The Great Dome on Mercury

by Arthur Leo Zagat

Overview

Book Excerpt: dly needed as a base material for synthetic food to supply Earth's famine-threatened population, it was to these loyal and amiable beings that ITA's engineers turned for workers who could endure the stifling heat of the underground workings.The tent-flap was thrust aside, and a hawk-nosed Scot came sleepily in, to be enthusiastically greeted by Jim."Hello, you old Caledonian. 'Bout time you showed up."* * * * *The newcomer fixed the speaker with a dour gaze. "An' why should I commence my tour o' dooty befair the time?""Because your chief, Mr. Darl Thomas, decided that he's a filliloo bird or somethin', flew to his little nest up top, an' forgot to come down again.""Is this ain o' your jests, James Holcomb? I eenquire mairly that I may ken when to laugh.""It's no joke, Mac. Last I see o' him he's skippin' around the roof like he has a buzzin' propeller stuck to his shoulder blades. He lights on th' air-lock platform, pops inside, an' goes dead for all I kRead More

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781775561057
Publisher:	The Floating Press
Publication date:	06/01/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	209 KB

About the Author

Arthur Leo Zagat (1896-1949)[1] was an American lawyer and writer of pulp fiction and science fiction. Trained in the law, he gave it up to write professionally. Zagat is noted for his collaborations with fellow lawyer Nat Schachner. During the last two decades of his life, Zagat wrote short stories prolifically.