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Chapter Three Scattered Seeds ................................................. 398
Chapter Four Humans ................................................................ 422
Chapter Five Contact .................................................................. 470
Chapter Five Family.................................................................... 494




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Part One
New Beginnings

Chapter One Common Sense

“Maybe we really ought to show this to your father before…”
John had at least a hazy idea about all of the nasty things that could
go wrong with this latest ‘enterprise’.

“You know he ignores anything that doesn’t have proper data to
back it up,” Michael patiently explained again. “All we need to do now
is to record some actual input power-to-thrust figures.”

“But…”

“There’s no risk. It’s all perfectly safe. I have the data recorder
connected, there’s nothing left to do but test it under operating
conditions. Besides, you’ll be the pilot and you have your ticket. That
will make it all very proper and legal.”

“You know what my father said about tinkering with this flyer.”
John certainly remembered. The very modest and well-used craft had
once been his mother’s first flyer. She had earned her basic flight
ticket in the pokey old thing. The secret tinkering had been going on
now for six weeks.

“Now who’s being the old lady? This modification will increase
the efficiency of a standard drive coil by at least four hundred percent.




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