‘Unconquerable’, repeated Markham. ‘A word that should not exist in scout-language.’ At that point he became riled, jerked open a drawer, extracted a notebook and consulted it. ‘Up to the last survey, four hundred twenty one planets had been discovered, charted, recorded. One hundred thirty seven found suitable for human life and large or small groups of settlers placed thereon. Sixty-two alien lifeforms mastered during the process.’ He shoved the book back. ‘And out there in the dark a wandering tramp picks a word like unconquerable.’
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Six stories by the very entertaining Eric Frank Russell, a British writer who did the bulk of his work for John W. Campbell at Astounding Science Fiction in the 40s and 50s. The stories are packed full with interesting ideas and they are often very funny.
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