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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: It's a Small Solar System + +Author: Allan Howard + +Release Date: March 29, 2009 [EBook #28437] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IT'S A SMALL SOLAR SYSTEM *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class="bk1"><p><small><i>Frederik Pohl wrote recently about the time, when he was young, when +he spent more time in Barsoom than in Brooklyn. Allan Howard, Director +of the Eastern Science Fiction Association in Newark, takes us back +to those nostalgic days in this vignette of man's first hours on Mars.</i></small></p></div> + +<div class="bk2"><h1><b>it's<br /> +a<br /> +small<br /> +solar<br /> +system</b></h1> + +<h2><i><small>by ALLAN HOWARD</small></i></h2> + +<p class="pr1"><b><big>Soon the three representatives of Earth were walking +shoulder to shoulder, the Captain first to touch soil.</big></b></p></div> + +<p><span class="dcap">Know him?</span></p> + +<p>Well you might say I practically +grew up with him. He +was my hero in those days. I +thought few wiser or greater +men ever lived. In my eyes he +was greater than Babe Ruth, +Lindy, or the President.</p> + +<p>Of course, time, and my +growing up caused me to +bring him into a perspective +that I felt to be more consonant +with his true position in +his field of endeavor. When +he died his friends mourned +for fond remembrance of +things past, but privately +many of them felt that he had +outlived his best days. Now +with this glorious vindication, +I wonder how many of them +are still alive to feel the +twinge of conscience....</p> + +<p>Oh, we're delighted of +course, but it seems incredible +even today to us elated oldsters. +Although we were always +his staunchest admirers, +in retrospect we can see now +that no one believed more +than we that he did it strictly +for the dollar. It is likely +there was always a small +corps of starry-eyed adolescents +who found the whole +improbable saga entirely believable, +or at least half believed +it might be partly true. +The attitude of the rest of us +ranged from a patronizing +disparagement that we thought +was expected of us, through +grudging admiration, to out-and-out +enthusiasm.</p> + +<p>Certainly if anybody had +taken the trouble to consider +it—and why should they +have?—the landing of the +first manned ship on our +satellite seemed to render +him as obsolete as a horde of +other lesser and even greater +lights. At any rate, it was +inevitable that the conquest +of the moon would be merely +a stepping-stone to more distant +points.</p> + +<p>Oh, no, I had nothing to do +with the selection of the Red +Planet. Coming in as head of +Project P-4 in its latter +stages, as I did when Dr. +Fredericks died, the selection +had already been made. Yes, +it's quite likely I may have +been plugging for Mars below +the conscious level. A combination +of chance, expediency +and popular demand made +Mars the next target, rather +than Venus, which was, in +some ways, the more logical +goal. I would have given anything +to have gone, but the +metaphorical stout heart that +one reporter once credited me +with is not the same as an old +man's actual fatty heart.</p> + +<p>And there were heartbreak +years ahead before the <i>Goddard</i> +was finally ready. During +this time he slipped further +into obscurity while big, +important things were happening +all around us. You're +right, that one really big creation +of his <i>is</i> bigger than +ever. It has passed into the +language, and meant employment +for thousands of people. +Too few of them have even +heard of him. Of course, he +was still known and welcomed +by a small circle of acquaintances, +but to the world at +large he was truly a "forgotten +man."</p> + +<p>It is worthy of note that +one of the oldest of these acquaintances +was present at +blast-off time. He happened +to be the grandfather of a certain +competent young crewman. +The old man was a proud +figure during the brief ceremonies +and his eyes filled +with tears as the mighty +rocket climbed straight up on +its fiery tail. He remained +there gazing up at the sky +long after it had vanished.</p> + +<p>He was heard to murmur, +"I am glad the kid could go, +but it is just a lark to him. He +never had a 'sense of wonder.' +How could he—nobody +reads anymore."</p> + +<p>Afterward, his senile emotions +betraying him, he broke +down completely and had to +be led from the field. It is rumored +he did not live long after +that.</p> + +<p>The <i>Goddard</i> drove on until +Mars filled the viz-screen. It +was planned to make at least +a half-dozen braking passes +around the planet for observational +purposes before the +actual business of bringing +the ship in for landfall began. +As expected the atmosphere +proved to be thin. The +speculated dead-sea areas, +oddly enough, turned out to +be just that. To the surprise +of some, it was soon evident +that Mars possessed, or had +possessed, a high civilization. +The <i>canali</i> of Schiaparelli +were indeed broad waterways +stretching from pole to pole, +too regular to be anything but +the work of intelligence. But +most wonderful of all were +the scattered, but fairly numerous +large, walled cities +that dotted the world. Everybody +was excited, eager to +land and start exercising their +specialties.</p> + +<p>One of the largest of these +cities was selected more or +less at random. It was decided +to set down just outside, +yet far enough from the walls +to avoid any possibility of +damage from the landing jets +in the event the city was inhabited. +Even if deserted, the +entire scientific personnel +would have raised a howl that +would have been heard back +on Earth if just a section of +wall was scorched. When +planet-fall was completed and +observers had time to scan +the surroundings it was seen +that the city was very much +alive.</p> + +<p>"What keeps them up!" +marvelled Kopchainski, the +aeronautics and rocketry authority.</p> + +<p>The sky swarmed with +ships of strange design. The +walls were crowded with inhabitants, +too far away for detailed +observation. Even as +they looked an enormous gate +opened and a procession of +mounted figures emerged. In +the event the place was deserted, +the Captain would have +had the honor of being the +first to touch Martian soil. +While atmospheric and other +checks were being run, he +gave orders for the previously +decided alternative. Captain, +semanticist and anthropologist +would make the First +Contact.</p> + +<p>With all checks agreeing +that it was safe to open locks, +soon the three representatives +of Earth were walking +shoulder to shoulder down +the ramp. It was apparent that +the two scientists purposely +missed stride inches from the +end, so that it was the Captain's +foot that actually +touched ground first.</p> + +<p>The cavalcade—though +these beasties were certainly +not horses—was now near +enough to the ship for details +to be seen. Surprise and wonderment +filled the crew, for +while the multi-legged steeds +were as alien as anyone might +expect to find on an alien +world, the riders were very +definitely humanoid. Briefly, +brightly and barbarically +trapped as they were by +earthly standards, they +seemed to be little distinguishable +from homegrown +homo saps.</p> + +<p>The approaching company +appeared to be armed mainly +with swords and lances, but +also in evidence were some tubular +affairs that could very +well be some sort of projectile-discharging +device. The Captain +suddenly felt unaccountably +warm. It was a heavy responsibility—he +hoped these +Martians wouldn't be the +type of madmen who believed +in the "shoot first, inquire +later" theory.</p> + +<p>Even as he stood there, outwardly +calm but jittering internally, +the Martian riders +pulled up ten feet from the +Earthmen. Their leader, tall, +dark-haired, and subtly lighter +in hue than his companions, +dismounted and approached +the Captain. With outstretched +hand he took the +Captain's in a firm grip.</p> + +<p>Let it be recorded here, to +the shame of an Earth where +reading for pleasure is virtually +a lost pastime, that not +one man on the <i>Goddard</i> realized +the significance of what +followed.</p> + +<p>"How do you do?" he said +in perfect English, with an +unmistakable trace of Southern +accent.</p> + +<p>"Welcome to Barsoom! My +name is John Carter."</p> + +<div class="trn"><b>Transcriber's Note:</b> +This etext was produced from <i>Fantastic Universe</i> September 1957. +Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. +copyright on this publication was renewed. 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