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Dreaming Again

Grimes and the Gaijin Daimyo the first A Bertram Chandler story to be published in 24 year is now available in the Anthology Dreaming Again edited by Jack Dann.






















First Flights to the Moon 1970
(Cover Roger Zimmerman)

Editor(s): Hal Clement
Publisher: Doubleday (USA)
Edition: 74-103738
Publication Date: 1970

First Flights to the Moon 1970

Short Story

What?

The high school physics student will finish this story, think for a moment and say, "Wait a minute. That's not right. The angle of repose doesn't depend on gravity. We did an experiment sliding blocks down a board, and the weight cancels out. The coefficent of friction is equal to the tangent of theta-"

The high-shcooler is right, of course, as far as he goes. He has learned a nice straightforward, simple formula, and he has checked it out-.

In a laboratory full of air, which has interesting lubricating properties.

Even in air, the formula doesn't always work; there are other factors, which the high school algerbra doesn't cover. How about the "rats" - those rolls of dust under the bed which are always good for a demerit at West Point? If dust particles only manage to have the right shape, or get lightly sputter-welded together by micrometeorite impact, a few more terms really should go into the formula.

General Black Blast Bradley should have remembered this cadet days, if he ever was a cadet. Actually, I'm not sure he could have been. I've met many high military officers in twenty-odd years of Reserve service (including combat) and Bradley's casual rejection of common-sense procedure, even under pressure from public opinion, just doesn't fit the picture.

Maybe the General is a ringer, and we have a spy-and-sabotage story here.