"Mel Gilden - Zoot Marlow 3 - Tubular Android Superheroes" - читать интересную книгу автора (Gilden Mel)

For Ted Pedersen Who is, as far as I'm concerned, The Cat's Meow



CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
1. Sucking Sidewalk
2. Stormy Weather
3. Iron Will
4. Nuts From Hollywood
5. The Perfect Place
6. Knighten Daise of the Foreign Legion
7. Anecdotal Evidence
8. Everything but the Girl
9. You Can Fool All of the People Some of the Time
10. Truckers Do It All Night
11. Willville
12. Ur-Clues
13. Progress
14. Private Parts
15. He's Only Human
16. A Lot of Vacancies
17. Meet Max Toodemax
18. Home Is Where the Murder Is
19. Alone Again Again
20. Not Murder, Incorporated
21. Mondo Condo
22. Clue in a Bun
23. Burning Daylight
24. Come As You are
25. Room at the Top
26. The Dinosaur Waltz
27. Fully Equipped



INTRODUCTION
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A vacation was only one of the things I needed, but it was also the only thing on the list that seemed
likely. The other items involved having a lot of money or being taller. I of chocolate-covered coffee beans
to take home to T'toom. I'd paid off my father with the profits from the first load and this time I was
hoping to get a little ahead.
I was not only a little short of money, I was a little short. Period. I'm about average height for a
Toomler, which is to say I come up to the average Earth person's navel. We don't have navels on T'toom
either. What we do have is very long and sensitive noses. I'm the same un-healthy bone white as a
mushroom. Only on T'toom, that's healthy.
The past few weeks had been educational. In a lot of ways, education was my business as much as
trouble. I'd learned exactly how much damage Hawaiian UFO aliens can do if they put their minds, their
talents, and their highly developed but unusual senses of humor to it. Like me, they were not of this Earth;