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Their Blood and Sticky, by Albert Teichner
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Title: Sweet Their Blood and Sticky
Author: Albert Teichner
Release Date: May 22, 2007 [EBook #21568]
Language: English
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They weren't human--weren't even related to humanity through ties of blood--but they were our heirs!
SWEET Their blood and sticky
By ALBERT R. TEICHNER
The machine had stood there a long time. It was several hundred feet long and could run on a thimbleful of earth or water. Complete in itself, the machine drew material from the surrounding landscape, transmuting matter to its special purposes. It needed sugar, salt, water and many other things but never failed to have them. It was still working. And at the delivery end, where the packaging devices had been broken down, it turned out a steady turgid stream on the ground of pink-striped, twisting taffy.
Once the whole vast desert area had been filled with such devices, produc