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Title: Four-Day Planet

Author: Henry Beam Piper

Release Date: October 6, 2006 [EBook #19478]

Language: English

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Four-Day Planet

by H. Beam Piper

SF
ace books
A Division of Charter Communications Inc.
A GROSSET & DUNLAP COMPANY
360 Park Avenue South
New York, New York 10010

Copyright (C) 1961 by H. Beam Piper

_Cover art by Michael Whelan_

* * * * *

DEDICATION

For Betty and Vall, with
loving remembrance

* * * * *

CONTENTS

1. The Ship from Terra

2. Reporter Working

3. Bottom Level

4. Main City Level

5. Meeting Out of Order

6. Elementary, My Dear Kivelson

7. Aboard the _Javelin_

8. Practice, 50-MM Gun

9. Monster Killing

10. Mayday, Mayday

11. Darkness and Cold

12. Castaways Working

13. The Beacon Light

14. The Rescue

15. Vigilantes

16. Civil War Postponed

17. Tallow-Wax Fire

18. The Treason of Bish Ware

19. Masks Off

20. Finale

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Four-Day Planet

1

THE SHIP FROM TERRA

I went through the gateway, towing my equipment in a contragravity
hamper over my head. As usual, I was wondering what it would take,
short of a revolution, to get the city of Port Sandor as clean and
tidy and well lighted as the spaceport area. I knew Dad's editorials
and my sarcastic news stories wou