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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: Spacemen Never Die! + +Author: Morris Hershman + +Release Date: September 9, 2009 [EBook #29947] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SPACEMEN NEVER DIE! *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class="figl"> +<img src="images/001.png" width="379" height="500" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p class="pr1"><big><b>Henry knew his wife had been married once +before; now he expected her to start a new life +with him—but to her the past was alive, and—</b></big></p> + +<h1>SPACEMEN NEVER DIE!</h1> + +<h2><i>By Morris Hershman</i></h2> + +<p class="cap"><span class="dcap">Henry Weller</span> stood facing +a huge three-dimensional +picture on the wall of his +dining room.</p> + +<p>"Can't we get rid of it?" he +asked, turning to his wife. "I +mean, with all due respect, of +course."</p> + +<p>No man enjoys coming into his +dining room and having to sit at +meals and look at a full-sized picture +of his wife's first husband arriving +on Venus. Fair's fair, but +such a set-up is ridiculous.</p> + +<p>"No," Phoebe shook her blonde +head. "Don Manton loved me +and he was famous. I like to be +reminded of the days when my +picture was in all the telepapers +and my face on so many telescreens."</p> + +<p>She might just as well have called +him a tattered nonentity, though +Henry was doing pretty well as a +foreman in the local humandroid +factory. He was stopped from reminding +her by Phoebe's saying +that she'd leave for a bit of shopping. +She left abruptly.</p> + +<p>Henry watched her takeoff from +the roof of their two-story fibroid +house and went back to the dining +room. Now, even his warmest admirers +would give in that he had +a streak of stubbornness in him a +mile wide and six miles deep. +Henry took the three-dimensional +monstrosity off the wall, holding +it hard by thumb and forefinger +on its luminex frame, and prepared +to say good-by to the picture +of Don Manton.</p> + +<p>A foreman at one of the humandroid +shops has to be able to consider +alternatives and Henry had +done this. If he only hid the picture +there'd be a domestic crisis +and the picture would sooner or +later be back on the wall; if he +destroyed it there'd also be a crisis, +but one that would eventually +blow over.</p> + +<p>Unluckily for him, these three-dimensional +wall pictures were made +out of glaseine, and when he tried +setting fire to it he nearly burned +down the house. Upon feeding it to +the old-fashioned fireplace nothing +grew hot except his temper. Ripping +the picture to shreds would +have been the next step, but you +can't rip glaseine.</p> + +<p>For maybe the six millionth time +he cursed out Don Manton, the +well-known explorer in the realm +of outer space. Henry understood +in a general way that Don Manton +had been among the first to chart +the cities of Mars and Venus, and +had accidentally died on a planet +named Immel; but Henry had no +intention of living in Don Manton's +shadow.</p> + +<p>The picture, which showed the +late explorer talking with three +Venusians, had been hung up again +when Phoebe came through the +ceiling door along the extension +stairway which flicked up to meet +her.</p> + +<p>"You've been trying to get rid +of Don's picture!"</p> + +<p>He'd hung it crookedly, and a +diagonal slash of white wallpaper +had given him away.</p> + +<p>"Just this one. You've got cans +of telefilm in the cellar, but them +I don't mind. This," he flicked it +with a thumbnail, "I do mind."</p> + +<p>"As long as I stay," Phoebe said +quietly, "my darling Don's picture +stays."</p> + +<p>"But what about your darling +Henry? Am I just a humandroid +who looks and behaves and talks +like a human being? Haven't I +got feelings?" Henry strode around +the room, hitting the fibroid floor +like a prehistoric monster on a +sandpaper bridge. "Either that +picture goes," he said finally, definitely, +"or I go!"</p> + +<p>Phoebe shook out her blonde +hair, letting it fall about her +shoulders. "Too bad."</p> + +<hr /> + +<p class="cap"><span class="dcap">Inside</span> of an hour he had packed +his suitcases. Phoebe cried +bitterly, but wouldn't budge about +the picture. Henry took the plane. +He put up at his club, went to the +bar, and was gobbling down something +called pressurized scotch, +when he heard a noise back of him.</p> + +<p>"Get away from me!" said Henry, +who was quite a few over the +traditional eight by this time. +"I've had enough of Don Manton, +let alone his helpers."</p> + +<p>Speed Roggs, who had taken a +couple of trips with Manton, was +tall and thin as the barstool, and +with a spaceman's ability to think +fast when he had to. Loudly he ordered +a Venuswiz, explaining to a +disgusted Henry, "After the barkeep +mixes the drink he melts the +swizzle stick and pours that in, +too." He gulped the stuff down +gratefully, then said, "Tell me +your troubles, Hank."</p> + +<p>Henry did. Speed Roggs looked +disgusted. "Are you serious?" +he asked, and when Henry swore +to cut Speed's throat on asking +that again, went on, "Women are +space-mad!"</p> + +<p>As Henry agreed, Roggs said, +"The one thing you don't understand +about Don Manton is that +he was maladjusted. He couldn't +stay still, he always wanted what +he couldn't have. That goes for +his feelings for women, too."</p> + +<p>Henry looked up with bloodshot +eyes nearly popping out of his +head.</p> + +<p>Roggs kept going. "Don and +Phoebe never got along once they +were married. It was Manton's +fault. Like all explorers he was +unhappy over his lot and looked +beyond the rainbow. In fact, he +told me once that the only reason +he went in for exploring space +was to get away from his wife."</p> + +<p>Henry Weller suddenly rocked +with laughter. He got to his feet, +took Roggs, and went to his +room, still laughing. He lay on +the bed for half an hour. At the +end of that time he sat up.</p> + +<p>"Tell the manager I won't be +here for supper," he said to Speed. +"I've got a little trip to make."</p> + +<p>"Where are you going?"</p> + +<p>"Home, to give the good tidings +to my wife."</p> + +<p>Henry's fibroid house looked +about the same. He parked the +plane and let himself in by the +roof door and down the extension +staircase. He found Phoebe in the +kitchen bent over a pot, and at +sound of him she turned. A near-smile +flickered in her blue eyes.</p> + +<p>"Phoebe ..."</p> + +<p>"Henry ..."</p> + +<p>They laughed together. Henry +wanted to tell her what he knew +as bitterly and maliciously as possible, +but he simply opened his +mouth a few times. He couldn't +say it. Everyone is entitled to an +illusion and this was Phoebe, his +blonde wench, his wife, his woman. +He looked a bit sick.</p> + +<p>She smiled. "Come into the dining room."</p> + +<p>The three-dimensional picture +had been rolled up into the corner. +Henry promised to put it away in +the cellar and clean up the cellar +as soon as he could. Phoebe said +that her first husband had never +liked to stay home, he'd always +been afraid to live normally.</p> + +<p>"I was wrong about the picture," +she told him, "and I didn't +know till I saw you leave the +house."</p> + +<p>It goes without saying that Henry +and his Phoebe lived happily +ever after, but it is perhaps not +so well known that Phoebe was +left with a little disposal problem, +too. She had a rough time finding +a buyer (in secret, of course) +for her brand-new humandroid, who +looked and behaved and talked so +exactly like that well-known flyer, +Speed Roggs....</p> + +<div class="trn"><div class="figt"><a href="images/002-2.jpg"><img src="images/002-1.jpg" width="146" height="200" alt="" title="" /></a></div> + +<p><big><b>Transcriber's Note:</b></big></p> + +<p>This etext was produced from <i>Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy</i> August 1953. +Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. +copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and +typographical errors have been corrected without note.</p></div> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Spacemen Never Die!, by Morris Hershman + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SPACEMEN NEVER DIE! *** + +***** This file should be named 29947-h.htm or 29947-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/2/9/9/4/29947/ + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell 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: Spacemen Never Die! + +Author: Morris Hershman + +Release Date: September 9, 2009 [EBook #29947] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SPACEMEN NEVER DIE! *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + +[Illustration] + + + Henry knew his wife had been married once + before; now he expected her to start a new life + with him--but to her the past was alive, and-- + + SPACEMEN NEVER DIE! + + _By Morris Hershman_ + + +Henry Weller stood facing a huge three-dimensional picture on the wall +of his dining room. + +"Can't we get rid of it?" he asked, turning to his wife. "I mean, with +all due respect, of course." + +No man enjoys coming into his dining room and having to sit at meals and +look at a full-sized picture of his wife's first husband arriving on +Venus. Fair's fair, but such a set-up is ridiculous. + +"No," Phoebe shook her blonde head. "Don Manton loved me and he was +famous. I like to be reminded of the days when my picture was in all the +telepapers and my face on so many telescreens." + +She might just as well have called him a tattered nonentity, though +Henry was doing pretty well as a foreman in the local humandroid +factory. He was stopped from reminding her by Phoebe's saying that she'd +leave for a bit of shopping. She left abruptly. + +Henry watched her takeoff from the roof of their two-story fibroid house +and went back to the dining room. Now, even his warmest admirers would +give in that he had a streak of stubbornness in him a mile wide and six +miles deep. Henry took the three-dimensional monstrosity off the wall, +holding it hard by thumb and forefinger on its luminex frame, and +prepared to say good-by to the picture of Don Manton. + +A foreman at one of the humandroid shops has to be able to consider +alternatives and Henry had done this. If he only hid the picture there'd +be a domestic crisis and the picture would sooner or later be back on +the wall; if he destroyed it there'd also be a crisis, but one that +would eventually blow over. + +Unluckily for him, these three-dimensional wall pictures were made out +of glaseine, and when he tried setting fire to it he nearly burned down +the house. Upon feeding it to the old-fashioned fireplace nothing grew +hot except his temper. Ripping the picture to shreds would have been the +next step, but you can't rip glaseine. + +For maybe the six millionth time he cursed out Don Manton, the +well-known explorer in the realm of outer space. Henry understood in a +general way that Don Manton had been among the first to chart the cities +of Mars and Venus, and had accidentally died on a planet named Immel; +but Henry had no intention of living in Don Manton's shadow. + +The picture, which showed the late explorer talking with three +Venusians, had been hung up again when Phoebe came through the ceiling +door along the extension stairway which flicked up to meet her. + +"You've been trying to get rid of Don's picture!" + +He'd hung it crookedly, and a diagonal slash of white wallpaper had +given him away. + +"Just this one. You've got cans of telefilm in the cellar, but them I +don't mind. This," he flicked it with a thumbnail, "I do mind." + +"As long as I stay," Phoebe said quietly, "my darling Don's picture +stays." + +"But what about your darling Henry? Am I just a humandroid who looks and +behaves and talks like a human being? Haven't I got feelings?" Henry +strode around the room, hitting the fibroid floor like a prehistoric +monster on a sandpaper bridge. "Either that picture goes," he said +finally, definitely, "or I go!" + +Phoebe shook out her blonde hair, letting it fall about her shoulders. +"Too bad." + + * * * * * + +Inside of an hour he had packed his suitcases. Phoebe cried bitterly, +but wouldn't budge about the picture. Henry took the plane. He put up at +his club, went to the bar, and was gobbling down something called +pressurized scotch, when he heard a noise back of him. + +"Get away from me!" said Henry, who was quite a few over the traditional +eight by this time. "I've had enough of Don Manton, let alone his +helpers." + +Speed Roggs, who had taken a couple of trips with Manton, was tall and +thin as the barstool, and with a spaceman's ability to think fast when +he had to. Loudly he ordered a Venuswiz, explaining to a disgusted +Henry, "After the barkeep mixes the drink he melts the swizzle stick and +pours that in, too." He gulped the stuff down gratefully, then said, +"Tell me your troubles, Hank." + +Henry did. Speed Roggs looked disgusted. "Are you serious?" he asked, +and when Henry swore to cut Speed's throat on asking that again, went +on, "Women are space-mad!" + +As Henry agreed, Roggs said, "The one thing you don't understand about +Don Manton is that he was maladjusted. He couldn't stay still, he always +wanted what he couldn't have. That goes for his feelings for women, +too." + +Henry looked up with bloodshot eyes nearly popping out of his head. + +Roggs kept going. "Don and Phoebe never got along once they were +married. It was Manton's fault. Like all explorers he was unhappy over +his lot and looked beyond the rainbow. In fact, he told me once that the +only reason he went in for exploring space was to get away from his +wife." + +Henry Weller suddenly rocked with laughter. He got to his feet, took +Roggs, and went to his room, still laughing. He lay on the bed for half +an hour. At the end of that time he sat up. + +"Tell the manager I won't be here for supper," he said to Speed. "I've +got a little trip to make." + +"Where are you going?" + +"Home, to give the good tidings to my wife." + +Henry's fibroid house looked about the same. He parked the plane and let +himself in by the roof door and down the extension staircase. He found +Phoebe in the kitchen bent over a pot, and at sound of him she turned. A +near-smile flickered in her blue eyes. + +"Phoebe ..." + +"Henry ..." + +They laughed together. Henry wanted to tell her what he knew as bitterly +and maliciously as possible, but he simply opened his mouth a few times. +He couldn't say it. Everyone is entitled to an illusion and this was +Phoebe, his blonde wench, his wife, his woman. He looked a bit sick. + +She smiled. "Come into the dining room." + +The three-dimensional picture had been rolled up into the corner. Henry +promised to put it away in the cellar and clean up the cellar as soon as +he could. Phoebe said that her first husband had never liked to stay +home, he'd always been afraid to live normally. + +"I was wrong about the picture," she told him, "and I didn't know till I +saw you leave the house." + +It goes without saying that Henry and his Phoebe lived happily ever +after, but it is perhaps not so well known that Phoebe was left with a +little disposal problem, too. She had a rough time finding a buyer (in +secret, of course) for her brand-new humandroid, who looked and behaved +and talked so exactly like that well-known flyer, Speed Roggs.... + + + + +Transcriber's Note: + + This etext was produced from _Imagination Stories of Science and + Fantasy_ August 1953. 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