by Edward Elmer Smith and Edward Everett Evans

Name: Masters of Space — Chapter IV
Author: by Edward Elmer Smith and Edward Everett Evans

Masters of Space — Chapter IV (1962)

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“Masters of Space — Chapter IV”, published in 1962, is a work by by Edward Elmer Smith and Edward Everett Evans. It explores elements such as Omans, Hilton and Tillinghast.

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by Edward Elmer Smith and Edward Everett Evans, Masters of Space — Chapter IV (1962)

“ Face set and hard, Hilton stared unseeingly past Sawtelle's head. “I don't know what we can do. No data. But I have pursued several lines of thought out to some pretty fantastic points ... one of which is that some of us civilians will have to stay on here indefinitely, whether we want to or not, to keep the situation under control. In which case we would, of course, arrange for Terra to get free fuel—FOB Fuel Bin—but in every other aspect and factor both these solar systems would have to be strictly off limits.” ”

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by Edward Elmer Smith and Edward Everett Evans, Masters of Space — Chapter IV (1962)

“ Hilton explained, flatly. “That's all they're interested in. You said yourself, Skipper, that it was a hell of a place to have a space-battle, practically in atmosphere. They never attack. They never scout. They simply don't care whether they're attacked or not. If and when attacked, they put up just enough ships to handle whatever force has arrived. When the attacker has been repulsed, they don't chase him a foot. They build as many ships and Omans as were lost in the battle—no more and no less—and then go on about their regular business. ”

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by Edward Elmer Smith and Edward Everett Evans, Masters of Space — Chapter IV (1962)

“ She ought to be ashamed of herself. He ought to fire her.”
“She's never been caught outside the safety zone, and we've all been watching her like hawks. In fact, she's the only one of us all who has never been alone with him for a minute. No, darling, she isn't playing games. She's playing for keeps, and she's a mighty smooth worker.” ”

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by Edward Elmer Smith and Edward Everett Evans, Masters of Space — Chapter IV (1962)

“ Hilton replied, thoughtfully. “One or a thousand or a million, the Omans have—must have—enough ships and inactivated Omans hidden away, both on Fuel World and on Ardry here, to maintain the balance.”
“Oh, hell!” Elliott snapped. “If I helped you hatch out any such brainstorm as that, I'm going onto Tillinghast's couch for a six-week overhaul—or have him put me into his padded cell.”
“Now that's what I would call a thought,” Bryant began.
“Hold it, Sam,” Hilton interrupted. “You can test it easily enough, Steve. Just ask your Oman.” ”

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by Edward Elmer Smith and Edward Everett Evans, Masters of Space — Chapter IV (1962)

“ And since he has 'no adequate laboratory equipment aboard', he wants to take a dozen or so Omans back to Terra, where he can really work on them.”
“Wouldn't that be a something?” Hilton voiced a couple of highly descriptive deep-space expletives. “Not only quit before we start, but have all the top brass of the Octagon, all the hot-shot politicians of United Worlds, the whole damn Congress of Science and all the top-bracket industrialists of Terra out here lousing things up so that nobody could ever learn anything? Not in seven thousand years!” ”

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by Edward Elmer Smith and Edward Everett Evans, Masters of Space — Chapter IV (1962)

“ The Masters owned that half of the fuel bin, so the Omans are keeping that half. They will keep on keeping it for ever and ever. Amen.”
“But that's no way to fight a war!” Three or four men said this, or its equivalent, at once.
“Don't judge them by human standards. They aren't even approximately human. Our personnel is not expendable. Theirs is—just as expendable as their materiel.” ”

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by Edward Elmer Smith and Edward Everett Evans, Masters of Space — Chapter IV (1962)

“ Nothing else. Detectors—hell! I tell you I can see better by moonlight than the very best they can do. With everything they've got you couldn't detect a woman in your own bed!”
“And this has been going on all night,” Fenway (Astrogation) said. “So the rest of us thought we'd ask you in to help us pound some sense into Sam's thick, hard head.”
Hilton frowned in thought while taking a couple of sips of his drink. Then, suddenly, his face cleared. “Sorry to disappoint you, gentlemen, but—at any odds you care to name and in anything from split peas to C-notes—Sam's right.” ”

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by Edward Elmer Smith and Edward Everett Evans, Masters of Space — Chapter IV (1962)

“ Hilton got up, jammed both hands into his pockets, sat down again. “I hadn't thought about your personal honor being involved, but of course it is. But, believe it or not, I'm thinking of humanity's best good, too. So I'll have to talk, even though I'm not half ready to—I don't know enough. Are these Omans people or machines?”
A wave of startlement swept over the group, but no one spoke.
“I didn't expect an answer. The clergy will worry about souls, too, but we won't. They have a lot of stuff we haven't. If they're people, they know a sublime hell of a lot more than we do ”

by Edward Elmer Smith and Edward Everett Evans

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