Conquest Over Time
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Description
Michael Shaara's science-fiction story Conquest Over Time opens with a radiogram arriving at 10:28 ship's time, when old 29 sat exactly 3.4 light years off Diomed III. Travis throws her wide open and hopes for the best. By 4:10 that afternoon, with three generators burned out and a warped ion screen, old 29 touches the atmosphere and begins homing down. A Mapping Command ship sits in an open field below, sending up the beam that guides them, but what matters now, the story insists, is to come in second.
The headnote explains the world Travis finds: a planet called Mert, where people live in houses strictly from Dickens, with carriages, no sewers, and narrow streets. Travis, reaching Diomed III before others, wages a one-man fight against a strange way of life, and against a secret that almost costs his life.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 82 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |