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Spaceship, issue 10, October 1950
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PAGE NINE looked at his log. AT 3:03 his crew had first stepped out the rocks of the planet. At 3:03 the great sliding door of the other ship opened and a man stepped out, followed by several others. The men on Macintyre's ship turned a powerful searchbeam in all directions. As the light passed over the other ship, Macintyre could plainly see the name painted on the side. It read, "Ronthe XVII"! Without hesitation, the confused Macintyre and his crew left the planet once more for home, ignoring the newcomer. After traveling for two days, they met the "other ship". The calendar read April 13. Looking through the port windows, they discovered they had been circling the Planet for two days and the other ship had just left. Starting once more for home, Macintyre received a radio call from the other ship: "What day is it on your calendar?", asked the other ship. Macintyre replied, "April 13", and ran tired fingers through his hair. The next day, Macintyre's Autochron read "April 12". The day after that, April 11, Macintyre, baffled, felt his ship land on the Planet. So did the "other ship". Somehow, ship 1 had gained a day on ship two. Two Macintyres alighted, the second invisible to the first. Both watched men appear from a third ship and beam searchlights over the planet. 1000 April Elevens later, the sky was filled with ships, all with the same design and same name and same crew. With the exception of the third in relation to the second and first, all were completely oblivious to the one next it in inferior succession. In each was a Captain Macintyre, but in the "outermost" ship, the first to land on the planet, was a puzzled and frightened Macintyre who knew he was also in 999 other ships. One Macintyre was asking the onenext to it in superior succession what day it was. The one queried invariably replied "April 13". On the first ship it was April 11. The 1000th Macintyre kept track in his log of thenumber of times he landed on the planet on April 11, 3064 at 1:02 in the morning... The 10,000th Macintyre put another check down on his list of landings. It was the 10,000th. Because the 1000th Macintyre had been the first to keep such a list, there were lists in the possession of 9000 Macintyres, all identical save for number of checks. Each Macintyre, upon becoming the 1000th from first, began compiling such a list... One million April Elevens later, the same bottle of liquor had been opened and drained by the crew of Ronthe XVII-- Ship Number 1,000,000 fully a million times. But everytime April 11 3064 rolled around, the cook[[?]] on the millionth Ronthe took that bottle down and [[?]] it. Macintyre looked out at the 999,999 spaceships behind him, all carrying Macintyres and crews and calendars and liquor. Then a thought came to him:
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PAGE NINE looked at his log. AT 3:03 his crew had first stepped out the rocks of the planet. At 3:03 the great sliding door of the other ship opened and a man stepped out, followed by several others. The men on Macintyre's ship turned a powerful searchbeam in all directions. As the light passed over the other ship, Macintyre could plainly see the name painted on the side. It read, "Ronthe XVII"! Without hesitation, the confused Macintyre and his crew left the planet once more for home, ignoring the newcomer. After traveling for two days, they met the "other ship". The calendar read April 13. Looking through the port windows, they discovered they had been circling the Planet for two days and the other ship had just left. Starting once more for home, Macintyre received a radio call from the other ship: "What day is it on your calendar?", asked the other ship. Macintyre replied, "April 13", and ran tired fingers through his hair. The next day, Macintyre's Autochron read "April 12". The day after that, April 11, Macintyre, baffled, felt his ship land on the Planet. So did the "other ship". Somehow, ship 1 had gained a day on ship two. Two Macintyres alighted, the second invisible to the first. Both watched men appear from a third ship and beam searchlights over the planet. 1000 April Elevens later, the sky was filled with ships, all with the same design and same name and same crew. With the exception of the third in relation to the second and first, all were completely oblivious to the one next it in inferior succession. In each was a Captain Macintyre, but in the "outermost" ship, the first to land on the planet, was a puzzled and frightened Macintyre who knew he was also in 999 other ships. One Macintyre was asking the onenext to it in superior succession what day it was. The one queried invariably replied "April 13". On the first ship it was April 11. The 1000th Macintyre kept track in his log of thenumber of times he landed on the planet on April 11, 3064 at 1:02 in the morning... The 10,000th Macintyre put another check down on his list of landings. It was the 10,000th. Because the 1000th Macintyre had been the first to keep such a list, there were lists in the possession of 9000 Macintyres, all identical save for number of checks. Each Macintyre, upon becoming the 1000th from first, began compiling such a list... One million April Elevens later, the same bottle of liquor had been opened and drained by the crew of Ronthe XVII-- Ship Number 1,000,000 fully a million times. But everytime April 11 3064 rolled around, the cook[[?]] on the millionth Ronthe took that bottle down and [[?]] it. Macintyre looked out at the 999,999 spaceships behind him, all carrying Macintyres and crews and calendars and liquor. Then a thought came to him:
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