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Project Gutenberg's The Giants From Outer Space, by Geoff St. Reynard This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Giants From Outer Space Author: Geoff St. Reynard Release Date: May 23, 2010 [EBook #32485] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GIANTS FROM OUTER SPACE *** Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net The Giants From Outer Space By Geoff St. Reynard [Transcriber Note: This etext was produced from Imagination May 1954. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] [Sidenote: Grim terror lurked in the void many light years from Earth. But Pinkham and his men were unaware of it--until suddenly they discovered--The Giants From Outer Space] CHAPTER I "Okay, make another check on the reading." "I've made four checks already--" "Damn it, make another!" "It's no use, Pink. The life-scanner's never wrong." "No possibility of a monkey wrench dropped into its innards? It couldn't be seeing things that aren't there?" "Not in a million years." "Then there's no water, no air, no gravity worth mentioning, and still--" "That's right. There's life on that silly-looking little apple. _There's somebody sitting on it!_" In the ninetieth star system to be explored by the insatiably curious men of Earth, there were seven planets. Between the fourth and fifth from the star there was a belt of asteroids: some three or four thousand tiny planetary bodies traveling in vast ellipses around the star. At one time they had probably constituted a single planet, but some unimaginable explosion far back in time had scattered the great ball broadcast, and the largest of the resulting planetoids was now no more than 440 miles across. In the gargantuan belt of them, many were no bigger in diameter than the spaceship _Elephant's Child_ herself. When the instruments of the ship detected this belt of asteroids, Captain Pinkham turned aside as a matter of course, to cruise through it and let his cartographer map it, his organi
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