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The Project Gutenberg EBook of A World Called Crimson, by Darius John Granger 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: A World Called Crimson Author: Darius John Granger Release Date: June 3, 2008 [EBook #25684] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A WORLD CALLED CRIMSON *** Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net _There was a boy and a girl and a strange new planet; the planet was alive with hideous dangers. But the boy and girl were very young and all Robin wanted to know was: "Who stole my doll?"_ A WORLD CALLED CRIMSON By DARIUS JOHN GRANGER _When the starship _Star of Fire_ collided with a meteor swarm six parsecs stellar north of the galactic hub in the year A.D. 2278, it lost its atmosphere within forty-five minutes. At first it was thought that every man, woman and child of the four thousand, one hundred and sixty-six aboard were lost, in this the greatest of all interstellar disasters. But as was discovered twenty years later in the Purcell exploration, this was not quite the case. (See PURCELL)_ _--from The ANNALS OF SPACE, Vol. 12_ * * * * * [Illustration: The Cyclops--not hungry at the moment--regarded Robin as a new toy.] It was the nasty little boy from B Deck who had stolen her doll. She hated him. He was horrid. She slipped out of their stateroom while her Mom and Dad were dressing for dinner. She'd find that horrid little boy on B Deck. She'd scratch his eyes out. Her name was Robin Sinclair and she was five years old and mad enough to throw the boy from B Deck out into space, only she didn't know how to go about that. She went down the companionway to B Deck, where the people dressed differently. The colors weren't as bright, somehow, the cloth not so fine. It was a major distinction in the eyes of a five-year-old girl, especially one who loved to run her fingers over fine synthetics and who even had a favorite color. Her favorite color was crimson. "'Scuse me, mister. Didja see a little boy
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