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Fanfare, November 1950
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ALL GOD'S CHILLUN GOT WORLDS by ed noble [Things are not always as they seem. In Virtue Will Triumph Mr. Littlechip begs those who doubted his veracity to read Felznep Pthah and Tettil Grey-tail into Fels Naptha and Tattle-Tale Grey. Similar variegated spellings of names will follow in this and future epics.] "---and while Dr. Hooper Hipper's Hyper-space Hypothesis has within it a modicum of good sense and possible accuracy," Pritchard Littlechip was writing at his library desk, when the wall of the room seemed to melt away momentarily and two characters plunged through. One was running with frantic gasping while the other ran with roars of ferocious rage, swinging a long and whirling saber that swished int he air inches behind the persued. "Now what in the thundering names of Jove and Odin was that---?" Littlechip asked himself when the opposite wall seemed to fall away and allow the two to pass through, marvelously returning to original status almost immediately. Shrugging his shoulders, he returned to his evening's work, a discussion of the Hooper Hipper Hyper-space Hypothesis to be presented to the university s-f class on the following day. The second time Littlechip was more alert. A second time the library wall gave way and the same pair dashed through. It was not that he was particularly curious as to what manner of individuals these might be, but he deemed it quite unnecessary for them to use his home for a race-track. He made a leaping flying tackle for the first and brought down the second with a neat ankle trip. The slashing saber struck the library table and whacked off an edge. "Let's bring this thing to a screeching focus," Littlechip muttered as he twisted the opponent's ankle in getting up to his feet. "What's the big idea---?" "You let him get away!" "I sure didn't let you get away, though." "But he's probably back in Earth VI and I'll have to find him all over again---" The saber-swisher sat disconsolately on the floor and hacked away unhappily at a fire log stacked by the fireplace. "Six-shmix--- let's have a bit of detail on this. It's a little disconcerting to have a couple of strangers dash madly through one's library without as much as a how do you do--- I was working on a paper about the Hooper Hipper Hyper---" "You know the Hooper Hipper Hyper-space Hypothesis?" The features of the swordsman lit up with pleasure. "He borrowed 'em from us, you know, but he didn't have time to steal the secret like everyone else did. It's a secret only on Earth IV---that's this one, you know---" "No, I don't know--- but I'll take your word for it for the time being. What's this Earth IV and Earth VI and stuff?" "Why, the various planes of Earth, naturally!" The swordsman stuck his saber into the end of the firewood. "There's seven of 'em---I, II, III, IV, V, VI, and VII. This one is in the middle and the balancer of the whole bunch. That's why the secret has been pretty much of a secret so far---all the inter-plane travel has hop-scotched Earth IV until that snide little stinker, Wag-mop, tried to get away from me by ducking into Earth IV. So naturally I followed him. I'm sorry we went through your house, but that's where we came through and went back. Dinka Dhu is going to be awful mad when he finds out that Wag-mop went into Earth IV---" "He'll probably be madder if he finds out you were there too---" page 5
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ALL GOD'S CHILLUN GOT WORLDS by ed noble [Things are not always as they seem. In Virtue Will Triumph Mr. Littlechip begs those who doubted his veracity to read Felznep Pthah and Tettil Grey-tail into Fels Naptha and Tattle-Tale Grey. Similar variegated spellings of names will follow in this and future epics.] "---and while Dr. Hooper Hipper's Hyper-space Hypothesis has within it a modicum of good sense and possible accuracy," Pritchard Littlechip was writing at his library desk, when the wall of the room seemed to melt away momentarily and two characters plunged through. One was running with frantic gasping while the other ran with roars of ferocious rage, swinging a long and whirling saber that swished int he air inches behind the persued. "Now what in the thundering names of Jove and Odin was that---?" Littlechip asked himself when the opposite wall seemed to fall away and allow the two to pass through, marvelously returning to original status almost immediately. Shrugging his shoulders, he returned to his evening's work, a discussion of the Hooper Hipper Hyper-space Hypothesis to be presented to the university s-f class on the following day. The second time Littlechip was more alert. A second time the library wall gave way and the same pair dashed through. It was not that he was particularly curious as to what manner of individuals these might be, but he deemed it quite unnecessary for them to use his home for a race-track. He made a leaping flying tackle for the first and brought down the second with a neat ankle trip. The slashing saber struck the library table and whacked off an edge. "Let's bring this thing to a screeching focus," Littlechip muttered as he twisted the opponent's ankle in getting up to his feet. "What's the big idea---?" "You let him get away!" "I sure didn't let you get away, though." "But he's probably back in Earth VI and I'll have to find him all over again---" The saber-swisher sat disconsolately on the floor and hacked away unhappily at a fire log stacked by the fireplace. "Six-shmix--- let's have a bit of detail on this. It's a little disconcerting to have a couple of strangers dash madly through one's library without as much as a how do you do--- I was working on a paper about the Hooper Hipper Hyper---" "You know the Hooper Hipper Hyper-space Hypothesis?" The features of the swordsman lit up with pleasure. "He borrowed 'em from us, you know, but he didn't have time to steal the secret like everyone else did. It's a secret only on Earth IV---that's this one, you know---" "No, I don't know--- but I'll take your word for it for the time being. What's this Earth IV and Earth VI and stuff?" "Why, the various planes of Earth, naturally!" The swordsman stuck his saber into the end of the firewood. "There's seven of 'em---I, II, III, IV, V, VI, and VII. This one is in the middle and the balancer of the whole bunch. That's why the secret has been pretty much of a secret so far---all the inter-plane travel has hop-scotched Earth IV until that snide little stinker, Wag-mop, tried to get away from me by ducking into Earth IV. So naturally I followed him. I'm sorry we went through your house, but that's where we came through and went back. Dinka Dhu is going to be awful mad when he finds out that Wag-mop went into Earth IV---" "He'll probably be madder if he finds out you were there too---" page 5
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