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Rescue Squad, by Thomas J. O'Hara
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Title: Rescue Squad
Author: Thomas J. O'Hara
Release Date: August 27, 2009 [EBook #29822]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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When Mr. O'Hara won the prize story contest recently conducted by THE FANTASY WRITERS' WORKSHOP at the College of the City of New York, in conjunction with FANTASTIC UNIVERSE, it was the unanimous opinion of the judges that a second story by Mr. O'Hara, RESCUE SQUAD, deserved honorable mention. We think you'll agree with that decision when you've read this documentary-type science-fiction yarn, which so excitingly combines realistic characterization with the mystery, suspense and terror of the near future's exploration of space and a lone pilot's struggle to survive.
rescue squad
by ... Thomas J. O'Hara
Stark disaster to a brave lad in space may--to the mind that loves--be a tragedy pridefully concealed.
The mail ship, MR4, spun crazily through space a million miles off her trajectory. Her black-painted hull resembled a long thermonuclear weapon, and below her and only a scant twenty million miles away burned the hungry, flaming maw of the Sun.
The atomic-p