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Man Who Played to Lose, by Laurence Mark Janifer
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Title: The Man Who Played to Lose
Author: Laurence Mark Janifer
Illustrator: Douglas
Release Date: October 15, 2009 [EBook #30259]
Language: English
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This etext was produced from Analog Science Fact & Fiction October 1961. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.
THE
MAN WHO
PLAYED TO LOSE
By LARRY M. HARRIS
Sometimes the very best thing you can do is to lose. The cholera germ, for instance, asks nothing better than that it be swallowed alive....
Illustrated by Douglas
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When I came into the control room the Captain looked up from a set of charts at me. He stood up and gave me a salute and I returned it, not making a ceremony out of it. "Half an hour to landing, sir," he said.
That irritated me. It always irritates me. "I'm not an officer," I said. "I'm not even an enlisted man."
He nodded, too quickly. "Yes, Mr. Carboy," he said. "Sorry."
I sighed.