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Title: Slingshot

Author: Irving W. Lande

Release Date: August 30, 2007 [eBook #22462]

Language: English

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SLINGSHOT
BY
IRVING W. LANDE

Illustrated by Emsh
The slingshot was, I believe, one of the few weapons of history that wasn't used in the last
war. That doesn't mean it won't be used in the next!


"Got a bogey at three o'clock high. Range about six hundred miles." Johnson spoke casually, but his
voice in the intercom was thin with tension.

Captain Paul Coulter, commanding Space Fighter 308, 58th Squadron, 33rd Fighter Wing, glanced up
out of his canopy in the direction indicated, and smiled to himself at the instinctive reaction. Nothing there
but the familiar starry backdrop, the moon far down to the left. If the light wasn't right, a ship might be
invisible at half a mile. He squeezed the throttle mike button. "Any IFF?"

"No IFF."

"O.K., let me know as soon as you have his course." Coulter squashed out his cigar and began his
cockpit check, grinning without humor as he noticed that his breathing had deepened and his palms were
moist on the controls. He looked down to make sure his radio was snug in its pocket on his leg; checked