Counterweight
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Description
Counterweight, by Jerry Sohl, is a science fiction story from Worlds of If. It ran in the November 1959 issue, the note on the text says. Keith Ellason, a newsman, is tapped to ride a colony ship as observer. The Weblor One disaster hangs over the offer from the start of talks.
That first ship left with a thousand families for the planet Antheon. Under five hundred colonists lived to land, after revolt split the voyage apart. Captain Sessions bullying fanned chaos among passengers and crew in space. Interstellar wants facts this time, not the garbled crew report of old. Ellason weighs two years in a sardine can against history in the making.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 26 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |