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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: The Masked World - -Author: Jack Williamson - -Illustrator: Virgil Finlay - -Release Date: September 13, 2016 [EBook #53045] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MASKED WORLD *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/cover.jpg" width="379" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="titlepage"> -<h1>THE MASKED WORLD</h1> - -<p>BY JACK WILLIAMSON</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Worlds of Tomorrow October 1963<br /> -Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that<br /> -the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p class="ph3">The planet hid itself from the Earthmen—and<br /> -what lay behind the mask was fierce and deadly!</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>The planet wore a mask.</p> - -<p>At ten million miles, it was a sullen yellow eye. At one million, a -scarred and evil leer. Outside the smoking circle our landing-jets had -sterilized, it was a hideous veil of hairy black tentacles and huge -sallow blooms, hiding the riddle of its sinister genes.</p> - -<p>On most worlds that we astronauts have found, the life is vaguely like -our own. Similar nucleotides are linked along similar helical chains of -DNA, carrying similar genetic messages. A similar process replicates -the chains when the cells divide, to carry the complex blue-prints for -a particular root or eye or wing accurately down across ten thousand -generations.</p> - -<p>But even the genes were different here—enormously complicated. Here -the simplest-seeming weed had more and longer chains of DNA than -anything we had seen before. What was their message?</p> - -<p>We had come to read it, with our new genetic micro-probe. A hundred -precious tons of microscopic electronic gear, it was designed to -observe and manipulate the smallest units of life. It could reach even -those strange genes.</p> - -<p>That was our mission.</p> - -<p>Ours was the seventh survey ship to approach the planet. Six before us -had been lost without trace. We were to find out why.</p> - -<p>Our pilot was Lance Llandark. A lean hard man, silent and cold as the -gray-cased micro-probe. We hated him—until someone learned why he had -volunteered to come.</p> - -<p>His wife had been pilot of the ship before us. When we knew that, we -began to hear the hidden tension in his tired voice, monotonously -calling on every band: "Come in, Six.... Come in Six...."</p> - -<p>Six never came in.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>For two days, we watched the planet. The shallow ditch our jets had -dug. The charred stumps. The jungle beyond—the visible mask of those -monstrous genes—rank, dark, utterly alien.</p> - -<p>At the third dawn, Lance Llandark took two of us out in a 'copter. -Flying a grid over the landing area, we mapped six shallow pock-marks -on that scowling wilderness, where our ships must have landed.</p> - -<p>We dropped into the newest crater, where black stumps jutted like -broken teeth out of queerly bare red muck. A yellow-scummed stream -oozed across it. By the stream we found a fine-boned human skeleton.</p> - -<p>A nightmare plant stood guard beside the bones. Its thick leaves were -strangely streaked, twisted with vegetable agony, half poison spine and -half blighted bloom. Shapeless blobs of rotting fruit were falling from -it over those slender bones.</p> - -<p>Lance Llandark stood up.</p> - -<p>"Her turquoise thunderbird." He showed us the bit of blackened silver -and blue-veined stone. "Back on Terra.... Back when we were student -pilots.... We bought it from an Indian in an old, old town called Sante -Fe."</p> - -<p>He bent again.</p> - -<p>"Lilith?" he whispered. "Lilith, what killed you?"</p> - -<p>We found no other bones, nothing even to tell us what force or poison -kept the creeping jungle back from that solitary plant. We left at -dusk. Tenderly, Lance Llandark brought the gathered bones. Carefully we -carried a few leaves and dried pods from that crazy sentinel plant. We -found no other clue.</p> - -<p>Patiently, day by forty-hour day, we searched the other sites. We found -jet marks and stumps and teeming weeds, but nothing like that tormented -nightmare over Lilith Llandark's skeleton. We found no wreckage. -Nothing to show how the planet had murdered the lost expeditions.</p> - -<p>Day by eternal day, the unknown leered from the secret places of its -genes. It was all vegetable. We saw no animal movement, heard no cry or -insect hum. The silence became suffocating.</p> - -<p>Day after desperate day, we returned to the micro-probe.</p> - -<p>"The answer's in the genes," Lance Llandark whispered grimly. "We've no -other chance."</p> - -<p>He kept the probe running on the strangest genes of all; those from the -plant nightmare that had grown beside his wife. They were like nothing -else on the planet. The double-stranded chains of DNA were monstrously -long; many of the nucleotide links held copper or arsenic atoms.</p> - -<p>"Queer!" Lance kept muttering. "No copper or arsenic in other plants -here. I'd like to know why."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>He was running when we heard the woman scream. In that stifling quiet, -her cry unnerved us all. We crowded down to the lock.</p> - -<p>Tattered, stained with blood-colored juices, she slipped through those -coiled, constricting creepers. She splashed out into the open ditch, -waving a filthy rag. Halfway to the ship, she fell into the mud.</p> - -<p>Lance Llandark led three of us to bring her in. She whimpered and -looked up. Tears streaked the grime on her wasted face.</p> - -<p>"Lance!" she gasped. "My dear."</p> - -<p>"Lilith—" But he shrank back suddenly. "I found Lilith dead!"</p> - -<p>"I am nearly dead." She tried weakly to get up. "You see, we're all -marooned out there in the bush. Emergency landing, when we tried to get -off. Wrecked our astrogation gear. Need your spare astro-pilot—"</p> - -<p>"Back." He swung on us. "Back aboard!"</p> - -<p>"What's wrong?" We were stunned, "She's your wife—"</p> - -<p>"Aboard! Instanter!"</p> - -<p>We obeyed his deadly voice.</p> - -<p>"Help—" she whispered faintly behind us in the mud. "Survivors—need -astro-pilot-to plot our way home—"</p> - -<p>The clanging lock cut off her voice.</p> - -<p>Angrily we turned on Lance Llandark.</p> - -<p>"Hold it!" he snapped. "I'm not crazy—the planet is. Come along to the -micro-probe. I'm probing a seed from the plant we found by Lilith's -bones. It puzzled me. So much of it was—"</p> - -<p>In spite of the tension, he had to grope for a word to express meaning.</p> - -<p>"Arbitrary! Those shapeless leaves, twisted stalk, that sterile seed. -The copper and arsenic in those needless links. Too many genes had no -function. No use at all!</p> - -<p>"I'd just got the key, when that thing screamed. The copper and arsenic -atoms are not genetic instructions to the plant. They're a message to -us—words replicated a trillion times, and concealed in every cell of -the plant!"</p> - -<p>"Words?" someone whispered blankly. "Words in the atoms?"</p> - -<p>"Written in binary code." His scowl was bleakly triumphant. "That -weed's a mutant, you see. The real Lilith formed the first cell with -her micro-probe. She left it—I suppose in her own body—as a message -that no pseudo-Lilith could intercept."</p> - -<p>Outside that something screamed again.</p> - -<p>"Call each copper atom a dot," he whispered. "Call each arsenic a dash. -Taken in order along the chains of DNA, they do encode a message. The -computer's decoding it now."</p> - -<p>He punched a button, and the printer whirred.</p> - -<p>TO WHOEVER COMES.... GIVE NO AID TO ANYONE.... GET OFF THIS PLANET.... -ITS LIFE IS PSEUDOMORPHIC.... DON'T LET IT LEAVE.... JUST TAKE MY -LOVE TO LANCE LLANDARK.... FROM LILITH, HIS WIFE.... AND GET OFF THIS -PLANET, FAST....</p> - -<p>Outside, it uttered a frantic, bubbling screech.</p> - -<p>We did get off the planet, and we expect to stay away.</p> - -<p class="ph4">END</p> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Masked World, by Jack Williamson - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MASKED WORLD *** - -***** This file should be named 53045-h.htm or 53045-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/3/0/4/53045/ - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law 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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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: The Masked World - -Author: Jack Williamson - -Illustrator: Virgil Finlay - -Release Date: September 13, 2016 [EBook #53045] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MASKED WORLD *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - THE MASKED WORLD - - BY JACK WILLIAMSON - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Worlds of Tomorrow October 1963 - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - - - - The planet hid itself from the Earthmen--and - what lay behind the mask was fierce and deadly! - - -The planet wore a mask. - -At ten million miles, it was a sullen yellow eye. At one million, a -scarred and evil leer. Outside the smoking circle our landing-jets had -sterilized, it was a hideous veil of hairy black tentacles and huge -sallow blooms, hiding the riddle of its sinister genes. - -On most worlds that we astronauts have found, the life is vaguely like -our own. Similar nucleotides are linked along similar helical chains of -DNA, carrying similar genetic messages. A similar process replicates -the chains when the cells divide, to carry the complex blue-prints for -a particular root or eye or wing accurately down across ten thousand -generations. - -But even the genes were different here--enormously complicated. Here -the simplest-seeming weed had more and longer chains of DNA than -anything we had seen before. What was their message? - -We had come to read it, with our new genetic micro-probe. A hundred -precious tons of microscopic electronic gear, it was designed to -observe and manipulate the smallest units of life. It could reach even -those strange genes. - -That was our mission. - -Ours was the seventh survey ship to approach the planet. Six before us -had been lost without trace. We were to find out why. - -Our pilot was Lance Llandark. A lean hard man, silent and cold as the -gray-cased micro-probe. We hated him--until someone learned why he had -volunteered to come. - -His wife had been pilot of the ship before us. When we knew that, we -began to hear the hidden tension in his tired voice, monotonously -calling on every band: "Come in, Six.... Come in Six...." - -Six never came in. - - * * * * * - -For two days, we watched the planet. The shallow ditch our jets had -dug. The charred stumps. The jungle beyond--the visible mask of those -monstrous genes--rank, dark, utterly alien. - -At the third dawn, Lance Llandark took two of us out in a 'copter. -Flying a grid over the landing area, we mapped six shallow pock-marks -on that scowling wilderness, where our ships must have landed. - -We dropped into the newest crater, where black stumps jutted like -broken teeth out of queerly bare red muck. A yellow-scummed stream -oozed across it. By the stream we found a fine-boned human skeleton. - -A nightmare plant stood guard beside the bones. Its thick leaves were -strangely streaked, twisted with vegetable agony, half poison spine and -half blighted bloom. Shapeless blobs of rotting fruit were falling from -it over those slender bones. - -Lance Llandark stood up. - -"Her turquoise thunderbird." He showed us the bit of blackened silver -and blue-veined stone. "Back on Terra.... Back when we were student -pilots.... We bought it from an Indian in an old, old town called Sante -Fe." - -He bent again. - -"Lilith?" he whispered. "Lilith, what killed you?" - -We found no other bones, nothing even to tell us what force or poison -kept the creeping jungle back from that solitary plant. We left at -dusk. Tenderly, Lance Llandark brought the gathered bones. Carefully we -carried a few leaves and dried pods from that crazy sentinel plant. We -found no other clue. - -Patiently, day by forty-hour day, we searched the other sites. We found -jet marks and stumps and teeming weeds, but nothing like that tormented -nightmare over Lilith Llandark's skeleton. We found no wreckage. -Nothing to show how the planet had murdered the lost expeditions. - -Day by eternal day, the unknown leered from the secret places of its -genes. It was all vegetable. We saw no animal movement, heard no cry or -insect hum. The silence became suffocating. - -Day after desperate day, we returned to the micro-probe. - -"The answer's in the genes," Lance Llandark whispered grimly. "We've no -other chance." - -He kept the probe running on the strangest genes of all; those from the -plant nightmare that had grown beside his wife. They were like nothing -else on the planet. The double-stranded chains of DNA were monstrously -long; many of the nucleotide links held copper or arsenic atoms. - -"Queer!" Lance kept muttering. "No copper or arsenic in other plants -here. I'd like to know why." - - * * * * * - -He was running when we heard the woman scream. In that stifling quiet, -her cry unnerved us all. We crowded down to the lock. - -Tattered, stained with blood-colored juices, she slipped through those -coiled, constricting creepers. She splashed out into the open ditch, -waving a filthy rag. Halfway to the ship, she fell into the mud. - -Lance Llandark led three of us to bring her in. She whimpered and -looked up. Tears streaked the grime on her wasted face. - -"Lance!" she gasped. "My dear." - -"Lilith--" But he shrank back suddenly. "I found Lilith dead!" - -"I am nearly dead." She tried weakly to get up. "You see, we're all -marooned out there in the bush. Emergency landing, when we tried to get -off. Wrecked our astrogation gear. Need your spare astro-pilot--" - -"Back." He swung on us. "Back aboard!" - -"What's wrong?" We were stunned, "She's your wife--" - -"Aboard! Instanter!" - -We obeyed his deadly voice. - -"Help--" she whispered faintly behind us in the mud. "Survivors--need -astro-pilot-to plot our way home--" - -The clanging lock cut off her voice. - -Angrily we turned on Lance Llandark. - -"Hold it!" he snapped. "I'm not crazy--the planet is. Come along to the -micro-probe. I'm probing a seed from the plant we found by Lilith's -bones. It puzzled me. So much of it was--" - -In spite of the tension, he had to grope for a word to express meaning. - -"Arbitrary! Those shapeless leaves, twisted stalk, that sterile seed. -The copper and arsenic in those needless links. Too many genes had no -function. No use at all! - -"I'd just got the key, when that thing screamed. The copper and arsenic -atoms are not genetic instructions to the plant. They're a message to -us--words replicated a trillion times, and concealed in every cell of -the plant!" - -"Words?" someone whispered blankly. "Words in the atoms?" - -"Written in binary code." His scowl was bleakly triumphant. "That -weed's a mutant, you see. The real Lilith formed the first cell with -her micro-probe. She left it--I suppose in her own body--as a message -that no pseudo-Lilith could intercept." - -Outside that something screamed again. - -"Call each copper atom a dot," he whispered. "Call each arsenic a dash. -Taken in order along the chains of DNA, they do encode a message. The -computer's decoding it now." - -He punched a button, and the printer whirred. - -TO WHOEVER COMES.... GIVE NO AID TO ANYONE.... GET OFF THIS PLANET.... -ITS LIFE IS PSEUDOMORPHIC.... DON'T LET IT LEAVE.... JUST TAKE MY -LOVE TO LANCE LLANDARK.... FROM LILITH, HIS WIFE.... 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