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    Satellite System
    Satellite System
    Satellite System
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    Satellite System

    By Horace Brown Fyfe and Leo Summers

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Satellite System - Horace Brown Fyfe

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      Title: Satellite System

      Author: Horace Brown Fyfe

      Illustrator: Summers

      Release Date: September 14, 2009 [EBook #29990]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SATELLITE SYSTEM ***

      Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      Transcriber's Note:

      This etext was produced from Analog Science Fact & Fiction October 1960. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

      SATELLITE

      SYSTEM

      By H. B. FYFE

      Fyfe's quite right ... there's nothing like a satellite system for a cold storage arrangement. Keeps things handy, but out of the way....

      Illustrated by Summers

      aving released the netting of his bunk, George Tremont floated himself out. He ran his tongue around his mouth and grimaced.

      Wonder how long I slept ... feels like too long, he muttered. Well, they would have called me.

      The cabin was a ninety-degree wedge of a cylinder hardly eight feet high. From one end of its outer arc across to the other was just over ten feet, so that it had been necessary to bevel two corners of the hinged, three-by-seven bunk to clear the sides of the wedge. Lockers flattened the arc behind the bunk.

      Tremont maneuvered himself into a vertical position in the eighteen inches between the bunk and a flat surface that cut off the point of the wedge. He stretched out an arm to remove towel and razor from one of the lockers, then carefully folded the bunk upward and hooked it securely in place.

      With room to turn now, he swung around and slid open a double door in the flat surface, revealing a shaft three feet square whose center was also the theoretical intersection of his cabin walls. Tremont pulled himself into the shaft. From up forward, light leaked through a partly open hatch, and he could hear a murmur of voices as he jackknifed in the opposite direction.

      At least two of them are up there, he grunted.

      He

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