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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Warrior Race, by Robert Sheckley 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: Warrior Race Author: Robert Sheckley Illustrator: Scattergood Release Date: July 30, 2009 [EBook #29548] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WARRIOR RACE *** Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: Illustrated by SCATTERGOOD] By ROBERT SHECKLEY WARRIOR RACE _Destroying the spirit of the enemy is the goal of war and the aliens had the best way!_ They never did discover whose fault it was. Fannia pointed out that if Donnaught had had the brains of an ox, as well as the build, he would have remembered to check the tanks. Donnaught, although twice as big as him, wasn't quite as fast with an insult. He intimated, after a little thought, that Fannia's nose might have obstructed his reading of the fuel gauge. This still left them twenty light-years from Thetis, with a cupful of transformer fuel in the emergency tank. "All right," Fannia said presently. "What's done is done. We can squeeze about three light-years out of the fuel before we're back on atomics. Hand me _The Galactic Pilot_--unless you forgot that, too." Donnaught dragged the bulky microfilm volume out of its locker, and they explored its pages. _The Galactic Pilot_ told them they were in a sparse, seldom-visited section of space, which they already knew. The nearest planetary system was Hatterfield; no intelligent life there. Sersus had a native population, but no refueling facilities. The same with Illed, Hung and Porderai. "Ah-ha!" Fannia said. "Read that, Donnaught. If you can read, that is." "Cascella," Donnaught read, slowly and clearly, following the line with a thick forefinger. "Type M sun. Three planets, intelligent (AA3C) human-type life on second. Oxygen-breathers. Non-mechanical. Religious. Friendly. Unique social structure, described in Galactic Survey Report 33877242. Population estimate: stable at three billion. Basic Cascellan vocabulary taped under Cas33b2. Scheduled for resurvey 2375 A.D. Cache of transform
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