"Murray Leinster - Space Platform" - читать интересную книгу автора (Leinster Murray)

There wasn't anything underneath but the clouds, and nothing overhead but the sky-
Suddenly threads of white smoke appeared, silhouetted against the silvery metal of an
approaching craft. They were not misty wisps of vapor; they were dense, sharply defined
rocket trails.
The pilot watched grimly, helplessly. "That craft shot rockets at us. If they're guided we're
stuck."
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BELMONT BOOKS тАв NEW YORK CITY
SPACE PIATFORM A BEIMONT BOOK-April 1965
Published by
Belmont Productions, Inc.
66 Leonard Street, New York, N. Y. 10013
┬й 1953, 1965 by Will F. Jenkins
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA



I
THERE WASN'T anything underneath but clouds, and there wasn't anything overhead but sky. Joe Kenmore
looked out the plane window past the co-pilot's shoulder. He stared ahead to where the sky and cloudbank
joinedтАФ many miles awayтАФand tried to picture the job before him. Back in the cargo-space of the plane
there were four big crates. They contained the pilot gyros for the most important object then being built on
Earth; an object that wouldn't work without them. It was Joe's job to take the highly specialized,
magnificently precise machinery to its destination, help to install it, and check it after it was installed.
He felt uneasy. Of course the pilot and co-pilotтАФthe only other people in the transport planeтАФknew their
stuff. Every imaginable precaution would be taken to make sure that a critically essential device like the
pilot gyro assembly would get safely where it belonged. It was being treated as if it were eggs instead of