Interstellar travel -- Fiction; Outer space -- Exploration -- Fiction; Science fiction; Short stories; Space ships -- Fiction
Space travel--travel at faster than light speeds--had to make a
difference. There were the other worlds on the other side of the sun,
where men were already planning to colonize. Even if a world might
normally blow up in a final wild holocaust, it would have its whole
racial pattern changed when it began to spread out among the stars. It
would have to have a revival of the old pioneering spirit. There had
been the beginnings of that when they left. And with that, such a war
could be prevented forever.
He heard Graves moving about in the galley, singing something about
graves opening, and grimaced.
Besides, Jeremy had admitted that they didn't have all the answers.
The mystery of the vanished skeletons remained--and until that was
accounted for, nothing could be considered explained.
He forgot about the skeletons as he began planning how he'd wangle his
way into one of the colonies. Then, even if catastrophe did strike
Earth in another thousand years or so, the race could go on. Ten more
years, and man would be safe....
He was feeling almost cheerful as they finally came out of hyperspace
near Earth ... and landed....
The skeletons--lay scattered everywhere.
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