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 CHILDREN OF THE SUN
A Captain Future Novelet By Edmond HAMILTON


Curt Newton, in quest of a friend lost inside Vulcan, faces the most insidious dangers

he has ever known in his entire galactic career !




Newton scanned the region near the
great orb’s limb. The impatience that had
CHAPTER I
spurred him across half the System grew to
an intolerable tension.
Quest of the Futuremen
He said almost angrily, “Why couldn't
Carlin let well enough alone ? Why did he
have to go to Vulcan ?”
THE “For the same reason,” answered a
ship was small and dark and
precise metallic voice from behind his
unobtrusive, speeding across the Solar
shoulder, “that you went out to
System. It had a worn battered look, its
Andromeda. He is driven by the need to
plates roughened by strange radiation,
learn.”
dented by tiny meteors, tarnished by alien
“He wouldn't have gone if I hadn't told
atmospheres.
him all about Vulcan. It's my fault,
It had been far, this ship. In its time it
Simon.”
had voyaged to the farthest shores of
Curt Newton looked at his companion.
infinity, carrying its little crew of four on
He saw nothing strange in the small square
an odyssey unmatched in human annals. It
case hovering on its traction beams—the
had borne them to perils far around the
incredibly intricate serum-case that housed
universe—and back again.
the living brain of him who had been
But not even the man who sat at its
Simon Wright, a man. That artificial voice
controls could dream that now, here inside
had taught him his first words, the lens-like
the familiar System, it was bearing him