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The Huddlers

Auhtor: William Campbell Gault

Language: english
Published: 1953

Genres:

short story,  science fiction,  post 1930
Downloads: 5
eBook size: 307Kb

Review by Dr. Bojan Tunguz, December 2010


Rating: (*****)
Copyright: Public Domain in the U.S.
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Summary of the Book 'The Huddlers':

He was a reporter from Venus with an assignment on Earth. He got his story but against orders he fell in love?and therein lies this story.

Excerpts from the Book 'The Huddlers':


... distance, the way they huddle. They had one place, encrusting the shore line for miles on one of the land bodies they called the Eastern Seaboard. A coagulation ...
... of their better minds, their scientific minds. How long do you think it will be, friend, before they are ready for us? Ready, ready???? ...
... man in the department who didn't appreciate that. We stared at him, and he sat down on the high bench near the Maling converters. He looked old ...
... night and day, all the information we had on the huddlers and all the theories based on that information. They put me into a space sphere, and said good ...
... me where you live. She gave me an address on Sunset, and this was Sunset, this lateral street, ending at the ocean. So, quite obviously, it was an address ...
... It was a habit long dead where I came from. And then I remembered what she'd said about being drunk, and knew that, too, as one of our long disused vices. ...
... have a beef barbecue, probably, won't you, Fred? I guess, I said. And some milk, cow's milk. Jean laughed. It's my money. Have canary milk. Not ...
... my life, I told her truthfully, though I've heard about them. What makes you think I'm from a farm? Your freshness, your complexion and???everything ...
... you distrust all men, Jean? No. Just the ones I've met. Oh, baby, and I thought you were a farmer. She was crushing out her cigarette. You haven't ...
... walls were glass on two sides. It's too old a house to modernize completely, Jean told me. I grew up in this house. You don't???work, Jean? No. ...
... This girl who certainly knew corruption, this worldly, lovely girl. I smiled at her. She wiped the tears with the back of her hand. Fred, you are the ...
... silence, and the beating of my heart. Silence, my hands trembling, my knees aching. I'd like to see some fights, I said. Would you like to? She frowned. ...
... talents. But still, with all this to choose from, the people seemed to prefer Milton Berle. And the people were in command. I was reading Ambrose ...
... man said, Hey, this is better than them jerks inside. Slug him, lady. Jean started to laugh, and so did I, and then all of us were laughing, the whole ...
... Berlin, it was Russia. The cloud that darkens the world looms darkest in Berlin. The apathy that grips the world is epitomized in Berlin. A ...
... dreams of Hitler and make them come true. I came out with a promise of ten thousand American dollars for every one of the future formulas I had assured ...
... what I've gone through, alone here, thinking back on all the crazy things you've said and done. What have you told me about yourself, what do I know? Nothing, ...
... said. I can't come, now. I'm???married??? He smiled. If you knew what a mess it's been. We've got men all over the planet. Does your wife???know? She ...
... huddlers, Fred? I don't know. I'm not sure I give a damn. Deering continued to look out the window. The gray nation, the mixed nation, this America ...
... a reporter from Venus with an assignment on Earth. He got his story but, against orders, he fell in love—and therein lies this story.

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