The Ultimate Image
Unknown
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Description
P Schuyler Miller's The Ultimate Image ran in the magazine Comet in December 1940. The tale opens in a garden at night, where the teller, Mike, finds his friend Bill Porter wrestling a small, snarling man in the dirt. Porter, two hundred pounds of him, wins, but he is bleeding from a gash in the neck.
In the scuffed earth lies a gun bigger than any six-shooter, with a barrel too thick to be real. The little man meant to shoot the Ambassador with it, Porter says, and got him instead. A note at the head names the thing the Magnificent Defense Unit of Dampier. Miller mixes a crime tale's pace with a weapon from outside the known world, and the mix keeps the pages turning.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |