Tom W. Harris

Name: Flight Into the Unknown
Author: Tom W. Harris

Flight Into the Unknown

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“Flight Into the Unknown”, is a work by Tom W. Harris. It explores elements such as Krotzer, DiCredico and Bailey.

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Tom W. Harris, Flight Into the Unknown

“ Gently, Bailey's body felt the reassuring tug as centrifugal force duplicated a light gravity and the alarm bells in his nerves and glands stopped ringing. The hull of the ship became "down," and men walked instead of floating—walked on the walls and ceiling, too, like wheel-spokes radiating from the axis of spin.
"Over it?" asked DiCredico.
"I guess so. I'm sorry."
"Happens to all of us. Human body is made with a built-in, full-scale emergency response to falling—and lack of gravity is what triggers it. When you're awake you can consciously control it. ”

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Tom W. Harris, Flight Into the Unknown

“ Then one of the grey bats stirred, drew up its legs, and launched itself off the bulkhead. The others began to move. A laugh rolled in Bailey's throat. Like him, they had only been stunned.
They froze the encapsulated dead and patched the hole as best they could and found a clock still running and re-set their instruments, and each man had a souvenir piece of meteor stone, and less than two weeks after this was done the boredom dropped over them again as though excitement had never been. ”

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Tom W. Harris, Flight Into the Unknown

“ The tension about their mission to Krotzer, tighter from hour to hour only made it worse. They began to hate each other's mannerisms, the way a person scratched an ear or cleared a throat. It's getting you, Bailey, Matt told himself. This way men go nuts.
... Go nuts, echoed the minds that were him without knowing. Go nuts ... go nuts ... go nuts ...
It was after chow that he did it. He walked over and turned off the television. All kinds of emotions stood on the faces of the others. Rage was the one on the face of a hulking man named Regan. ”

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Tom W. Harris, Flight Into the Unknown

“ An unconvincing smile crossed his face, which like all their faces was dead white from months of being away from anything like sunlight. "A lot of lousy things can happen in space. I hope we get less than our share of them."
Bailey snugged the headset over his ears. The voice of Krotzer was weaker. Bailey pictured him crouched in his bubble, his radar broken and only fit for sending, wondering if any lonely ship at all was hearing him, and if it was, if it would arrive in time. Krotzer had a wife, and a child he had never seen. ”

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Tom W. Harris, Flight Into the Unknown

“ It took DiCredico ten minutes to get through his talk with Bailey, speaking in tough, slicing sentences. The service was no bed of roses, said the skipper, and nobody in the service had ever claimed it was. It was a damned mean racket and nobody asked you to get into it. You volunteered. And you didn't have to stay. Before each voyage you could ask for honorable discharge, or earth duty if available. But once you blasted off, you had to stand the gaff. You had to.
There were men who cracked. There were whole crews. If one man lost control, another might, and finally all of them. ”

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Tom W. Harris, Flight Into the Unknown

“ Matt had never told anyone how he felt about space. It was a freezing, heart-killing loneliness that waited icily, and now it had come in through the hull and was with him. His jaw clenched. He had no idea whether he could carry on alone, but he was going to. ”

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Tom W. Harris, Flight Into the Unknown

“ Nobody saw anything.
"Something's damned queer," said Regan.
"Something's always queer," said DiCredico. "Now, here's the plan. Get your suits on. From Krotzer's reports, whatever is after him is stopped or impeded by material substance. Then we go in one at a time. I go first. If nothing happens to me, Regan comes in. If he makes it, Bailey. Then Fry. If anything goes wrong, I want the man with next turn to try the other side of the bubble. Except you, Fry. If you're the only one left, get back to the ship. You'll have to make a report, and you and the men can decide the next step. ”

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Tom W. Harris, Flight Into the Unknown

“ Now he was talking about the things outside the bubble. "I never saw anything like them. In fact, I can't see them. Can't exactly. You can see them with your feelings, somehow—hooded sort—and beginning to come through...."
He broke off, started again. "This is Captain Krotzer of the Galileo. We have crashed on Katherine Two, satellite of Saturn, continental area. ”

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