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Title: A World Called Crimson

Author: Darius John Granger

Release Date: June 3, 2008 [EBook #25684]

Language: English

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_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