by Charles Dye and Katherine MacLean

Name: The Man Who Staked the Stars — Chapter IV
Author: by Charles Dye and Katherine MacLean

The Man Who Staked the Stars — Chapter IV (1952)

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“The Man Who Staked the Stars — Chapter IV”, published in 1952, is a work by by Charles Dye and Katherine MacLean. It explores elements such as Bryce, Orillo and Pop Yak.

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by Charles Dye and Katherine MacLean, The Man Who Staked the Stars — Chapter IV (1952)

“ One thing he had learned from the Economics tome he had struggled with four nights ago, a simple inexorable principle he had recognized dimly before—that since it was difficult and more expensive to ship out goods from Earth to space than it was to drop goods into Earth from space, eventually spacepeople might be independent of Earth, and Earth totally dependent on space products.
The potentialities of the business game were amazing past anything Pop Yak had ever hinted, but the funny thing was he had to find it out step by step for himself. ”

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by Charles Dye and Katherine MacLean, The Man Who Staked the Stars — Chapter IV (1952)

“ Bryce had taken him in hand and given him a job after Orillo fled from a murder charge in South Africa. And Bryce had arranged the operations that gave Orillo a new face, new fingerprints and an unworried future. Only Bryce could now give the word to the police which could bring the examination that would show Orillo's retina tallied with that of a wanted man.
But if murder had always lain behind those impassive pale blue eyes, why had there been no attempts before? The answer to that was easy. Up to this time Bryce's activities had been profitable to Orillo. ”

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by Charles Dye and Katherine MacLean, The Man Who Staked the Stars — Chapter IV (1952)

“ You need a new hand and a new voice, one that does what you want done, and can do it in the dark or the light, without your name—a stand-in for alibis, and a contriver of accidents so they break for you without your motion. ”

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by Charles Dye and Katherine MacLean, The Man Who Staked the Stars — Chapter IV (1952)

“ Good service built up customer demand and dependency on good service. Producers manufacturing now on Earth with the new materials shipped in from space could not be cut off from access to the new materials without ruin to the manufacturers. Earth was becoming dependent on space transport. ”

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by Charles Dye and Katherine MacLean, The Man Who Staked the Stars — Chapter IV (1952)

“ And Pop was the first to give him the tip on legitimate business and how to pull money on the right side of the law and make a profit they couldn't kick about. Good old Pop. “Will-pay.” The boy sat down and leaned forward with a slight intent motion of a hand that was Pop's favorite gesture, one Bryce had picked up from him himself.
“He told me you're on the way up.” Roy Pierce held him with a steady dark gaze. “I want a slice of that, and I want it the easy way, hitching my wagon to your rocket. You can use me. A big man is too public. ”

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by Charles Dye and Katherine MacLean, The Man Who Staked the Stars — Chapter IV (1952)

“ Dark brown skin of one of the dark races, jet black straight hair, a dark pair of eyes that were merry and watchful and had the impact of something dangerous. Colossal gall, Bryce characterized it to himself. He might be as good as he thinks he is. ”

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by Charles Dye and Katherine MacLean, The Man Who Staked the Stars — Chapter IV (1952)

“ After he put his traveling stores on schedule he noticed that an increasing number of people began moving into the Belt to settle along his route without investing in the proper ship or supplies, depending on him, using his ship for a store and bus service, swelling his profits. He found that wherever he chose to extend a route and offer credit for a stake settlers would appear and a community begin to grow. ”

by Charles Dye and Katherine MacLean

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