outside of the galaxy was made on May 19, 3062. The landing on the solitary planet of an unknown star in the Second Galaxy was effected on April 11, 3064. Remember that date! When Captain Macintyre, skipper of the Spaceship Ronthe XVII,, moved into his quarters of the ship on May 19, 3062, he noted the date in his log. He did the same on April 11, 3064, the day the first human stepped out to gaze on the bronze glow of the rocks ofthe lonely, deserted planet. The crew spent two days searching every corner of the dead world. A world long dead, curling in itsorbit around the embers of a dying, smouldering sun. They looked carefully and far. When they returned, two days after April 11, the date on the Autochron calendar in the control room was, of course, April 13. The crew brought on board a number of small chunks of rock secured as souvenirs. But the next morning, still in its familiar spot, antennae exposed to the Ether, the calendar was dated April 12, 3064! "That's impossible!", exclaimed Macintyre in surprise. "This calendar is geared to the timing of the great Etheric Drift itself! If that were wrong, the whole universe would be going backward...entropy[[?]]...space-time continua! Damn! The damned clock is probably broken! That night Macintyre spent an anxious five hours waiting for midnight and the coming of the next day. At one second past 12 the clock slowly whirred and, gleaming on its dials, was the date. April 11, 3064. Thoroughly shaken, Macintyre consulted his logbook. At 1:02 April 11 they had just landed on the Planet. Relieved, he thought, "There's just something wrong with the mechanism. We can't be running backward in time--if it's really April 11,we'd just be landing on the Planet an hour from now. And we've been traveling away from it for two days!" They met a strangely familiar-looking spaceship in mid-space and radioed to them. "What day is it on your calendar?" The reassuring answer was "April 13". At 1:02 everyone was awakened by a jolting bump as the Ronthe XVII landed on the solitary planet of a dark, unknown star. Stepping out of the ship in his spacesuit, Macintyre noticed a strangely similar ship across the way from them. Confused, he
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