The book Captain Future 11 - the Comet Kings (Summer 1942) was written by author Hamilton Edmond Here you can read free online of Captain Future 11 - the Comet Kings (Summer 1942) book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Captain Future 11 - the Comet Kings (Summer 1942) a good or bad book?
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disgustedly exclaimed Norton, the young second mate. “I wish I’d got a berth on a passenger liner. They don’t spend weeks crawling along between planets.”Brower, the veteran first mate, smiled tolerantly at the impatient young officer.“You’ll get used to it,” he predicted. “Me, I kind of like it. It’s restful, plugging along day after day through these big empty spaces.”“But nothing ever happens!” the younger man complained, “There’s never even a close brush with a meteor swarm. I can’t stand th...is deadly monotony.”Ironically, it was at that moment that the catastrophe broke upon them.The plodding, droning Arcturion suddenly seemed to go crazy in space. Its steelite hull plates screamed beneath the grasp of unearthly forces. The ship hurtled suddenly sideward in space, as though it had been gripped by a giant, invisible hand.The sharp shock of that invisible grasp was so powerful that it nullified the Arcturion’s artificial gravitation. Young Norton felt himself hurled against the cabin wall, and his brain saw stars.His last sensation was of mysterious and mighty forces sweeping the old freighter at undreamable speed through the void.
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