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-ely on public, transport he if, he had been asked to I ie trip. He hated
the would have refused to make tl
ed clanking, sooty, coal-burning nnitficarriers crowd,
He hated surwith their surly Civil Service attendants the
a,, fnding the , contrast between face travel in gener Ithe
decaying planot clean, empty reaches of space and to be almost nauseous.
-er, hold a-belligere"t
not, a, He did did many spac s@ter all, the source,
She was, af contempt for old Earth. Ithe mother of all. the only
source Of many things ndone
She r eked and rotted and continued to CO horne. ,e of Goethe7s man,
so admirable in the overproduction
so deplorable in his mass,* He did not the individual, only
her peoPle- He feel contempt for Earth herself,
e by growling obscenities as he showed his impatienc: at the side
pf the two was forced to the blown dunes rema* ling lanes of what once had
been a f0ur-lane su-
h passage of a big drone cargo carperhighway to allow
ehead as he rier.
He mopped perspiration from his for
then steered the antique, waited for the drone to clear, ad. The auto7s
air-conauto back onto the potholed ro riot too neatly, leavditioning unit
had been removed, lining had ing a gaping hole in the dash.,
Most of the
tom from the vehicles roof, leaving only,a. thin been
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2 Zach Hughes, ' layer of metal between him and the desert
sun. The en-
gine, modified to bum methane, stank, coughed, wheezed, and strained as he
tried to regain speed. The poorly engineered tank on the back of the car was
definitely not aerodynamic. The dry cross wind made handling a nightmare when,
by coaxing and cursing and pushing to the limit, he once again attained fifty
miles per hour.