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Title: The Sky Is Falling

Author: Lester del Rey

Release Date: July 6, 2006 [EBook #18768]

Language: English

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THE SKY IS FALLING

By
LESTER DEL REY

[Illustration: THE SKY IS FALLING
WHEN MEN RULED THE STARS--AND THE STARS RULED MEN!]

Transcriber note: Extensive research did not uncover any
evidence that the copyright on this publication was renewed.

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Dave stared around the office. He went to the window and stared
upwards at the crazy patchwork of the sky. For all he knew, in
such a sky there might be cracks. In fact, as he looked, he
could make out a rift, and beyond that a ... hole ... a small
patch where there was no color, and yet the sky there was not
black. There were no stars there, though points of light were
clustered around the edges, apparently retreating.

* * * * *

THE SKY
IS FALLING

By
LESTER DEL REY

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Copyright (C) 1954, 1963 by Galaxy Publishing Corp.

A shorter and earlier version of this story appeared as "No More Stars"
under the pseudonym of Charles Satterfield in _Beyond Fantasy Fiction_
for July, 1954

_First Ace printing: January, 1973_

* * * * *

THE SKY IS FALLING

I

"Dave Hanson! By the power of the true name be summoned cells and
humors, ka and id, self and--"

Dave Hanson! The name came swimming through utter blackness, sucking at
him, pulling him together out of nothingness. Then, abruptly, he was
aware of being alive, and surprised. He sucked in on the air around him,
and the breath burned in his lungs. He was one of the dead--there should
be no quickening of breath within him!