"Something will come along before too long!"
"Maybe mapping geological samples in the canyons of Mercury," suggested
Joe.
"Maybe," said Richard.
A little more than two months later, as the Seatons, Taylors, and
Fosters prepared to celebrate Thanksgiving dinner on the farm, the
Tartarus was speeding through the void.
"We've just passed the orbit of Neptune, sir," announced the pilot.
"Thank you, Mr. Gebbeth. We're making good time." Those who had seen
Lurton Zimbardo in his last hours aboard the runaway asteroid would
have been surprised to learn that he could be a patient man. As he had
done almost obsessively since he had fled the asteroid, he sorted
through his thoughts.
"Hundreds of us reduced to dozens, and then dozens reduced to this
handful of six. The Superiors promised me power once I had obtained for
them the access codes to Earth's primary systems. Access codes! That's
all they wanted, and Earth was to be mine for payment! I did my best!
But now I will appeal to them directly and they will push these Starmen
aside without mercy!"
In the next book of the chronicles of the Starmen, JOURNEY TO THE TENTH
PLANET, the threat to Earth will take new form. In the dark reaches
beyond the orbit of Pluto, in the near-absolute zero of space, the
Starmen will finally encounter the overwhelming power of the true
enemies of Earth.
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