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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this ebook. - -Title: Sign Of Life - -Author: Dave Dryfoos - -Release Date: December 05, 2020 [EBook #63970] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -Produced by: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SIGN OF LIFE *** - - - - - SIGN of LIFE - - By DAVE DRYFOOS - - _The death-winds of Venus screamed with glee as - George Main lay dying. Then the winds brought - strange shapes to haunt him--and a stranger hope--_ - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Planet Stories July 1951. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -George Main lay dying in the wreckage of the space-ship. Dying--and -cursing the deadly wind of Venus. It had killed his mates. It would -soon have him. - -The wind was trying to finish him off right now. It shrieked, moaned, -whispered and shouted through the smashed hull where he sprawled in his -space-suit. Laughed, too. The wind was a murderer--and was glad. - -All but he were dead. Soon the grit-laden wind would bury them and -their ship. Then all the effort, the skill, the faith--all the -ingenuity and labor expended on the expedition--would be wiped away, as -invisible as the wind that buried them. - -Thinking of that, thinking back over each agonizing hour since his -landing on Venus, George Main wondered what he should have done, what -he could now do, to prevent the utter waste of their efforts and their -lives. - -The wind was his enemy--and the wind couldn't even be seen. Only the -dust it carried was visible. Too visible. Dust was so thick in the -upper atmosphere that the scope-readers had mistaken dust-clouds for -solid ground. - -With ports blinded by dust, the possibility of that error had been -obvious enough. The navigator knew the risk. He chanced it--and lost -the toss. - -George knew he was still alive only because he'd acted like a childish -eager-beaver. And had been tolerated by the others because he was the -crew's youngest member. - -Ever since he could read and dream, he'd wanted to be the first man -ever to touch the soil of Venus. So, having no duties connected -with setting down the ship, he'd gotten into his space-suit and had -waited by a hatch. He was standing there when the ship went into the -twenty-mile free fall that smashed it. - -George didn't know who opened the escape hatch and shoved him out. That -man was dead, along with the rest of the crew. Unlike George's suit, -the space-ship had no parachute. - - * * * * * - -He'd landed blind, in dust so thick he didn't know he was down till he -got there. For forty-eight hours he'd lain where he fell, waiting for a -lull in the storm so he could see the ship. - -When the wind finally quit, the ship was already half buried. Thirsty, -hungry, stinking in the hot suit, George had staggered over windrow -after windrow of dust to reach it. - -He'd broken out an emergency-jug of water, found some uncontaminated -food, erected within the hull a small gas-proof tent, and then passed -out before he could crawl in the tent to eat and drink. - -Later he'd gone out while the lull continued, to search for bodies. -Like the hull itself, they were scattered over a wide area. Some were -already buried in dust. The wind had buried them. - -The wind--the murdering wind. The wind of formaldehyde that poisoned -every drop of water it touched, every bit of food. The wind that -limited George's supplies to unbroken containers--of which there were -tragically few. - -The wind mocked him, then and thereafter. It mocked his efforts to find -the ship's log and continue it. It mocked his efforts to live. - -He tried to fight back. He lay prone and relaxed because that took less -oxygen. He lay in the suit and not in the tent because that took less -oxygen. He ate and drank but once a day because that took less oxygen. - -So he had run out of water while there were still some potassium oxides -left to refresh his thrice-breathed air, some oxygen for the tent. - -George Main wanted to live, knew he would die. And was enraged at the -thought that he would die without having accomplished anything. He and -his friends, and the pioneering scientists back of them, had put too -much effort into trans-System travel to have it all come to nothing -like this. - -Stubbornly he noted in the log that he was now dehydrated to the point -of occasional delirium. And that he hated the wind. - -As if that wind had not already done enough, it now sought to destroy -his last remaining moments of sanity. It brought a horde of odd shapes -to haunt him. - -The shapes literally rolled into the dust-filled metal cavity where he -lay writing. The wind rolled them. But when they got into shelter--had -rolled to one side or the other of the holes through which they'd -come--the shapes began to move, slowly, under their own power. - -They all looked alike. There were a couple of dozen, maybe--George -counted ten and gave up because counting was too much like work. They -were teardrops--eight-inch yellow teardrops with the point down. -And each point rested on an extensible foot that looked like a blue -starfish, about four inches across its seven points. - -They came in, rolling along the ground as the wind took them, and then -extended their stars from some hidden place and moved on them when out -of the wind. - -That is, they seemed to. But whether they were in the hull or in his -mind, George was by no means sure. - -Nothing could live in this wind. Nothing could live on a planet with -no water, where the air was full of formaldehyde ready to react with -proteins, the basis of life. - -He lay motionless, watching idly. There was no sound but the wind. The -yellow teardrops scattered out. They could have been exploring--or -seeking shelter--or nonexistent. - -When he got tired of watching them, George put the log aside and slept. - - * * * * * - -He awoke to find a small congregation of teardrops surrounding the -watch strapped outside the suit on his left wrist. The watch was -going--wound through habit every twenty-four hours, though that was but -a third of a day, here on Venus. The teardrops were curious about it. - -How he got the idea they were curious, George didn't quite know. They -seemed attracted to it, was all. There were no eyes, so far as he -could tell--no ears. If these things had senses, they were not like -terrestrial senses. But the teardrops did have an attitude of attention. - -George removed his watch, laid it before them. Two teardrops detached -themselves from the group to examine his right hand, with which he'd -slipped off the wrist-band. Three others perched on the dust-covered -deck, the watch between them and him. - -George flexed his right hand, twiddled his fingers. The teardrops -seemed unafraid. He chose one and lifted it. It seemed light in weight. -Its star-foot was slightly prehensile, and grasped his glove with tiny -claws arranged in rows on its bottom surface. - -The claws seemed for clinging, not for seizing. George put down the -teardrop, turned it over, and found no opening anywhere on the surface. -If these things lived, he decided, they must be plants, synthesizing -their food--they had no way to eat as animals do. - -Vaguely, George made up his wavering mind that the things existed -outside his imagination. They were alive. They felt curiosity about -him. Leathery, he found them--hard and smooth, except for the foot. - -When he set down the teardrop he'd been examining, the three by his -watch took up a rhythmic motion. The center one stood in place, -swaying slowly above the watch like a bit of seaweed in a quiet lagoon. - -Each of the other two had somehow obtained a pebble. They set their -pebbles down near the watch. Each then tapped with a star-point, first -at the pebble, then at the watch. Back and forth they swayed, their -motions synchronized--perhaps directed by the center one. - -Interesting--but meaningless. It was equally meaningless when the two -teardrops at his right began to dance. They found an empty food-can -lid, pushed it near his hand, and began a concerted swaying and -pointing that took them between hand and can. - -Idly, George led the dance with a waggled forefinger. The teardrops -promptly changed their motion. They stood in place, no longer pointing -alternately at lid and finger, but swaying between them in time with -George. - -[Illustration: _Idly, George led the dance with a waggled -forefinger...._] - -They were slow, though--he could easily have left them behind. But if -he moved his finger slowly enough, they kept perfect time. - -The dance at the watch had stopped. Many teardrops gathered around the -pair that followed the beat of his right index finger. - -It must have amused them. But it soon tired George. He stopped. - -He needed all his remaining energy to think with. He knew these -teardrops were sentient. They were curious, they communicated with each -other, and they danced. They had minds, therefore. - - * * * * * - -George remembered hearing that Man had danced even before he learned -to speak, in a primitive effort to express his feelings. He knew some -birds dance, too--as a courtship procedure. Insects, even. - -But why did the teardrops dance? - -What was the significance of rhythmic motion between a pebble and a -watch? A tin lid and a man's hand? What did the pebbles mean? - -The pebble was a native object, known to be lifeless, inanimate. The -watch was a strange something that moved. The can-lid did not move. -The hand--gloved, though they could not know that--was an object that -moved. - -The dance was a question, therefore. Alive, or dead? The teardrops -wanted to know. Is the watch that moves by itself alive? The strangely -symmetrical lid of a can, is it alive? The oddshaped hand? - -These teardrops had good minds--could grasp abstractions. In a sense, -George felt, the difference between animate and inanimate objects is an -abstraction. In his dying state, the notion amused him. - -Smiling, he placed a pebble on the watch, another on the lid. He sat -up, moved his weakened body so they could perhaps tell it was a unit. -He picked up a teardrop in each hand, held them at his visor, rolled -his eyes, and opened and shut his mouth. He spoke to them. He sang to -them. He swayed with them to show he too could dance. - -They made no sign of reply. None that he could recognize, at any rate. - -Carefully he felt and looked at the entire surface of a teardrop, -putting one down to devote both hands to the other. He thought perhaps -the lack of organs and openings might simply mean they were clothed or -armored in some way. But the thing was apparently naked. The surfaces -he touched were probably skin. He didn't know. - -And they, would they know what a man was? Were they even certain he was -alive? - -One of them was behind him, dancing before the tent. Seeing that, he -was certain the teardrops hadn't yet distinguished the animate from the -inanimate in the objects around them here. - -And George had little time to teach them. Already he was dull and -listless. His vision was playing tricks on him. - -Like as not he'd be dead before they knew for certain he'd been alive. -Dead in the grotesque space-suit. Preserved in an atmosphere of -formaldehyde. His body would seem like a machine that had run down. -There would be no discernable difference between himself and his watch. - -But if they knew he'd been alive? They might remember, then. They were -intelligent, could communicate with one another. By rights they should -have some kind of legends or traditions or history. If they did, if -they knew they'd seen alien life, they'd keep the memory alive. - -They'd recognize the next man to land on Venus, might find means -to tell of this first expedition. Might lead a man to the buried -space-ship, the bodies, the ship's log. - -At least they could defeat the wind. The teardrops could keep his life -and the lives of his mates from going utterly to waste. Whether men -ever found out or not, the teardrops themselves would know that the -expedition had reached Venus. - -But first, George had to prove he was alive, like them--not some -strangely mobile meteorite, nor oddly contrived machine. - -His very lack of strength, his real nearness to death, provided George -with the means he sought. Already he was half anesthetized by weakness -and shock. He didn't have to worry about pain. - -Holding his breath, he took off his helmet. He picked up a teardrop -with each hand, held them to his hot cheeks. Then he let himself -breathe. - -He knew the physical changes to follow would be obvious to the -intelligent little dancers he held in his hands. 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Then the winds brought<br /> -strange shapes to haunt him—and a stranger hope—</i></p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Planet Stories July 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>George Main lay dying in the wreckage of the space-ship. Dying—and -cursing the deadly wind of Venus. It had killed his mates. It would -soon have him.</p> - -<p>The wind was trying to finish him off right now. It shrieked, moaned, -whispered and shouted through the smashed hull where he sprawled in his -space-suit. Laughed, too. The wind was a murderer—and was glad.</p> - -<p>All but he were dead. Soon the grit-laden wind would bury them and -their ship. Then all the effort, the skill, the faith—all the -ingenuity and labor expended on the expedition—would be wiped away, as -invisible as the wind that buried them.</p> - -<p>Thinking of that, thinking back over each agonizing hour since his -landing on Venus, George Main wondered what he should have done, what -he could now do, to prevent the utter waste of their efforts and their -lives.</p> - -<p>The wind was his enemy—and the wind couldn't even be seen. Only the -dust it carried was visible. Too visible. Dust was so thick in the -upper atmosphere that the scope-readers had mistaken dust-clouds for -solid ground.</p> - -<p>With ports blinded by dust, the possibility of that error had been -obvious enough. The navigator knew the risk. He chanced it—and lost -the toss.</p> - -<p>George knew he was still alive only because he'd acted like a childish -eager-beaver. And had been tolerated by the others because he was the -crew's youngest member.</p> - -<p>Ever since he could read and dream, he'd wanted to be the first man -ever to touch the soil of Venus. So, having no duties connected -with setting down the ship, he'd gotten into his space-suit and had -waited by a hatch. He was standing there when the ship went into the -twenty-mile free fall that smashed it.</p> - -<p>George didn't know who opened the escape hatch and shoved him out. That -man was dead, along with the rest of the crew. Unlike George's suit, -the space-ship had no parachute.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>He'd landed blind, in dust so thick he didn't know he was down till he -got there. For forty-eight hours he'd lain where he fell, waiting for a -lull in the storm so he could see the ship.</p> - -<p>When the wind finally quit, the ship was already half buried. Thirsty, -hungry, stinking in the hot suit, George had staggered over windrow -after windrow of dust to reach it.</p> - -<p>He'd broken out an emergency-jug of water, found some uncontaminated -food, erected within the hull a small gas-proof tent, and then passed -out before he could crawl in the tent to eat and drink.</p> - -<p>Later he'd gone out while the lull continued, to search for bodies. -Like the hull itself, they were scattered over a wide area. Some were -already buried in dust. The wind had buried them.</p> - -<p>The wind—the murdering wind. The wind of formaldehyde that poisoned -every drop of water it touched, every bit of food. The wind that -limited George's supplies to unbroken containers—of which there were -tragically few.</p> - -<p>The wind mocked him, then and thereafter. It mocked his efforts to find -the ship's log and continue it. It mocked his efforts to live.</p> - -<p>He tried to fight back. He lay prone and relaxed because that took less -oxygen. He lay in the suit and not in the tent because that took less -oxygen. He ate and drank but once a day because that took less oxygen.</p> - -<p>So he had run out of water while there were still some potassium oxides -left to refresh his thrice-breathed air, some oxygen for the tent.</p> - -<p>George Main wanted to live, knew he would die. And was enraged at the -thought that he would die without having accomplished anything. He and -his friends, and the pioneering scientists back of them, had put too -much effort into trans-System travel to have it all come to nothing -like this.</p> - -<p>Stubbornly he noted in the log that he was now dehydrated to the point -of occasional delirium. And that he hated the wind.</p> - -<p>As if that wind had not already done enough, it now sought to destroy -his last remaining moments of sanity. It brought a horde of odd shapes -to haunt him.</p> - -<p>The shapes literally rolled into the dust-filled metal cavity where he -lay writing. The wind rolled them. But when they got into shelter—had -rolled to one side or the other of the holes through which they'd -come—the shapes began to move, slowly, under their own power.</p> - -<p>They all looked alike. There were a couple of dozen, maybe—George -counted ten and gave up because counting was too much like work. They -were teardrops—eight-inch yellow teardrops with the point down. -And each point rested on an extensible foot that looked like a blue -starfish, about four inches across its seven points.</p> - -<p>They came in, rolling along the ground as the wind took them, and then -extended their stars from some hidden place and moved on them when out -of the wind.</p> - -<p>That is, they seemed to. But whether they were in the hull or in his -mind, George was by no means sure.</p> - -<p>Nothing could live in this wind. Nothing could live on a planet with -no water, where the air was full of formaldehyde ready to react with -proteins, the basis of life.</p> - -<p>He lay motionless, watching idly. There was no sound but the wind. The -yellow teardrops scattered out. They could have been exploring—or -seeking shelter—or nonexistent.</p> - -<p>When he got tired of watching them, George put the log aside and slept.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>He awoke to find a small congregation of teardrops surrounding the -watch strapped outside the suit on his left wrist. The watch was -going—wound through habit every twenty-four hours, though that was but -a third of a day, here on Venus. The teardrops were curious about it.</p> - -<p>How he got the idea they were curious, George didn't quite know. They -seemed attracted to it, was all. There were no eyes, so far as he -could tell—no ears. If these things had senses, they were not like -terrestrial senses. But the teardrops did have an attitude of attention.</p> - -<p>George removed his watch, laid it before them. Two teardrops detached -themselves from the group to examine his right hand, with which he'd -slipped off the wrist-band. Three others perched on the dust-covered -deck, the watch between them and him.</p> - -<p>George flexed his right hand, twiddled his fingers. The teardrops -seemed unafraid. He chose one and lifted it. It seemed light in weight. -Its star-foot was slightly prehensile, and grasped his glove with tiny -claws arranged in rows on its bottom surface.</p> - -<p>The claws seemed for clinging, not for seizing. George put down the -teardrop, turned it over, and found no opening anywhere on the surface. -If these things lived, he decided, they must be plants, synthesizing -their food—they had no way to eat as animals do.</p> - -<p>Vaguely, George made up his wavering mind that the things existed -outside his imagination. They were alive. They felt curiosity about -him. Leathery, he found them—hard and smooth, except for the foot.</p> - -<p>When he set down the teardrop he'd been examining, the three by his -watch took up a rhythmic motion. The center one stood in place, -swaying slowly above the watch like a bit of seaweed in a quiet lagoon.</p> - -<p>Each of the other two had somehow obtained a pebble. They set their -pebbles down near the watch. Each then tapped with a star-point, first -at the pebble, then at the watch. Back and forth they swayed, their -motions synchronized—perhaps directed by the center one.</p> - -<p>Interesting—but meaningless. It was equally meaningless when the two -teardrops at his right began to dance. They found an empty food-can -lid, pushed it near his hand, and began a concerted swaying and -pointing that took them between hand and can.</p> - -<p>Idly, George led the dance with a waggled forefinger. The teardrops -promptly changed their motion. They stood in place, no longer pointing -alternately at lid and finger, but swaying between them in time with -George.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" alt=""/> - <div class="caption"> - <p><i>Idly, George led the dance with a waggled forefinger....</i></p> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>They were slow, though—he could easily have left them behind. But if -he moved his finger slowly enough, they kept perfect time.</p> - -<p>The dance at the watch had stopped. Many teardrops gathered around the -pair that followed the beat of his right index finger.</p> - -<p>It must have amused them. But it soon tired George. He stopped.</p> - -<p>He needed all his remaining energy to think with. He knew these -teardrops were sentient. They were curious, they communicated with each -other, and they danced. They had minds, therefore.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>George remembered hearing that Man had danced even before he learned -to speak, in a primitive effort to express his feelings. He knew some -birds dance, too—as a courtship procedure. Insects, even.</p> - -<p>But why did the teardrops dance?</p> - -<p>What was the significance of rhythmic motion between a pebble and a -watch? A tin lid and a man's hand? What did the pebbles mean?</p> - -<p>The pebble was a native object, known to be lifeless, inanimate. The -watch was a strange something that moved. The can-lid did not move. -The hand—gloved, though they could not know that—was an object that -moved.</p> - -<p>The dance was a question, therefore. Alive, or dead? The teardrops -wanted to know. Is the watch that moves by itself alive? The strangely -symmetrical lid of a can, is it alive? The oddshaped hand?</p> - -<p>These teardrops had good minds—could grasp abstractions. In a sense, -George felt, the difference between animate and inanimate objects is an -abstraction. In his dying state, the notion amused him.</p> - -<p>Smiling, he placed a pebble on the watch, another on the lid. He sat -up, moved his weakened body so they could perhaps tell it was a unit. -He picked up a teardrop in each hand, held them at his visor, rolled -his eyes, and opened and shut his mouth. He spoke to them. He sang to -them. He swayed with them to show he too could dance.</p> - -<p>They made no sign of reply. None that he could recognize, at any rate.</p> - -<p>Carefully he felt and looked at the entire surface of a teardrop, -putting one down to devote both hands to the other. He thought perhaps -the lack of organs and openings might simply mean they were clothed or -armored in some way. But the thing was apparently naked. The surfaces -he touched were probably skin. He didn't know.</p> - -<p>And they, would they know what a man was? Were they even certain he was -alive?</p> - -<p>One of them was behind him, dancing before the tent. Seeing that, he -was certain the teardrops hadn't yet distinguished the animate from the -inanimate in the objects around them here.</p> - -<p>And George had little time to teach them. Already he was dull and -listless. His vision was playing tricks on him.</p> - -<p>Like as not he'd be dead before they knew for certain he'd been alive. -Dead in the grotesque space-suit. Preserved in an atmosphere of -formaldehyde. His body would seem like a machine that had run down. -There would be no discernable difference between himself and his watch.</p> - -<p>But if they knew he'd been alive? They might remember, then. They were -intelligent, could communicate with one another. By rights they should -have some kind of legends or traditions or history. If they did, if -they knew they'd seen alien life, they'd keep the memory alive.</p> - -<p>They'd recognize the next man to land on Venus, might find means -to tell of this first expedition. Might lead a man to the buried -space-ship, the bodies, the ship's log.</p> - -<p>At least they could defeat the wind. The teardrops could keep his life -and the lives of his mates from going utterly to waste. Whether men -ever found out or not, the teardrops themselves would know that the -expedition had reached Venus.</p> - -<p>But first, George had to prove he was alive, like them—not some -strangely mobile meteorite, nor oddly contrived machine.</p> - -<p>His very lack of strength, his real nearness to death, provided George -with the means he sought. Already he was half anesthetized by weakness -and shock. He didn't have to worry about pain.</p> - -<p>Holding his breath, he took off his helmet. He picked up a teardrop -with each hand, held them to his hot cheeks. Then he let himself -breathe.</p> - -<p>He knew the physical changes to follow would be obvious to the -intelligent little dancers he held in his hands. He hoped they wouldn't -get hurt, when they fell.</p> - -<p>Hurt or not, they'd soon figure out he'd been alive—once he was -dead....</p> - -<pre style='margin-top:6em'> -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SIGN OF LIFE *** - -This file should be named 63970-h.htm or 63970-h.zip - -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: -http://www.gutenberg.org/6/3/9/7/63970/ - -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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