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Hanging by a Thread, by Gordon Randall Garrett
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Title: Hanging by a Thread
Author: Gordon Randall Garrett
Illustrator: Douglas
Release Date: October 21, 2009 [EBook #30308]
Language: English
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This etext was produced from Analog Science Fact & Fiction August 1961. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.
HANGING BY A THREAD
By DAVID GORDON
It's seldom that the fate of a shipful of men literally hangs by a thread--but it's also seldom that a device, every part of which has been thoroughly tested, won't work....
Illustrated by Douglas
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Jayjay Kelvin was sitting in the lounge of the interplanetary cargo vessel Persephone, his feet propped up on the low table in front of the couch, and his attention focused almost totally on the small book he was reading. The lounge itself was cozily small; the Persephone had not been designed as a passenger vessel, and the two passengers she was carrying at the time had been taken on as an accommodation