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This World Is Taboo, by Murray Leinster

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Title: This World Is Taboo

Author: Murray Leinster

Release Date: April 14, 2006 [EBook #18172]

Language: English

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THIS WORLD IS TABOO

by MURRAY LEINSTER

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THIS WORLD IS TABOO

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The little Med Ship came out of overdrive and the stars were strange and the Milky Way seemed unfamiliar. Which, of course, was because the Milky Way and the local Cepheid marker-stars were seen from an unaccustomed angle and a not-yet-commonplace pattern of varying magnitudes.

But Calhoun grunted in satisfaction. There was a banded sun off to port, which was good. A breakout at no more than sixty light-hours from one's destination wasn't bad, in a strange sector of the galaxy and after three light-years of journeying blind.

"Arise and shine, Murgatroyd," said Calhoun. "Comb your whiskers. Get set to astonish the natives!"

A sleepy, small,

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