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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. 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: Task To Luna - -Author: Alfred Coppel - -Release Date: December 3, 2020 [EBook #63949] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TASK TO LUNA *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class="titlepage"> - -<h1>TASK to LUNA</h1> - -<h2>by ALFRED COPPEL</h2> - -<p>Two rocketships bit into lunar dust. Two men—a<br /> -Yankee, a Russian—dueled in nightmare shadow and<br /> -glare, each eager to destroy the Enemy. What cosmic<br /> -joke made them drop their weapons and die laughing?</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Planet Stories January 1951.<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>The rockets started almost simultaneously. From two widely separated -points on the great curving surface of Earth they reached upward and -outward—toward the Moon.</p> - -<p>It wasn't really so strange a coincidence. Space navigation is governed -by mathematics and logic, not politics. The fact that man-carrying -spaceships happened to be developed concurrently on two sides of an -iron curtain meant little to the Universe. It happened, that's all. And -there is a proper time to launch such missiles. When that time came, -they were launched.</p> - -<p>In a manner of speaking it was a race. A race wherein the prizes -were such things as: "gravity gauge" and "surveillance point" and -"impregnable launching sites." The contestants were earnest, capable -men; each certain that the Moon must not fall into the hands of -the opponent. It made a stirring and patriotic picture, vivid with -nationalistic fervor. It was thrilling with its taste of high adventure -and self-sacrifice. For each rocket pilot it was a personal crusade -against the thing he had been raised to regard as <i>the enemy</i>....</p> - -<p>But somehow under the steady, cold scrutiny of the eternal stars, -they must have looked a little ridiculous ... perhaps just a tiny bit -tragic, too.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Harsh was the moon. There was black and there was white. Great jagged -cliffs and razor-backed mountains slashed the pocked surface of the -crater floor, humping themselves at the huge unwinking stars. The sun -was a stark disc of fire, incredibly white, hung in the black sky. The -shadows were bottomless pools. Within them there was nothing. In the -sunlight, the pumice soil glared white.</p> - -<p>The Russian rocket had crashed on landing. Randick could see the tiny, -buckled shape of it high on the mountain. No doubt the pilot was dead, -but he had to be sure. The risks were too great for any unsupported -assumptions. He had to go up there and see for himself.</p> - -<p>Ponderous in his pressure suit, Randick emerged from the open lock of -the Anglo-American rocket. He slogged across the pumice of the crater -floor toward the spot where the mountain's sheer talus erupted skyward. -If there were no trouble from the Russki, he would return to his own -ship and begin setting up the first cell of what would soon be the -Anglo-American Moon Base. As soon as he signalled a safe landing and -no opposition from the Russian, other rockets would come to add their -cells, and presently there would be an atomic rocket pointed dead at -the heart of every Russian population center. A rocket each for Moscow, -Leningrad, Kiev, Vladivostok....</p> - -<p>Randick frowned. It would be a lot simpler if the crash had finished -the Russian pilot. He knew the Russians had exactly the same plan for -the Moon. Only the rockets would be aimed at Washington, London, Paris, -San Francisco. The slight weight of the one-man bazooka on Randick's -back seemed suddenly very comforting.</p> - -<p>Randick knew himself to be on the very edge of known territory. His map -showed him that he was in the highest part of the Doerfel Mountains. -Behind him lay the two great bowls of Bailly and Schickard, and far to -the north he could see, as he climbed higher, the smooth surface of the -Mare Humorum. He looked up to the spinelike ridge beyond and slightly -above the wreck of the Russian ship. There was a deep pass that slashed -like a wound into the backbone of the range. He felt a slight thrill. -Beyond that cleft lay ... mystery. The other side of the Moon.</p> - -<p>The sun's rays beat down brutally. Even through the heavily insulated -suit Randick could feel their searing touch. All around him stretched -a jumbled nightmare of black and white. He was suddenly very glad -that he could not see the Earth in the sky. The homesickness would be -unbearable.</p> - -<p>Randick found himself frowning. He had no time for such thoughts. -He was a soldier. He reminded himself that up there in the tangled -wreckage of the Russian spaceship there might be another soldier, ready -to kill him. Two human beings on the Moon. Each eager to kill. Randick -shook his head angrily. He had no right to let his mind dwell on such -things....</p> - -<p>He was within a hundred yards of the wreck when a streak of fire and a -soundless blast drove him into the shadows. Pumice showered him from -the starshaped depression where the explosive missile had struck. -Randick cursed heartily. The Russki was very much alive, and there -wasn't a thing wrong with his eyesight. The shot had been uncomfortably -close.</p> - -<p>Unslinging his bazooka, Randick began to work his way around behind the -Russian rocket. A slight movement among the wreckage caught his trained -eye and he launched a projectile at it. It flared wickedly, tearing -fragments of metal loose and flinging them fantastic distances down the -sheer slope of the ridge. There was no return fire.</p> - -<p>Randick broke out of the shadow and ran for the cover of a large -pumicestone boulder farther up the draw. A sun-bright flash of fire -spattered the loose soil a dozen feet from him. He slid for the -darkness on his belly. That one had been a near thing!</p> - -<p>Behind the boulder lay a trench-like depression that sloped away up -the draw toward the pass. Randick dropped into it and began to crawl -laboriously upward. If he could flank the Russki he could finish this -with one good shot. Another explosion rocked the boulder he had just -left. Randick didn't even look back.</p> - -<p>He felt his breath rasping in his throat and his body felt hot and -sticky inside the bulky pressure suit. Glancing down and to his right, -he could see the proudly erect shape of his own rocket far below on the -floor of the crater.</p> - -<p>It took him almost thirty minutes to reach the edge of the shadow that -spilled from the side of the mountain pass. To his left, not ten feet -away, was the sudden white glare of the pumice floor. He was well above -and almost behind the wreck of the Russian's ship. His flanks were -heaving with the exertion of the climb as he searched the buckled mass -of the crash for his opponent.</p> - -<p>There seemed to be a dark shape wedged in between two twisted -bulkheads. It looked like a man. With pounding heart, Randick murmured -a prayer and lifted his bazooka, aimed, and pressed the firing stud. -The shadow vanished in silent white fire.</p> - -<p>The return blast almost knocked him down. For a moment Randick was -stunned, wondering foggily where the shot had come from. Then his brain -cleared and he realized that the Russki too had climbed to the pass, -leaving Randick to fire at shadows.</p> - -<p>Randick cursed himself for his dangerous stupidity. The other must be -among those shadowy rocks directly across the bright floor of the pass. -He raised his bazooka carefully, searching the Stygian blackness for -some sign of movement. His finger curled around the firing stud....</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Out of the corner of his eye he saw the flare. The Russian rocket -erupted in a gout of bluish flame and the whole mountain seemed to -rock. Randick stared stupidly at the glowing crater where the ship -had been. For just an instant he thought that perhaps a meteorite had -struck it, but the explosion had been unquestionably ... atomic.</p> - -<p>The Russian must have been stunned, too. For he moved out into the -light, empty-handed, his helmet turned woodenly toward the rapidly -cooling lake of magma where his space ship had been.</p> - -<p>They both saw the bright arc of fire that raced up from beyond the -ridge and curved down gracefully toward the floor of the crater far -below. Openmouthed, Randick watched his ship vanish into flame and he -felt the vague tremor of the ground under him as the shock rumbled -across the face of the Moon.</p> - -<p>The Russian rocket was gone. The Anglo-American rocket was gone. -Moon Base was gone before it had ever been.</p> - -<p>The weapon fell from Randick's hand, and he stepped unsteadily into the -light toward the Russian. Suddenly human companionship was very, very -important. Panicky terror was plucking at his throat.</p> - -<p>The two men stumbled toward each other across the pass cut deep into -the jagged back of the Doerfel mountains. As one they turned and looked -out across the vast expanse of the Moon's hidden face.</p> - -<p>They were soldiers. They knew an invasion base when they saw one. As -far as the eye could see, lines of sleek mammoth spaceships of unknown -design stretched away into the distance. The face of the vast unnamed -<i>mare</i> was covered with them.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus1.jpg" alt=""/> - <div class="caption"> - <p><i>Their sides hurt with laughter, tears rolled down their faces</i>....</p> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Suddenly Randick felt himself beginning to giggle. He tried to stop, -but the laughter welled up inside of him, echoing wildly within his -confining helmet. He could see that the Russian was laughing too, white -teeth gleaming behind the plexiglass faceplate. They laughed until they -gasped. Their sides hurt with laughter, tears rolled down their faces. -They were arm in arm and still laughing when the third rocket arced -down on them from out of the black and star-flecked sky.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus2.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Task To Luna, by Alfred Coppel - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TASK TO LUNA *** - -***** This file should be named 63949-h.htm or 63949-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/6/3/9/4/63949/ - -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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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. 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: Task To Luna - -Author: Alfred Coppel - -Release Date: December 3, 2020 [EBook #63949] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TASK TO LUNA *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - TASK to LUNA - - by ALFRED COPPEL - - Two rocketships bit into lunar dust. Two men--a - Yankee, a Russian--dueled in nightmare shadow and - glare, each eager to destroy the Enemy. What cosmic - joke made them drop their weapons and die laughing? - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Planet Stories January 1951. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -The rockets started almost simultaneously. From two widely separated -points on the great curving surface of Earth they reached upward and -outward--toward the Moon. - -It wasn't really so strange a coincidence. Space navigation is governed -by mathematics and logic, not politics. The fact that man-carrying -spaceships happened to be developed concurrently on two sides of an -iron curtain meant little to the Universe. It happened, that's all. And -there is a proper time to launch such missiles. When that time came, -they were launched. - -In a manner of speaking it was a race. A race wherein the prizes -were such things as: "gravity gauge" and "surveillance point" and -"impregnable launching sites." The contestants were earnest, capable -men; each certain that the Moon must not fall into the hands of -the opponent. It made a stirring and patriotic picture, vivid with -nationalistic fervor. It was thrilling with its taste of high adventure -and self-sacrifice. For each rocket pilot it was a personal crusade -against the thing he had been raised to regard as _the enemy_.... - -But somehow under the steady, cold scrutiny of the eternal stars, -they must have looked a little ridiculous ... perhaps just a tiny bit -tragic, too. - - * * * * * - -Harsh was the moon. There was black and there was white. Great jagged -cliffs and razor-backed mountains slashed the pocked surface of the -crater floor, humping themselves at the huge unwinking stars. The sun -was a stark disc of fire, incredibly white, hung in the black sky. The -shadows were bottomless pools. Within them there was nothing. In the -sunlight, the pumice soil glared white. - -The Russian rocket had crashed on landing. Randick could see the tiny, -buckled shape of it high on the mountain. No doubt the pilot was dead, -but he had to be sure. The risks were too great for any unsupported -assumptions. He had to go up there and see for himself. - -Ponderous in his pressure suit, Randick emerged from the open lock of -the Anglo-American rocket. He slogged across the pumice of the crater -floor toward the spot where the mountain's sheer talus erupted skyward. -If there were no trouble from the Russki, he would return to his own -ship and begin setting up the first cell of what would soon be the -Anglo-American Moon Base. As soon as he signalled a safe landing and -no opposition from the Russian, other rockets would come to add their -cells, and presently there would be an atomic rocket pointed dead at -the heart of every Russian population center. A rocket each for Moscow, -Leningrad, Kiev, Vladivostok.... - -Randick frowned. It would be a lot simpler if the crash had finished -the Russian pilot. He knew the Russians had exactly the same plan for -the Moon. Only the rockets would be aimed at Washington, London, Paris, -San Francisco. The slight weight of the one-man bazooka on Randick's -back seemed suddenly very comforting. - -Randick knew himself to be on the very edge of known territory. His map -showed him that he was in the highest part of the Doerfel Mountains. -Behind him lay the two great bowls of Bailly and Schickard, and far to -the north he could see, as he climbed higher, the smooth surface of the -Mare Humorum. He looked up to the spinelike ridge beyond and slightly -above the wreck of the Russian ship. There was a deep pass that slashed -like a wound into the backbone of the range. He felt a slight thrill. -Beyond that cleft lay ... mystery. The other side of the Moon. - -The sun's rays beat down brutally. Even through the heavily insulated -suit Randick could feel their searing touch. All around him stretched -a jumbled nightmare of black and white. He was suddenly very glad -that he could not see the Earth in the sky. The homesickness would be -unbearable. - -Randick found himself frowning. He had no time for such thoughts. -He was a soldier. He reminded himself that up there in the tangled -wreckage of the Russian spaceship there might be another soldier, ready -to kill him. Two human beings on the Moon. Each eager to kill. Randick -shook his head angrily. He had no right to let his mind dwell on such -things.... - -He was within a hundred yards of the wreck when a streak of fire and a -soundless blast drove him into the shadows. Pumice showered him from -the starshaped depression where the explosive missile had struck. -Randick cursed heartily. The Russki was very much alive, and there -wasn't a thing wrong with his eyesight. The shot had been uncomfortably -close. - -Unslinging his bazooka, Randick began to work his way around behind the -Russian rocket. A slight movement among the wreckage caught his trained -eye and he launched a projectile at it. It flared wickedly, tearing -fragments of metal loose and flinging them fantastic distances down the -sheer slope of the ridge. There was no return fire. - -Randick broke out of the shadow and ran for the cover of a large -pumicestone boulder farther up the draw. A sun-bright flash of fire -spattered the loose soil a dozen feet from him. He slid for the -darkness on his belly. That one had been a near thing! - -Behind the boulder lay a trench-like depression that sloped away up -the draw toward the pass. Randick dropped into it and began to crawl -laboriously upward. If he could flank the Russki he could finish this -with one good shot. Another explosion rocked the boulder he had just -left. Randick didn't even look back. - -He felt his breath rasping in his throat and his body felt hot and -sticky inside the bulky pressure suit. Glancing down and to his right, -he could see the proudly erect shape of his own rocket far below on the -floor of the crater. - -It took him almost thirty minutes to reach the edge of the shadow that -spilled from the side of the mountain pass. To his left, not ten feet -away, was the sudden white glare of the pumice floor. He was well above -and almost behind the wreck of the Russian's ship. His flanks were -heaving with the exertion of the climb as he searched the buckled mass -of the crash for his opponent. - -There seemed to be a dark shape wedged in between two twisted -bulkheads. It looked like a man. With pounding heart, Randick murmured -a prayer and lifted his bazooka, aimed, and pressed the firing stud. -The shadow vanished in silent white fire. - -The return blast almost knocked him down. For a moment Randick was -stunned, wondering foggily where the shot had come from. Then his brain -cleared and he realized that the Russki too had climbed to the pass, -leaving Randick to fire at shadows. - -Randick cursed himself for his dangerous stupidity. The other must be -among those shadowy rocks directly across the bright floor of the pass. -He raised his bazooka carefully, searching the Stygian blackness for -some sign of movement. His finger curled around the firing stud.... - - * * * * * - -Out of the corner of his eye he saw the flare. The Russian rocket -erupted in a gout of bluish flame and the whole mountain seemed to -rock. Randick stared stupidly at the glowing crater where the ship -had been. For just an instant he thought that perhaps a meteorite had -struck it, but the explosion had been unquestionably ... atomic. - -The Russian must have been stunned, too. For he moved out into the -light, empty-handed, his helmet turned woodenly toward the rapidly -cooling lake of magma where his space ship had been. - -They both saw the bright arc of fire that raced up from beyond the -ridge and curved down gracefully toward the floor of the crater far -below. Openmouthed, Randick watched his ship vanish into flame and he -felt the vague tremor of the ground under him as the shock rumbled -across the face of the Moon. - -The Russian rocket was gone. The Anglo-American rocket was gone. -Moon Base was gone before it had ever been. - -The weapon fell from Randick's hand, and he stepped unsteadily into the -light toward the Russian. Suddenly human companionship was very, very -important. Panicky terror was plucking at his throat. - -The two men stumbled toward each other across the pass cut deep into -the jagged back of the Doerfel mountains. As one they turned and looked -out across the vast expanse of the Moon's hidden face. - -They were soldiers. They knew an invasion base when they saw one. As -far as the eye could see, lines of sleek mammoth spaceships of unknown -design stretched away into the distance. The face of the vast unnamed -_mare_ was covered with them. - -[Illustration: Their sides hurt with laughter, tears rolled down their -faces....] - -Suddenly Randick felt himself beginning to giggle. He tried to stop, -but the laughter welled up inside of him, echoing wildly within his -confining helmet. He could see that the Russian was laughing too, white -teeth gleaming behind the plexiglass faceplate. They laughed until they -gasped. Their sides hurt with laughter, tears rolled down their faces. -They were arm in arm and still laughing when the third rocket arced -down on them from out of the black and star-flecked sky. - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Task To Luna, by Alfred Coppel - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TASK TO LUNA *** - -***** This file should be named 63949.txt or 63949.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/6/3/9/4/63949/ - -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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