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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Good Neighbors + +Author: Edgar Pangborn + +Release Date: September 5, 2008 [EBook #26536] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GOOD NEIGHBORS *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, David Wilson and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + + +<hr class="pg" /> + +<div class="tnote"> +<h3>Transcriber’s note:</h3> + +<p>This story was published in <cite>Galaxy</cite> magazine, June 1960. +Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.</p> +</div> + +<div class="tp"> +<h2><a name="png.001" id="png.001"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">74</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>By EDGAR PANGBORN</h2> + +<h1>The<br + />Good<br + />Neighbors</h1> + +<p class="blurb"><b><i>You can’t blame an alien for +a little inconvenience—as +long as he makes up for it!</i></b></p> + +<h3>Illustrated by WOOD</h3> +</div> + +<div class="main"> +<p class="tb">THE SHIP was sighted a +few times, briefly and without +a good fix. It was spherical, +the estimated diameter about +twenty-seven miles, and was in an +orbit approximately 3400 miles +from the surface of the Earth. No +one observed the escape from it.</p> + +<p><a name="png.002" id="png.002"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">75</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span>The ship itself occasioned some +excitement, but back there at the +tattered end of the 20th century, +what was one visiting spaceship +more or less? Others had appeared +before, and gone away discouraged—or +just not bothering. 3-dimensional +TV was coming out of the +experimental stage. Soon anyone +could have Dora the Doll or the +Grandson of Tarzan smack in his +own living-room. Besides, it was a +hot summer.</p> + +<p>The first knowledge of the escape +came when the region of +Seattle suffered an eclipse of the +sun, which was not an eclipse but +a near shadow, which was not a +shadow but a thing. The darkness +drifted out of the northern Pacific. +It generated thunder without lightning +and without rain. When it had +moved eastward and the hot sun +reappeared, wind followed, a moderate +gale. The coast was battered +by sudden high waves, then hushed +in a bewilderment of fog.</p> + +<p>Before that appearance, radar +had gone crazy for an hour.</p> + +<p>The atmosphere buzzed with +aircraft. They went up in readiness +to shoot, but after the first sighting +reports only a few miles offshore, +that order was vehemently canceled—someone +in charge must have had a grain of sense. The +thing was not a plane, rocket or +missile. It was an animal.</p> + +<p>If you shoot an animal that resembles +an inflated gas-bag with +wings, and the wingspread happens +to be something over four miles tip +to tip, and the carcass drops on a +city—it’s not nice for the city.</p> + +<p>The Office of Continental Defense +deplored the lack of precedent. +But actually none was +needed. You just don’t drop four +miles of dead or dying alien flesh +on Seattle or any other part of a +swarming homeland. You wait till +it flies out over the ocean, if it will—the +most commodious ocean in +reach.</p> + + +<p class="tb">IT, or rather she, didn’t go back +over the Pacific, perhaps because +of the prevailing westerlies. +After the Seattle incident she +climbed to a great altitude above +the Rockies, apparently using an +updraft with very little wing-motion. +There was no means of calculating +her weight, or mass, or buoyancy. +Dead or injured, drift might +have carried her anywhere within +one or two hundred miles. Then +she seemed to be following the line +of the Platte and the Missouri. By +the end of the day she was circling +interminably over the huge complex +of St. Louis, hopelessly crying.</p> + +<p class="illus"><a name="png.003" id="png.003"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">76</span><span class="ns">]<br + /></span><img src="images/illus-76.jpg" width="461" height="700" + alt="planes monitoring the creature" title="" /></p> + +<p>She had a head, drawn back most +of the time into the bloated mass +of the body but thrusting forward +now and then on a short neck not +more than three hundred feet in +length. When she did that the blunt +turtle-like head could be observed, +<a name="png.004" id="png.004"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">77</span><span class="ns">] + </span>the gaping, toothless, suffering +mouth from which the thunder +came, and the soft-shining purple +eyes that searched the ground but +found nothing answering her need. +The skin-color was mud-brown +with some dull iridescence and +many peculiar marks resembling +weals or blisters. Along the belly +some observers saw half a mile of +paired protuberances that looked +like teats.</p> + +<p>She was unquestionably the +equivalent of a vertebrate. Two +web-footed legs were drawn up +close against the cigar-shaped body. +The vast, rather narrow, inflated +wings could not have been held or +moved in flight without a strong internal +skeleton and musculature. +Theorists later argued that she +must have come from a planet with +a high proportion of water surface, +a planet possibly larger than Earth +though of about the same mass and +with a similar atmosphere. She +could rise in Earth’s air. And before +each thunderous lament she +was seen to breathe.</p> + +<p>It was assumed that immense air +sacs within her body were inflated +or partly inflated when she left the +ship, possibly with some gas lighter +than nitrogen. Since it was inconceivable +that a vertebrate organism +could have survived entry into atmosphere +from an orbit 3400 miles +up, it was necessary to believe that +the ship had briefly descended, unobserved +and by unknown means, +probably on Earth’s night-side. +Later on the ship did descend as +far as atmosphere, for a <span class="nw">moment …</span></p> + +<p>St. Louis was partly evacuated. +There is no reliable estimate of the +loss of life and property from panic +and accident on the jammed roads +and rail lines. 1500 dead, 7400 injured +is the conservative figure.</p> + + +<p class="tb">AFTER a night and a day she +abandoned that area, flying +heavily eastward. The droning and +swooping gnats of aircraft plainly +distressed her. At first she had only +tried to avoid them, but now and +then during her eastward flight from +St. Louis she made short desperate +rushes against them, without skill +or much sign of intelligence, +screaming from a wide-open mouth +that could have swallowed a four-engine +bomber. Two aircraft were +lost over Cincinnati, by collision +with each other in trying to get out +of her way. Pilots were then ordered +to keep a distance of not less +than ten miles until such time as +she reached the Atlantic—if she +did—when she could safely be +shot down.</p> + +<p>She studied Chicago for a day.</p> + +<p>By that time Civil Defense was +better prepared. About a million +residents had already fled to open +country before she came, and the +loss of life was proportionately +smaller. She moved on. We have +no clue to the reason why great +cities should have attracted her, +<a name="png.005" id="png.005"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">78</span><span class="ns">] + </span>though apparently they did. She +was hungry perhaps, or seeking +help, or merely drawn in animal +curiosity by the endless motion of +the cities and the strangeness. It +has even been suggested that the +life forms of her homeland—her +masters—resembled humanity. She +moved eastward, and religious organizations +united to pray that she +would come down on one of the +lakes where she could safely be destroyed. +She didn’t.</p> + +<p>She approached Pittsburgh, +choked and screamed and flew high, +and soared in weary circles over +Buffalo for a day and a night. Some +pilots who had followed the flight +from the West Coast claimed that +the vast lamentation of her voice +was growing fainter and hoarser +while she was drifting along the +line of the Mohawk Valley. She +turned south, following the Hudson +at no great height. Sometimes +she appeared to be choking, the +labored inhalations harsh and prolonged, +like a cloud in agony.</p> + +<p>When she was over Westchester, +headquarters tripled the swarm +of interceptors and observation +planes. Squadrons from Connecticut +and southern New Jersey deployed +to form a monstrous funnel, +the small end before her, the large +end pointing out to open sea. +Heavy bombers closed in above, +laying a smoke screen at 10,000 +feet to discourage her from rising. +The ground shook with the drone +of jets, and with her crying.</p> + +<p>Multitudes had abandoned the +metropolitan area. Other multitudes +trusted to the subways, to +the narrow street canyons and to +the strength of concrete and steel. +Others climbed to a thousand high +places and watched, trusting the +laws of chance.</p> + +<p>She passed over Manhattan in +the evening—between 8:14 and +<span class="nw">8:27 P.M.</span>, July 16, 1976—at an +altitude of about 2000 feet. She +swerved away from the aircraft +that blanketed Long Island and the +Sound, swerved again as the southern +group buzzed her instead of +giving way. She made no attempt +to rise into the sun-crimsoned terror +of drifting smoke.</p> + + +<p class="tb">THE plan was intelligent. It +should have worked, but for one +fighter pilot who jumped the gun.</p> + +<p>He said later that he himself +couldn’t understand what happened. +It was court-martial testimony, +but his reputation had been +good. He was Bill Green—William +Hammond Green—of New London, +Connecticut, flying a one-man +jet fighter, well aware of the strictest +orders not to attack until the +target had moved at least ten miles +east of Sandy Hook. He said he +certainly had no previous intention +to violate orders. It was something +that just happened in his mind. A +sort of mental sneeze.</p> + +<p>His squadron was approaching +<a name="png.006" id="png.006"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">79</span><span class="ns">] + </span>Rockaway, the flying creature +about three miles ahead of him and +half a mile down. He was aware of +saying out loud to nobody: “Well, +she’s too big.” Then he was darting +out of formation, diving on her, giving +her one rocket-burst and reeling +off to the south at <span class="nw">840 MPH</span>.</p> + +<p>He never did locate or rejoin his +squadron, but he made it somehow +back to his home field. He climbed +out of the cockpit, they say, and +fell flat on his face.</p> + +<p>It seems likely that his shot +missed the animal’s head and tore +through some part of her left wing. +She spun to the left, rose perhaps +a thousand feet, facing the city, +sideslipped, recovered herself and +fought for altitude. She could not +gain it. In the effort she collided +with two of the following planes. +One of them smashed into her right +side behind the wing, the other +flipped end over end across her +back, like a swatted dragonfly. It +dropped clear and made a mess on +Bedloe’s Island.</p> + +<p>She too was falling, in a long +slant, silent now but still living. +After the impact her body thrashed +desolately on the wreckage between +Lexington and Seventh +Avenues, her right wing churning, +then only trailing, in the East +River, her left wing a crumpled +slowly deflating mass concealing +Times Square, Herald Square and +the garment district.</p> + +<p>At the close of the struggle her +neck extended, her turtle beak +grasping the top of Radio City. She +was still trying to pull herself up, +as the buoyant gasses hissed and +bubbled away through the gushing +holes in her side. Radio City collapsed +with her.</p> + +<p>For a long while after the roar +of descending rubble and her own +roaring had ceased, there was no +human noise except a melancholy +thunder of the planes.</p> + + +<p class="tb">THE apology came early next +morning.</p> + +<p>The spaceship was observed to +descend to the outer limits of atmosphere, +very briefly. A capsule +was released, with a parachute +timed to open at 40,000 feet and +come down quite neatly in Scarsdale. +Parachute, capsule and timing +device were of good workmanship.</p> + +<p>The communication engraved +on a plaque of metal (which still +defies analysis) was a hasty job, +the English slightly odd, with some +evidence of an incomplete understanding +of the situation. That the +visitors were themselves aware of +these deficiencies is indicated by +the text of the message itself.</p> + +<p class="apology"><small>Most sadly regret inexcusable +escape of livestock. While petting +same, one of our children +monkied (sp?) with airlock. Will +not happen again. Regret also +imperfect grasp of language, +learned through what you term +<a name="png.007" id="png.007"></a><span class="ns">[p</span><span + class="pgmark">80</span><span class="ns">] + </span>Television etc. Animal not dangerous, +but observe some accidental +damage caused, therefore +hasten to enclose reimbursement, +having taken liberty of +studying your highly ingenious +methods of exchange. Hope same +will be adequate, having estimated +deplorable inconvenience +to best of ability. Regret exceedingly +impossibility of communicating +further, as pressure of +time and prior obligations forbids. +Please accept heartfelt +apologies and assurances of continuing +esteem.</small></p> + +<p>The reimbursement was in fact +properly enclosed with the plaque, +and may be seen by the public in +the rotunda of the restoration of +Radio City. Though technically +counterfeit, it looks like perfectly +good money, except that Mr. Lincoln +is missing one of his wrinkles +and the words “FIVE DOLLARS” +are upside down.</p> + +<p class="right">—<b>EDGAR PANGBORN</b></p> + +</div> + + +<hr class="pg" /> + + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Good Neighbors, by Edgar Pangborn + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GOOD NEIGHBORS *** + +***** This file should be named 26536-h.htm or 26536-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/2/6/5/3/26536/ + +Produced by Greg Weeks, David Wilson and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Good Neighbors + +Author: Edgar Pangborn + +Release Date: September 5, 2008 [EBook #26536] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GOOD NEIGHBORS *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, David Wilson and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + | | + | Transcriber's note. | + | | + | This story was published in _Galaxy_ magazine, June 1960. | + | Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the | + | U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed. | + | | + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + + + + +By EDGAR PANGBORN + +The Good Neighbors + + + You can't blame an alien for + a little inconvenience--as + long as he makes up for it! + +Illustrated by WOOD + + +The ship was sighted a few times, briefly and without a good fix. It was +spherical, the estimated diameter about twenty-seven miles, and was in +an orbit approximately 3400 miles from the surface of the Earth. No one +observed the escape from it. + +The ship itself occasioned some excitement, but back there at the +tattered end of the 20th century, what was one visiting spaceship more +or less? Others had appeared before, and gone away discouraged--or just +not bothering. 3-dimensional TV was coming out of the experimental +stage. Soon anyone could have Dora the Doll or the Grandson of Tarzan +smack in his own living-room. Besides, it was a hot summer. + +The first knowledge of the escape came when the region of Seattle +suffered an eclipse of the sun, which was not an eclipse but a near +shadow, which was not a shadow but a thing. The darkness drifted out of +the northern Pacific. It generated thunder without lightning and without +rain. When it had moved eastward and the hot sun reappeared, wind +followed, a moderate gale. The coast was battered by sudden high waves, +then hushed in a bewilderment of fog. + +Before that appearance, radar had gone crazy for an hour. + +The atmosphere buzzed with aircraft. They went up in readiness to shoot, +but after the first sighting reports only a few miles offshore, that +order was vehemently canceled--someone in charge must have had a grain +of sense. The thing was not a plane, rocket or missile. It was an +animal. + +If you shoot an animal that resembles an inflated gas-bag with wings, +and the wingspread happens to be something over four miles tip to tip, +and the carcass drops on a city--it's not nice for the city. + +The Office of Continental Defense deplored the lack of precedent. But +actually none was needed. You just don't drop four miles of dead or +dying alien flesh on Seattle or any other part of a swarming homeland. +You wait till it flies out over the ocean, if it will--the most +commodious ocean in reach. + + +It, or rather she, didn't go back over the Pacific, perhaps because of +the prevailing westerlies. After the Seattle incident she climbed to a +great altitude above the Rockies, apparently using an updraft with very +little wing-motion. There was no means of calculating her weight, or +mass, or buoyancy. Dead or injured, drift might have carried her +anywhere within one or two hundred miles. Then she seemed to be +following the line of the Platte and the Missouri. By the end of the day +she was circling interminably over the huge complex of St. Louis, +hopelessly crying. + +[Illustration] + +She had a head, drawn back most of the time into the bloated mass of the +body but thrusting forward now and then on a short neck not more than +three hundred feet in length. When she did that the blunt turtle-like +head could be observed, the gaping, toothless, suffering mouth from +which the thunder came, and the soft-shining purple eyes that searched +the ground but found nothing answering her need. The skin-color was +mud-brown with some dull iridescence and many peculiar marks resembling +weals or blisters. Along the belly some observers saw half a mile of +paired protuberances that looked like teats. + +She was unquestionably the equivalent of a vertebrate. Two web-footed +legs were drawn up close against the cigar-shaped body. The vast, rather +narrow, inflated wings could not have been held or moved in flight +without a strong internal skeleton and musculature. Theorists later +argued that she must have come from a planet with a high proportion of +water surface, a planet possibly larger than Earth though of about the +same mass and with a similar atmosphere. She could rise in Earth's air. +And before each thunderous lament she was seen to breathe. + +It was assumed that immense air sacs within her body were inflated or +partly inflated when she left the ship, possibly with some gas lighter +than nitrogen. Since it was inconceivable that a vertebrate organism +could have survived entry into atmosphere from an orbit 3400 miles up, +it was necessary to believe that the ship had briefly descended, +unobserved and by unknown means, probably on Earth's night-side. Later +on the ship did descend as far as atmosphere, for a moment ... + +St. Louis was partly evacuated. There is no reliable estimate of the +loss of life and property from panic and accident on the jammed roads +and rail lines. 1500 dead, 7400 injured is the conservative figure. + + +After a night and a day she abandoned that area, flying heavily +eastward. The droning and swooping gnats of aircraft plainly distressed +her. At first she had only tried to avoid them, but now and then during +her eastward flight from St. Louis she made short desperate rushes +against them, without skill or much sign of intelligence, screaming from +a wide-open mouth that could have swallowed a four-engine bomber. Two +aircraft were lost over Cincinnati, by collision with each other in +trying to get out of her way. Pilots were then ordered to keep a +distance of not less than ten miles until such time as she reached the +Atlantic--if she did--when she could safely be shot down. + +She studied Chicago for a day. + +By that time Civil Defense was better prepared. About a million +residents had already fled to open country before she came, and the loss +of life was proportionately smaller. She moved on. We have no clue to +the reason why great cities should have attracted her, though +apparently they did. She was hungry perhaps, or seeking help, or merely +drawn in animal curiosity by the endless motion of the cities and the +strangeness. It has even been suggested that the life forms of her +homeland--her masters--resembled humanity. She moved eastward, and +religious organizations united to pray that she would come down on one +of the lakes where she could safely be destroyed. She didn't. + +She approached Pittsburgh, choked and screamed and flew high, and soared +in weary circles over Buffalo for a day and a night. Some pilots who had +followed the flight from the West Coast claimed that the vast +lamentation of her voice was growing fainter and hoarser while she was +drifting along the line of the Mohawk Valley. She turned south, +following the Hudson at no great height. Sometimes she appeared to be +choking, the labored inhalations harsh and prolonged, like a cloud in +agony. + +When she was over Westchester, headquarters tripled the swarm of +interceptors and observation planes. Squadrons from Connecticut and +southern New Jersey deployed to form a monstrous funnel, the small end +before her, the large end pointing out to open sea. Heavy bombers closed +in above, laying a smoke screen at 10,000 feet to discourage her from +rising. The ground shook with the drone of jets, and with her crying. + +Multitudes had abandoned the metropolitan area. Other multitudes trusted +to the subways, to the narrow street canyons and to the strength of +concrete and steel. Others climbed to a thousand high places and +watched, trusting the laws of chance. + +She passed over Manhattan in the evening--between 8:14 and 8:27 P.M., +July 16, 1976--at an altitude of about 2000 feet. She swerved away from +the aircraft that blanketed Long Island and the Sound, swerved again as +the southern group buzzed her instead of giving way. She made no attempt +to rise into the sun-crimsoned terror of drifting smoke. + + +The plan was intelligent. It should have worked, but for one fighter +pilot who jumped the gun. + +He said later that he himself couldn't understand what happened. It was +court-martial testimony, but his reputation had been good. He was Bill +Green--William Hammond Green--of New London, Connecticut, flying a +one-man jet fighter, well aware of the strictest orders not to attack +until the target had moved at least ten miles east of Sandy Hook. He +said he certainly had no previous intention to violate orders. It was +something that just happened in his mind. A sort of mental sneeze. + +His squadron was approaching Rockaway, the flying creature about three +miles ahead of him and half a mile down. He was aware of saying out loud +to nobody: "Well, she's too big." Then he was darting out of formation, +diving on her, giving her one rocket-burst and reeling off to the south +at 840 MPH. + +He never did locate or rejoin his squadron, but he made it somehow back +to his home field. He climbed out of the cockpit, they say, and fell +flat on his face. + +It seems likely that his shot missed the animal's head and tore through +some part of her left wing. She spun to the left, rose perhaps a +thousand feet, facing the city, sideslipped, recovered herself and +fought for altitude. She could not gain it. In the effort she collided +with two of the following planes. One of them smashed into her right +side behind the wing, the other flipped end over end across her back, +like a swatted dragonfly. It dropped clear and made a mess on Bedloe's +Island. + +She too was falling, in a long slant, silent now but still living. After +the impact her body thrashed desolately on the wreckage between +Lexington and Seventh Avenues, her right wing churning, then only +trailing, in the East River, her left wing a crumpled slowly deflating +mass concealing Times Square, Herald Square and the garment district. + +At the close of the struggle her neck extended, her turtle beak grasping +the top of Radio City. She was still trying to pull herself up, as the +buoyant gasses hissed and bubbled away through the gushing holes in her +side. Radio City collapsed with her. + +For a long while after the roar of descending rubble and her own roaring +had ceased, there was no human noise except a melancholy thunder of the +planes. + + +The apology came early next morning. + +The spaceship was observed to descend to the outer limits of atmosphere, +very briefly. A capsule was released, with a parachute timed to open at +40,000 feet and come down quite neatly in Scarsdale. Parachute, capsule +and timing device were of good workmanship. + +The communication engraved on a plaque of metal (which still defies +analysis) was a hasty job, the English slightly odd, with some evidence +of an incomplete understanding of the situation. That the visitors were +themselves aware of these deficiencies is indicated by the text of the +message itself. + + Most sadly regret inexcusable escape of livestock. While + petting same, one of our children monkied (sp?) with airlock. + Will not happen again. Regret also imperfect grasp of + language, learned through what you term Television etc. + Animal not dangerous, but observe some accidental damage + caused, therefore hasten to enclose reimbursement, having + taken liberty of studying your highly ingenious methods of + exchange. Hope same will be adequate, having estimated + deplorable inconvenience to best of ability. Regret + exceedingly impossibility of communicating further, as + pressure of time and prior obligations forbids. Please accept + heartfelt apologies and assurances of continuing esteem. + +The reimbursement was in fact properly enclosed with the plaque, and may +be seen by the public in the rotunda of the restoration of Radio City. +Though technically counterfeit, it looks like perfectly good money, +except that Mr. Lincoln is missing one of his wrinkles and the words +"FIVE DOLLARS" are upside down. + + + --EDGAR PANGBORN + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Good Neighbors, by Edgar Pangborn + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GOOD NEIGHBORS *** + +***** This file should be named 26536.txt or 26536.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/2/6/5/3/26536/ + +Produced by Greg Weeks, David Wilson and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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