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Title: All Cats Are Gray

Author: Andre Alice Norton

Release Date: June 1, 2009 [EBook #29019]

Language: English

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| This story was published in _Fantastic Universe Science |
| Fiction_, August-September 1953. Extensive research did not |
| uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this |
| publication was renewed. |
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_An odd story, made up of oddly assorted elements that include a man,
a woman, a black cat, a treasure--and an invisible being that had to
be seen to be believed._

all
cats
are
gray

_by ... Andrew North_

Under normal conditions a whole person has a decided advantage
over a handicapped one. But out in deep space the normal may
be reversed--for humans at any rate.

Steena of the spaceways--that sounds just like a corny title for one of
the Stellar-Vedo spreads. I ought to know, I've tried my hand at writing
enough of them. Only this Steena was no glamour babe. She was as
colorless as a Lunar plant--even the hair netted down to her skull had a
sort of grayish cast and I never saw her but once draped in anything but
a shapeless and baggy gray space-all.

Steena was strictly background stuff and that is where she mostly spent
her free hours--in the smelly smoky background corners of any
stellar-port