The tomorrow people : $b a science fiction novelMerril, Judith
Science
The tomorrow people : $b a science fiction novel
Merril, Judith
Mars (Planet) -- Fiction; Psychological fiction; Science fiction; Space travelers -- Fiction
Jake was at the bar now. Johnny toyed with the thought of taking the
girl to the bar, and then maybe upstairs. The room upstairs was big and
dim, cool, quiet now at midnight as it had been in the bar when he came
in at noon. At noon the room was hot, and even through the blinds the
whiteness of high sun crept in.
The room was cool now: cool and quiet and all alone.
_Lisa_....
“What’s your name, doll?”
She told him, and it was hilariously funny, because it was Dolly, and
he’d called her _doll_ so she’d thought he knew all along, and the band
came and played _Dolly Dawn_. When they went to the bar, Jake nodded
and said Dolly was fine, Dolly be good for him. So he gave Dolly five
dollars, for being a good girl, and shook hands with Jake, and went up
alone to the dim cool aloneness where nobody knew or cared anything
anyhow he could sleep deep and no dreams.
But he remembered before he was all the way asleep that it was
Friday--_had_ been Friday--and tomorrow--today--he would have to leave
... back to where the world was and people who knew all about it ...
about everything.
When he woke up, the newspaper was under the door for him: he’d told
them when he came: no papers, no tri-di, no nothin’, till Saturday.
Bring me a paper on Saturday. And here it was.
They were all right. Jake, all of them, they were okay.
The headline was right on page one.
_MOON LAB DIRECTOR WILL TESTIFY_
_Christensen To Appear At SAC Hearing Tuesday_
Mexcity, Sep. 2: Dr. Peter A. Christensen, Research Director of the
U.S.A.A. Moon Laboratory, is en route to Earth today, to testify
voluntarily for the McLafferty Committee, at a hearing next Tuesday,
Sep. 6.
The announcement of Dr. Christensen’s compliance with the request of
the S.A.C. Security Subcommittee Chairman, Rep. Ramon E. McLafferty
(I., E. Ch.) was made today by Brigadier General “Jed” Harbridge,
Decagon Science and Space chief. The Moon Lab program, although under
Congressional control primarily, is sponsored in part by the U.S.A.A.
Space Academy, and associated Decagon Space Research units.
There was no comment from Gen. Harbridge on the “evidence” McLafferty
claims to have regarding Security leaks, and general laxity, at
the Moon Dome. The official Decagon statement said only that Dr.
Christensen boarded the Messenger satellite last night, and will
appear, of his own volition, at the Tuesday hearing.
Dr. Christensen’s decision followed an official request from the
Subcommittee radioed to the Moon Tuesday. Acknowledgement of the
message and compliance with the request was received Wednesday
by Rep. McLafferty, it was learned at his office here today. Dr.
Christensen will arrive on Earth Sunday, Sep. 4, at about 8 P.M.,
at St. Thom Spaceport. The rocket, previously announced to land at
Baja Spaceport, was rescheduled for St. Thom after receipt of Dr.
Christensen’s message to the Decagon.
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