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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 World That Couldn't Be - -Author: Clifford Donald Simak - -Illustrator: Gaughan - -Release Date: April 17, 2010 [EBook #32026] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WORLD THAT COULDN'T BE *** - - - - -Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 32026 ***</div> <div class="tr"><p class="center">Transcriber's Note:</p> <p class="center">This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction January 1958. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.</p></div> <p> </p> <div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> -<img class="img1" src="images/cover.jpg" width="400" height="526" alt="" title="" /> +<img class="img1" src="images/cover.jpg" alt="" title="" style="width: 400px; height: 526px"> </div> <p> </p> <h1>The World That Couldn't Be</h1> @@ -142,8 +96,8 @@ Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net anything that damaged his crops—even though he was aware this was—</i></p></div> -<hr style="width: 65%;" /> -<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_t1.jpg" alt="T" width="45" height="50" /></div> +<hr style="width: 65%;" > +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_t1.jpg" alt="T" style="width: 45px; height: 50px"></div> <p>he tracks went up one row and down another, and in those rows the <i>vua</i> plants had been sheared off an inch or two above the ground. The raider had been methodical; it had not wandered about haphazardly, but @@ -154,7 +108,7 @@ down into the great pug marks, sunk deep into the finely cultivated loam.</p> <div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> -<img src="images/image_001.jpg" width="600" height="539" alt="" title="" /> +<img src="images/image_001.jpg" alt="" title="" style="width: 600px; height: 539px"> </div> <p>Somewhere a sawmill bird was whirring through a log, and down in one @@ -190,8 +144,8 @@ failed to overhaul it, then he must keep on.</p> anything that damages my crop. A few nights more of this and there would be nothing left."</p> -<hr style="width: 45%;" /> -<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_j.jpg" alt="J" width="22" height="40" /></div> +<hr style="width: 45%;" > +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_j.jpg" alt="J" style="width: 22px; height: 40px"></div> <p>amming the bandanna back into his pocket, he tilted his hat lower across his eyes against the sun.</p> @@ -244,8 +198,8 @@ and caboodle of you. I can get other tribes to work the farm."</p> <p>"You have your choice," Duncan told it coldly.</p> -<hr style="width: 45%;" /> -<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_h.jpg" alt="H" width="41" height="40" /></div> +<hr style="width: 45%;" > +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_h.jpg" alt="H" style="width: 41px; height: 40px"></div> <p>e plodded back across the field toward the house. Not much of a house as yet. Not a great deal better than a native shack. But someday it would be, he told himself. Let him sell a crop or two and he'd build a @@ -299,8 +253,8 @@ a brackish liquid out of a big stew pan into their cups.</p> <p>God, he thought, what I would give for a cup of coffee.</p> -<hr style="width: 45%;" /> -<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_s.jpg" alt="S" width="26" height="40" /></div> +<hr style="width: 45%;" > +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_s.jpg" alt="S" style="width: 26px; height: 40px"></div> <p>hotwell pulled up his chair. "You didn't answer me. What is a Cytha like?"</p> @@ -362,8 +316,8 @@ to exclaim that a sexless animal, a sexless race, a sexless planet is impossible, but that is what we have. Somewhere there is an answer and I have to find it."</p> -<hr style="width: 45%;" /> -<div class="figleft1"><img src="images/image_n1.jpg" alt="N" width="63" height="40" /></div> +<hr style="width: 45%;" > +<div class="figleft1"><img src="images/image_n1.jpg" alt="N" style="width: 63px; height: 40px"></div> <p>ow hold up a minute," Duncan protested. "There's no use blowing a gasket. I haven't got the time this morning to listen to your lecture."</p> @@ -420,7 +374,7 @@ open the door and strode out.</p> <h2>II</h2> -<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_d.jpg" alt="D" width="38" height="40" /></div> +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_d.jpg" alt="D" style="width: 38px; height: 40px"></div> <p>uncan got his first shot late in the afternoon of that first day.</p> <p>In the middle of the morning, two hours after they had left the farm, @@ -471,8 +425,8 @@ him, the binoculars bumping on his back. Swift, vicious insects ran out of the grass and swarmed across his hands and arms and one got on his face and bit him.</p> -<hr style="width: 45%;" /> -<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_h.jpg" alt="H" width="41" height="40" /></div> +<hr style="width: 45%;" > +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_h.jpg" alt="H" style="width: 41px; height: 40px"></div> <p>e made it to the hilltop and lay there, looking at the sweep of land beyond. It was more of the same, more of the blistering, dusty slogging, more of thorn and tangled ravine and awful emptiness.</p> @@ -537,8 +491,8 @@ was the tracker.</p> <p>"It's all right, Sipar," he said. "You can quit worrying. I got it. We can go home now."</p> -<hr style="width: 45%;" /> -<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_i.jpg" alt="I" width="19" height="40" /></div> +<hr style="width: 45%;" > +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_i.jpg" alt="I" style="width: 19px; height: 40px"></div> <p>t had been a long, hard chase, longer than he had thought it might be. But it had been successful and that was the thing that counted. For the moment, the <i>vua</i> crop was safe.</p> @@ -591,8 +545,8 @@ still wet and glistening upon the fabric of his trousers, he felt the first cold touch of fear, as if the fingertips of fear might momentarily, almost casually, have trailed across his heart.</p> -<hr style="width: 45%;" /> -<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_h.jpg" alt="H" width="41" height="40" /></div> +<hr style="width: 45%;" > +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_h.jpg" alt="H" style="width: 41px; height: 40px"></div> <p>e turned around and walked back to the native, reached down and shook it.</p> @@ -654,8 +608,8 @@ its palm.</p> it," he said, almost kindly. "It isn't much, but it gives you strength. We'll need strength tomorrow."</p> -<hr style="width: 45%;" /> -<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_f.jpg" alt="F" width="32" height="40" /></div> +<hr style="width: 45%;" > +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_f.jpg" alt="F" style="width: 32px; height: 40px"></div> <p>ood-giver, eh? Trying to butter him up, perhaps. In a little while, Sipar would start whining for him to knock off the hunt and head back for the farm.</p> @@ -710,10 +664,10 @@ doing no more than pulling our legs.</p> <p>What a fantastic bunch of jerks! Not men, not women, just things. And while there were never babies, there were children, although never less than eight or nine years old. And if there were no babies, where -did the eight-and nine-year-olds come from?</p> +did the eight- and nine-year-olds come from?</p> -<hr style="width: 45%;" /> -<div class="figleft1"><img src="images/image_i1.jpg" alt="I" width="35" height="40" /></div> +<hr style="width: 45%;" > +<div class="figleft1"><img src="images/image_i1.jpg" alt="I" style="width: 35px; height: 40px"></div> <p> suppose," he said, "that these other things that are your taboos, the stilt-birds and the screamers and the like, also grew up with you."</p> @@ -773,7 +727,7 @@ native came straight up out of sleep.</p> <h2>III</h2> -<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_d.jpg" alt="D" width="38" height="40" /></div> +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_d.jpg" alt="D" style="width: 38px; height: 40px"></div> <p>uncan did not see the arrow coming. He heard the swishing whistle and felt the wind of it on the right side of his throat and then it thunked into a tree behind him.</p> @@ -838,13 +792,13 @@ one. Do you recognize it?"</p> <p>"What would child do way out here?"</p> <div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> -<img src="images/image_002.jpg" width="400" height="556" alt="" title="" /> +<img src="images/image_002.jpg" alt="" title="" style="width: 400px; height: 556px"> </div> <p>"That's what I thought, too," said Duncan.</p> -<hr style="width: 45%;" /> -<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_h.jpg" alt="H" width="41" height="40" /></div> +<hr style="width: 45%;" > +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_h.jpg" alt="H" style="width: 41px; height: 40px"></div> <p>e took the arrow back, held it between his thumbs and forefingers and twirled it slowly, with a terrifying thought nibbling at his brain. It couldn't be. It was too fantastic. He wondered if the sun was finally @@ -893,8 +847,8 @@ that Sipar knew far more about than it was willing to divulge.</p> continued at its work. It was, for all to see, the good and faithful hound.</p> -<hr style="width: 45%;" /> -<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_l.jpg" alt="L" width="33" height="40" /></div> +<hr style="width: 45%;" > +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_l.jpg" alt="L" style="width: 33px; height: 40px"></div> <p>ate in the afternoon, the plain on which they had been traveling suddenly dropped away. They stood poised on the brink of a great escarpment and looked far out to great tangled forests and a flowing @@ -963,8 +917,8 @@ way.</p> in and they hurried to gather firewood. There was no water, but a little was still left in their canteens and they made do with that.</p> -<hr style="width: 45%;" /> -<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_a.jpg" alt="A" width="37" height="40" /></div> +<hr style="width: 45%;" > +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_a.jpg" alt="A" style="width: 37px; height: 40px"></div> <p>fter their scant meal of rockahominy, Sipar rolled himself into a ball and went to sleep immediately.</p> @@ -1016,8 +970,8 @@ he heard the faint beginning of a rumble. He straightened swiftly to face the scarp that blotted out the star-strewn sky—and the rumble grew!</p> -<hr style="width: 45%;" /> -<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_i.jpg" alt="I" width="19" height="40" /></div> +<hr style="width: 45%;" > +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_i.jpg" alt="I" style="width: 19px; height: 40px"></div> <p>n one leap, he was at Sipar's side. He reached down and grasped the native by an arm, jerked it erect, held it on its feet. Sipar's eyes snapped open, blinking in the firelight.</p> @@ -1064,8 +1018,8 @@ canteens and the fire.</p> <p>"We'll have to hole up somewhere for the night," Duncan said. "There are screamers on the loose."</p> -<hr style="width: 45%;" /> -<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_h.jpg" alt="H" width="41" height="40" /></div> +<hr style="width: 45%;" > +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_h.jpg" alt="H" style="width: 41px; height: 40px"></div> <p>e didn't like what he was thinking, nor the sharp edge of fear that was beginning to crowd in upon him. He tried to shrug it off, but it still stayed with him, just out of reach.</p> @@ -1102,7 +1056,7 @@ could be started, with a push, down the slope above the campfire.</p> <h2>IV</h2> -<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_n.jpg" alt="N" width="37" height="40" /></div> +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_n.jpg" alt="N" style="width: 37px; height: 40px"></div> <p>ow it was more than just a hunt. It was knife against the throat, kill or be killed. Now there was no stopping, when before there might have been. It was no longer sport and there was no mercy.</p> @@ -1162,8 +1116,8 @@ heartbeats, wake and sleep, had pointed toward this certain hour upon this certain stream, with the rifle molded to his hand and the cool, calculated bloodlust of a killer riding in his brain.</p> -<hr style="width: 45%;" /> -<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_s.jpg" alt="S" width="26" height="40" /></div> +<hr style="width: 45%;" > +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_s.jpg" alt="S" style="width: 26px; height: 40px"></div> <p>ipar finally got up and began to range along the stream. Duncan sat up and watched.</p> @@ -1229,7 +1183,7 @@ the native cut its throat.</p> <h2>V</h2> -<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_h.jpg" alt="H" width="41" height="40" /></div> +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_h.jpg" alt="H" style="width: 41px; height: 40px"></div> <p>e should go back, he knew. Without the tracker, he didn't have a chance. The odds were now with the Cytha—if, indeed, they had not been with it from the very start.</p> @@ -1277,8 +1231,8 @@ his hand along the stock as another man might stroke a woman's throat.</p> <p>"Mister," said a voice.</p> -<hr style="width: 45%;" /> -<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_i.jpg" alt="I" width="19" height="40" /></div> +<hr style="width: 45%;" > +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_i.jpg" alt="I" style="width: 19px; height: 40px"></div> <p>t did not startle him, for the word was softly spoken and for a moment he had forgotten that Sipar was dead—dead with a half-smile fixed upon its face and with its throat laid wide open.</p> @@ -1342,8 +1296,8 @@ not fly high, but would cut their swath just above the ground, and he moved the muzzle back and forth a lot so that he covered extra ground to compensate for any miscalculations he might have made.</p> -<hr style="width: 45%;" /> -<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_t.jpg" alt="T" width="36" height="40" /></div> +<hr style="width: 45%;" > +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_t.jpg" alt="T" style="width: 36px; height: 40px"></div> <p>he magazine ran out and the gun clicked empty and the vicious chatter stopped. Powder smoke drifted softly in the campfire light and the smell of it was perfume in the nostrils and in the underbrush many @@ -1393,8 +1347,8 @@ that had happened made any sense. It made no sense that a beast one was pursuing should up and talk to one—although it did fit in with the theory of the crisis-beast he had fashioned in his mind.</p> -<hr style="width: 45%;" /> -<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_p.jpg" alt="P" width="36" height="40" /></div> +<hr style="width: 45%;" > +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_p.jpg" alt="P" style="width: 36px; height: 40px"></div> <p>rogressive adaptation, he told himself. Carry adaptation far enough and you'd reach communication. But might not the Cytha's power of adaptation be running down? Had the Cytha gone about as far as it @@ -1444,8 +1398,8 @@ fire.</p> and walked around the fire, sat down with his back against a tree, cradling the gun across his knees.</p> -<hr style="width: 45%;" /> -<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_t.jpg" alt="T" width="36" height="40" /></div> +<hr style="width: 45%;" > +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_t.jpg" alt="T" style="width: 36px; height: 40px"></div> <p>hose little scurrying feet, he wondered—like the scampering of a thousand busy mice. He had heard them twice, that first night in the thicket by the waterhole and again tonight.</p> @@ -1511,8 +1465,8 @@ following as he had started out.</p> <p>Now there was something else, a strange uneasiness, and he stirred uncomfortably, casting frantically for some clue to what it was.</p> -<hr style="width: 45%;" /> -<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_h.jpg" alt="H" width="41" height="40" /></div> +<hr style="width: 45%;" > +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_h.jpg" alt="H" style="width: 41px; height: 40px"></div> <p>e rose and stepped out from the tree, with the gun at ready. What a perfect place to set a trap, he thought. One would be looking at the pug marks, never at the space between them, for the space between @@ -1575,8 +1529,8 @@ mud and tattered leaves.</p> <p>He tried to crawl and couldn't, for something had grabbed him by the ankle and was hanging on.</p> -<hr style="width: 45%;" /> -<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_w.jpg" alt="W" width="51" height="40" /></div> +<hr style="width: 45%;" > +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_w.jpg" alt="W" style="width: 51px; height: 40px"></div> <p>ith a frantic hand, he clawed the mess out of his eyes, spat it from his mouth.</p> @@ -1637,8 +1591,8 @@ lay just beneath the ground.</p> securely in place by forked branches that had forced their splintering way down along the boulder's sides.</p> -<hr style="width: 45%;" /> -<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_h.jpg" alt="H" width="41" height="40" /></div> +<hr style="width: 45%;" > +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_h.jpg" alt="H" style="width: 41px; height: 40px"></div> <p>e lay back, propped on an elbow. It was evident that he could do nothing about the buried boulder. If he was going to do anything, his problem was the tree.</p> @@ -1692,8 +1646,8 @@ follow. And having done all that, having labored hard and stealthily, the Cytha had settled down to watch, to make sure the following human had fallen in the pit.</p> -<hr style="width: 45%;" /> -<div class="figleft1"><img src="images/image_h1.jpg" alt="H" width="64" height="40" /></div> +<hr style="width: 45%;" > +<div class="figleft1"><img src="images/image_h1.jpg" alt="H" style="width: 64px; height: 40px"></div> <p>i, pal," said Duncan. "How are you making out?"</p> <p>The Cytha did not answer.</p> @@ -1701,7 +1655,7 @@ had fallen in the pit.</p> <p>"Classy pit," said Duncan. "Do you always den up in luxury like this?"</p> <div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> -<img src="images/image_003.jpg" width="450" height="579" alt="" title="" /> +<img src="images/image_003.jpg" alt="" title="" style="width: 450px; height: 579px"> </div> <p>But the Cytha didn't answer.</p> @@ -1750,8 +1704,8 @@ they had spent their childhood?</p> whole, unsuspected answer to the enigma against which men like Shotwell had frustratedly banged their heads for years.</p> -<hr style="width: 45%;" /> -<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_s.jpg" alt="S" width="26" height="40" /></div> +<hr style="width: 45%;" > +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_s.jpg" alt="S" style="width: 26px; height: 40px"></div> <p>trange, he told himself. All right, it might be strange, but if it worked, what difference did it make? So the planet's denizens were @@ -1807,8 +1761,8 @@ me?"</p> <p>"I'll get you out," said Duncan wearily. "I have no quarrel with children."</p> -<hr style="width: 45%;" /> -<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_h.jpg" alt="H" width="41" height="40" /></div> +<hr style="width: 45%;" > +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_h.jpg" alt="H" style="width: 41px; height: 40px"></div> <p>e dragged the rifle toward him and unhooked the sling from the stock. Carefully he lowered the gun by the sling, still attached to the barrel, down into the pit.</p> @@ -1888,8 +1842,8 @@ enough, he might have had an exploding weapon in his hands.</p> <p>He had used the rifle as a crowbar, which was no way to use a gun. That was one way, he told himself, that was guaranteed to ruin it.</p> -<hr style="width: 45%;" /> -<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_d.jpg" alt="D" width="38" height="40" /></div> +<hr style="width: 45%;" > +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_d.jpg" alt="D" style="width: 38px; height: 40px"></div> <p>uncan hunted around and found a twig and dug at the clogged muzzle, but the dirt was jammed too firmly in it and he made little progress.</p> @@ -1962,8 +1916,8 @@ wanted to consider it objectively.</p> <p>But he was in a poor position to be objective about that or anything else.</p> -<hr style="width: 45%;" /> -<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_t.jpg" alt="T" width="36" height="40" /></div> +<hr style="width: 45%;" > +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_t.jpg" alt="T" style="width: 36px; height: 40px"></div> <p>he screamers were inching closer, hitching themselves forward slowly on their bottoms.</p> @@ -2021,8 +1975,8 @@ man would faint before he got the job done.</p> <p>It was useless, he knew. He could do neither one. There was nothing he could do.</p> -<hr style="width: 45%;" /> -<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_f.jpg" alt="F" width="32" height="40" /></div> +<hr style="width: 45%;" > +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_f.jpg" alt="F" style="width: 32px; height: 40px"></div> <p>or the first time, he admitted to himself: He would stay here and die. Shotwell, back at the farm, in a day or two might set out hunting for him. But Shotwell would never find him. And anyhow, by nightfall, @@ -2107,7 +2061,7 @@ you before you got out of the woods."</p> <h2>VI</h2> -<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_t.jpg" alt="T" width="36" height="40" /></div> +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_t.jpg" alt="T" style="width: 36px; height: 40px"></div> <p>hey halted on a knoll. Below them lay the farm, with the <i>vua</i> rows straight and green in the red soil of the fields.</p> @@ -2151,390 +2105,8 @@ thought.</p> <p class="p1"><b>—CLIFFORD D. 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