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Warrior Race, by Robert Sheckley
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Title: Warrior Race
Author: Robert Sheckley
Illustrator: Scattergood
Release Date: July 30, 2009 [EBook #29548]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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[Illustration: Illustrated by SCATTERGOOD]
By ROBERT SHECKLEY
WARRIOR RACE
Destroying the spirit of the enemy is the goal of war and the aliens had the best way!
They never did discover whose fault it was. Fannia pointed out that if Donnaught had had the brains of an ox, as well as the build, he would have remembered to check the tanks. Donnaught, although twice as big as him, wasn't quite as fast with an insult. He intimated, after a little thought, that Fannia's nose might have obstructed his reading of the fuel gauge.
This still left them twenty light-years from Thetis, with a cupful of transformer fuel in the emergency tank.
"All right," Fannia said presently. "What's done is done. We can squeeze about three light-years out of the fuel before we're back on atomics. Hand me The Galactic Pilot--unless you forgot that, too."
Donnaught dragged the bulky microfilm volume out of its locker, and they explored its pa