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Sjambak, by John Holbrook Vance
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Title: Sjambak
Author: John Holbrook Vance
Illustrator: Virgil Finlay
Release Date: September 16, 2009 [EBook #30002]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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This etext was produced from If Worlds of Science Fiction July 1953. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and typographical errors have been corrected without note. Within the text, [=o] represents a lowercase o with an upper macron.
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Wilbur Murphy sought romance, excitement, and an impossible Horseman of Space. With polite smiles, the planet frustrated him at every turn--until he found them all the hard way!
SJAMBAK
By Jack Vance
Illustrated by VIRGIL FINLAY
Howard Frayberg, Production Director of Know Your Universe!, was a man of sudden unpredictable moods; and Sam Catlin, the show's Continuity Editor, had learned to expect the worst.
"Sam," said Frayberg, "regarding the show last night...." He paused to seek the proper words, and Catlin relaxed. Frayberg's frame of m