Part 29 (2/2)

”It was not created from the air,” said Morey simply.

”And now,” said Arcot, looking at it, ”Man can do what never before was possible. From the nothingness of s.p.a.ce he can make anything.

”Man alone in this s.p.a.ce is Creator and Destroyer.

”It is a high place.

”May he henceforth live up to it.”

And he looked out toward the mighty starlit hull that had destroyed a solar system--and could create another.

Books by JOHN W. CAMPBELL in Ace editions:

THE BLACK STAR Pa.s.sES

THE MIGHTIEST MACHINE

ISLANDS OF s.p.a.cE

THE PLANETEERS & THE ULTIMATE WEAPON

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