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A MILE BEYOND THE MOQN
C. M. Kornbluth

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MANOR BOOKS INC.
A MANOR BOOK
First printing ....... January, 1962
Second printing ........ May, 1966
Third printing .... December, 1972
Manor Books Inc.
329 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10016
Copyright, ©, 1958, by Doubleday & Company, Inc. All rights reserved. Published by
arrangement with Doubleday & Company, Inc. Printed in the U.S.A.



Contents
MAKE MINE MARS
THE EVENTS LEADING DOWN TO THE TRAGEDY
THE LITTLE BLACK BAG
EVERYBODY KNOWS JOE
TIME BUM
VIRGINIA
KAZAM COLLECTS
THE LAST MAN LEFT IN THE BAR
THE ADVENTURER
THE WORDS OF GURU
SHARK SHIP


Make Mine Mars

"X is for the ecstasy she ga-a-ave me; E is for her eyes—one, two, and three-ee; T is
for the teeth with which she'd sha-a-ave me; S is for her scales of i-vo-ree-ee-ee ..."
Somebody was singing, and my throbbing head objected. I teemed to have a mouthful of
sawdust
T is for her tentacles ah-round me;
J is for her jowls—were none soo-oo fair;
H is for the happy day she found me; 'Fe is for the iron in her hair..,"
I ran my tongue around inside my mouth. It was full of sawdust—spruce and cedar,
rocketed in from Earth.
"Put them all to-gether, they spell Xetstjhfe . . ."
My eyes snapped open, and I sat up, cracking my head on the underside of the table
beneath which I was lying. I lay down waited for the pinwheels to stop spinning. I tried to it
out. Spruce and cedar . . .Honest Blogri's Olde Earthe Saloon . . . eleven stingers with a
Sirian named Wenjtkpli...
"A worrud that means the wur-r-l-l-d too-oo mee-ee-ee!"