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Raymond Z. Gallun
Raymond Z. Gallun (1911-1994) was an author and technical writer, born and educated in Wisconsin.
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Big Pill - Raymond Z. Gallun
Big Pill
by Raymond Z. Gallun
© 2016 Positronic Publishing
Cover Image © Can Stock Photo Inc. / frenta
Positronic Publishing
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ISBN 13: 978-1-5154-1128-4
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Big Pill
by Raymond Z. Gallun
Child, it was, of the now ancient H-bomb. New. Untested. Would its terrible power sweep the stark Saturnian moon of Titan from space ... or miraculously create a flourishing paradise-colony?
Under the glow of Saturn and his Rings, five of the airdomes of the new colony on Titan were still inflated. They were enormous bubbles of clear, flexible plastic. But the sixth airdome had flattened. And beneath its collapsed roof, propped now by metal rods, a dozen men in spacesuits had just lost all hope of rescuing the victims of the accident.
Bert Kraskow, once of Oklahoma City, more recently a space-freighter pilot, and now officially just a colonist, was among them. His small, hard body sagged, as if by weariness. His lips curled. But his full anger and bitterness didn’t show.
Nine dead,
he remarked into the radio-phone of his oxygen helmet. No survivors.
And then, inaudibly, inside his mind: I’m a stinkin’ fool. Why didn’t we act against Space Colonists’ Supply Incorporated, before this could happen?
His gaze swung back to the great rent that had opened in a seam in the airdome—under only normal Earthly atmospheric pressure, when it should have been able to withstand much more. Instantly the warmed air had rushed out into the near-vacuum of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Those who had been working the night-shift under the dome, to set up prefabricated cottages, had discarded their spacesuits for better freedom of movement. It was the regulation thing to do; always considered safe. But they had been caught by the sudden dropping of pressure around them to almost zero. And by the terrible cold of the Titanian night.
For a grief-stricken second Bert Kraskow looked down again at the body beside which he stood. You could hardly see that the face had been young. The eyes popped. The pupils were white, like ice. The fluid within had frozen. The mouth hung open. In the absence of normal air-pressure, the