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Invasion, by William Fitzgerald Jenkins
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Title: Invasion
Author: William Fitzgerald Jenkins
Release Date: July 19, 2009 [EBook #29455]
Language: English
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This etext was produced from Astounding Stories March 1933. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.
[Illustration: He picked Sylva up in his arms and ran madly.]
Invasion
By Murray Leinster
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[Sidenote: The whole fighting fleet of the United Nations is caught in Kreynborg's marvelous, unique trap.]
It was August 19, 2037. The United Nations was just fifty years old. Televisors were still monochromatic. The Nidics had just won the World Series in Prague. Com-Pub observatories were publishing elaborate figures on moving specks in space which they considered to be Martian spaceships on their way to Earth, but which United Nations astronomers could not discover at all. Women were using gilt lipsticks that year. Heat-induction motors were still considered efficient prime movers.
Thorn Hard was a high-level flier for the Pacific Watch. Ba