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He Doing in There?, by Fritz Reuter Leiber
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Title: What's He Doing in There?
Author: Fritz Reuter Leiber
Illustrator: Bowman
Release Date: July 24, 2009 [EBook #29504]
Language: English
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WHAT'S HE DOING IN THERE?
By FRITZ LEIBER
He went where no Martian ever went before--but would he come out--or had he gone for good?
Illustrated By BOWMAN
The Professor was congratulating Earth's first visitor from another planet on his wisdom in getting in touch with a cultural anthropologist before contacting any other scientists (or governments, God forbid!), and in learning English from radio and TV before landing from his orbit-parked rocket, when the Martian stood up and said hesitantly, "Excuse me, please, but where is it?"
That baffled the Professor and the Martian seemed to grow anxious--at least his long mouth curved upward, and he had earlier explained that it curling downward was his smile--and he repeated, "Please, where is it?"
He was surprisingly humanoid in most respects, but his complexion was textured so like the rich dark armchair he'd just been occ