"Raymond Z. Gallun - Saturn's Ringmaster" - читать интересную книгу автора (Gallun Raymond Z)

Helplessly Marooned in Space, Earthman and Uranian
Devise a Cunning Trap for an Interplanetary Outlaw!




Then Bradlow saw the ships of his following burst
apart with a dazzling flare of light



SATURNтАЩS
RINGMASTER
By RAYMOND Z. GALLUN
Author of тАЬOld Faithful,тАЭ тАЬDerelict,тАЭ etc.



тАЬY OUтАЩRE licked, Raff Orethon. The justified, my friend. If you and that ridiculous
new Esar repulsion shield will Uranian mascot of yours resorted to suicide, I am
protect me and my people, not the certain that you would save yourselves much
Titanian colony. I could kill you now, but to do so anguish of mind. That is all. Korse Bradlow, the
would be a waste of effort, since you are already Ringmaster, has other business. Goodbye, trouble
as good as dead. Sometimes self-murder is shooter! Farewell!тАЭ

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Raymond Z. Gallun SaturnтАЩs Ringmaster Thrilling Wonder, December, 1936

Raff Orethon, strapped in the wrecked cabin gifted with some touch of poetic humor, had
of his spaceboat, was dimly aware of the words called himself the Ringmaster. And he had acted
that clicked faintly in the etherphones of his promptly. Approaching from the rear, he had
oxygen helmet. His faculties were still numb from disabled RaffтАЩs flier with a protonic blast, and had
the crash. In them there was room for scarcely caused it to dive into the Rings, where it had been
more than one thoughtтАФhe had failed. smashed against a meteor. The fact that Orethon
Foggily he saw Korse Bradlow creep over had survived the collision, was one of those
the rusty surface of the meteor against which the strange tricks of relativity.
ruined spaceboat was telescoped. He saw him The meteor, hurtling around Saturn at a
straighten up, holding the metal box which velocity of many miles per second, had been
contained the pilfered Esar models tightly against going just a shade slower than the uncontrolled
the side of his vacuum armor. He saw Bradlow ship, and in the same direction. And so Raff and
jump athletically clear of the great lump of cosmic his weird companion still lived. And because they
refuse, catch the door-rail of his own gaudily were harmless and half stunned and the death by
gilded ship floating free in the ether, open the suffocation which was in store for them appealed
valve, and disappear into the interior. to his sadistic nature, Bradlow had let them live.
A moment later the rockets of the golden But he had taken the Esar models from them.
craft spat blasts of incandescent flame, and it Young Orethon could grasp all the details of
hurtled away, clear of the immeasurably frosty the situation now.
glory of SaturnтАЩs Rings. Its form dwindled swiftly Dazedly he looked down at the large fibrotex
among the brittle stars. pocket on the front of his space suit. It bulged
тАЬWhat are we going to do now, Orethon?тАЭ with abhorrent contents.