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Satellite System, by 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
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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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
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Having 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 th