by Charles Dye and Katherine MacLean

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

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

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

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

“ Bryce's earphones picked up Pierce's voice again. “Frontier-born nations always look back and say that the first years were the best.”
The words caught at something Bryce had felt before. He looked at Earth hanging splendidly in space. It was beautiful and he was fond of it, but—He said, “I don't think we'll ever go back.” Nor would mankind itself. Never again—through all conquests from this point in time—would mankind go back down into the mesh of gravity to be a thin film over the surface of a planet.
“Give old Earth a smile, Bryce, we've hatched.” ”

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

“ He took advantage of the lag to move his gun under its curtain of leaves and get the sights lined on them.
They swung their eyes around the circle and saw him. “Mister Carter?” asked the foremost one. Their faceplates were still closed, and their voices slightly distorted by transmission through the helmet speaker, but he could hear a note of surprise. As the first one spoke the second one moved his hidden arm slightly, as if he were holding something. ”

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

“ Pierce returned and came in to help Bryce drag the corpses through the airlock and into space.
They braced against the silver curve of the floating spaceship and gave the body a combined strong shove towards Earth. Spinning slowly end over end it dwindled into a dark speck against the glowing orb of Earth, destined to be a meteorite and make a small bright streak in the Earth sky several days later. ”

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

“ As for the fugitives they pay enough by wanting the Belt to be organized as a nation independent of Earth, so that the hand of the law can't stretch out and drag them back, and they can become wealthy in open business, in the million chances for wealth that lie around them in the Belt. ”

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

“ They would see the globe alone and assume that Bryce had not yet arrived. The spaceship itself might be armed illegally, but those within would not blast the globe without checking its interior. Bryce glanced up at the silver door in the cliff and arranged his position so as to be lounging on one elbow, with his gun hand lying relaxed under a thin curtain of leaves. The magnomatic was pointing up towards the corridor door. ”

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

“ Pierce was reciting as they went back into the globe for the second corpse.
I'll take the meteor's trail—go home to Earth And make a Viking's funeral in the sky.
“This is too easy,” Bryce complained as they watched the second corpse fade from sight. “The trouble is, in space all corpses are delicti. It's an incentive. Launch your enemies.” ”

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

“ Bryce reached it down and placed it in the mold, and watched grinning as the mold closed and the door rotated, delivering the man-form to an equivalent hook in the spacelock. The doll was known by all spacemen as Hector Dimwitty, and every ship had one or two. There were a thousand yarns and jokes circulating about the adventures of the Hectors, most of them lewd, and a few of them true.
Pierce's answer was in his earphones, “A frontier is where people go when they are young, broke, or have the cops after them.” ”

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

“ They pay by being my men, grateful and ready to back me up when I want help later. They don't have to be grateful, for they know I can call any loan if the owner crosses me, and I've built a reputation for an occasional fit of irrational temper that is threat enough for anyone to avoid crossing me, without feeling that I have wanted to threaten or force them. ”

by Charles Dye and Katherine MacLean

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