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Science Adventure Stories, v. 1, issue 2, October 1938
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32. Science Adventure Stories ************************************************************ vation, the first stroke of open conflict was started. London was reduced to smoldering ashes during the night and the carnage was apalling. Britain was without official leadership. The first deed of hostility had been executed; and within ten days, every country upon the globe was engaged in the bloody conflict. Cities were evacuated in dread anticipation of bombings by night. But the country side was not without its perils. Robot-controlled planes swept high# above in the darkness of night and left a wake of death-dealing germs and gasses to slowly settle upon the fugitive inhabitants below. Extermination by these means, especially these death-dealing germs, proved to be the greatest menace of all. In those succeeding days of horror gone rampant, disease spread from person to person, from community to community and nation-wide! People forgot about the dark star peril; It became a forgotten menace in the shadow of the immediate conditions. Lter, the Dark Star topic was to become the one and only thing they should be capable of thinking of, but now! . . . "Meanwhile, there remained some resemblance of normal life in a few isolated sections of the world. Among these communities, there existed several astronomical observatories where men watched with dazed horror, the relentless approach of the invisible body of dimensions slightly exceeding those of our own sun. Night after night these same men labored #### over intricate devices, pondered and studied over problems involving higher mathematics. And night after night they made they photographs of the 'Coal Sack' region of the Milky Way, from whence this interloper had suddenly made his dreaded appearance that fateful night, by quite suddenly eclipsing and thus blotting out
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32. Science Adventure Stories ************************************************************ vation, the first stroke of open conflict was started. London was reduced to smoldering ashes during the night and the carnage was apalling. Britain was without official leadership. The first deed of hostility had been executed; and within ten days, every country upon the globe was engaged in the bloody conflict. Cities were evacuated in dread anticipation of bombings by night. But the country side was not without its perils. Robot-controlled planes swept high# above in the darkness of night and left a wake of death-dealing germs and gasses to slowly settle upon the fugitive inhabitants below. Extermination by these means, especially these death-dealing germs, proved to be the greatest menace of all. In those succeeding days of horror gone rampant, disease spread from person to person, from community to community and nation-wide! People forgot about the dark star peril; It became a forgotten menace in the shadow of the immediate conditions. Lter, the Dark Star topic was to become the one and only thing they should be capable of thinking of, but now! . . . "Meanwhile, there remained some resemblance of normal life in a few isolated sections of the world. Among these communities, there existed several astronomical observatories where men watched with dazed horror, the relentless approach of the invisible body of dimensions slightly exceeding those of our own sun. Night after night these same men labored #### over intricate devices, pondered and studied over problems involving higher mathematics. And night after night they made they photographs of the 'Coal Sack' region of the Milky Way, from whence this interloper had suddenly made his dreaded appearance that fateful night, by quite suddenly eclipsing and thus blotting out
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