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Title: World Without War

Author: E. G. von Wald

Illustrator: Ed Emsh

Release Date: May 5, 2010 [EBook #32254]

Language: English

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World Without War

BY E. G. VON WALD

_Illustrated by Ed Emsh_

_Cooperation was all right back in the dark ages but this
was an era of super culture and hi-psi intelligence. And
love was no laughing matter. People who cooperated, even
biologically, were unlawful and...._

* * * * *

Mark knew he shouldn't stop. He was already late for Jennette's
birthday party, but the sight of three people out in the open like
this was too much.

He pulled around and hovered over the undulating flow of glassy magma,
frozen on its way to the long, dry Potomac river bed, with its shallow
caverns and fascinating mile-wide potholes. Just under an overhanging
cliff of half-vitrified soil were two cars, obviously damaged. The
three men were standing beside them.

Mark laughed out loud. It was not often that one found three people at
once. And so close to each other. The scene there, with the long,
slanting rays of milky sunlight glancing off the ribbing of the flats
and sparkling through the million brittle shards of collapsed debris,
filled him with a certain poetic exultation.

"By the stars," he murmured to himself happily.

Bubbling with good humor, he slipped down a little closer to the hole,
staying up hard against the overhanging cliff. He was feeling too
cheerful to use his rightful advantage over them, and decided to use a
handgun, since they had nothing better.