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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: Touch the sky - -Author: Alfred Coppel - -Release Date: October 23, 2022 [eBook #69215] - -Language: English - -Produced by: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TOUCH THE SKY *** - - - - - - Touch the SKY - - By ALFRED COPPEL - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Startling Stories Summer 1955. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -The sign said: RIDE THE ROCKET! TWICE AROUND THE UNIVERSE FOR 25¢! -Which was cheap enough, Pete Moore thought. Cheap enough at twice the -fare. - -Glory giggled and pulled at his arm. "Let's ride, Pete. Let's see what -you're in for." - -He smiled down at her thinly, because it wasn't really anything for -her to giggle about, but that was Glory for you. She was young enough, -gay enough, to be able to make a joke of it, and that was good and he -shouldn't spoil it. Not many other wives would feel like that. Not many -other wives would want to spend his last night home on the midway, for -that matter. But then again, that was Glory. - -He listened to the tinny carousel music and the babble of the crowd, -the laughter and the mingled drone of barkers. He smelled the tang -of roasting popcorn and the hot-doggy stink of the lunchcounters. He -looked at the ferris wheel and the crazy swoop of lights that was the -scenic railway and the people crowding along the boardwalk with kewpie -dolls and spun-sugar candy cones in their hands. - -Question! his mind demanded: Is this reality? - -Answer: Of course. What else? - -I've been too long away from cities, he thought. Too many silent nights -in the desert, too many high flights in cold blue air. Too long away -from Glory? - -He felt guilty and depressed at the thought. It wasn't the way for a -man to feel. Not before the great adventure. Still, he couldn't avoid -an almost homesick longing for the deep darkness of the desert and the -silver ship waiting there. - -Soon, he thought. Three days; three days and a few hours. - -He felt a tug at his arm. - -"Pete!" Glory was smiling up at him, half-aggrieved, half-loving. He -looked again at the garishly painted sign. - -RIDE THE ROCKET! - -"Let's ride it, Pete," Glory said. "Let's!" - -There was something in her smile that touched him. Pride? That, and -love and youth. To her, he was _the_ man. For her, and for all the -world. The one who was going to reach out beyond the far horizon and -touch the sky and bring back a pot of gold for everyone. - -She thinks no one else could do it, he told himself. That's love. There -were a dozen qualified men, and yet-- - -The moonshot was his. - -RIDE THE ROCKET! - -"All right, baby," he said. - -As he paid their fare for the rocket-ride, Pete found himself looking -at the girl in the booth. Tired eyes and stringy hennaed hair. No -dreams there. He had an impulse to tell her that soon he'd really be -riding the rocket and that from then on things would be different. - -New frontiers and new dreams for everybody. Up and up. - - * * * * * - -The girl's eyes met his, and it was Pete who looked away. You don't -talk frontiers to pale, worn faces and eyes bleached of color by tinny -music and stinks and men. - -They walked up a wooden ramp to where a little metal bullet on rails -waited. The paint, once bright, was all scuffy. A sour-faced attendant -in grayish coveralls stood by a large lever. - -"Fasten ya seat belts, Mac." - -"We're off to the sky," Glory said. - -Somewhere old machinery wheezed. - -The little bullet began to move along the rails toward a hinged -trap-door in a wall painted to look like clouds. - -"Hold my hand, Pete," Glory said breathlessly. - -Glory, Glory, he thought. Young and simple and in love with life. Any -kind of life. Real or unreal. Glory with a bubbling laughter, a zest, a -faith. Maybe it was really for her that he was taking the big flight. -If only he could bring back the pot of gold. If only he could tell -weary Man that the sky was all his. He thought of the strained, unhappy -faces in the streets, the fear-filled eyes. If he could return and say -to them: "Here's your new frontier!" Yes, by God, it was worth the -work, and the risk. Glory was right. It was something to be proud of. - -I'm going to the moon! - -Me, Pete Moore, to the _moon_! - -"There it is, Pete!" - -They had bumped through the painted door into a musty semi-darkness. -The walls were perforated with holes for stars, and from somewhere -below a huge yellowish moon was rising. - -Off a short way to the right was a glowing papier-mâché globe painted -with broad bands slightly askew, and behind that was another with rings. - -A loudspeaker whistled tinnily and overhead, on wire runners, an -electric globe crossed the dim chamber, pieces of yellow and white -crepe paper fluttering feebly behind. - -"Oh, Pete! A comet?" - -"Sure enough, Glory," he said. - -The rumbling little bullet skirted the walls and Pete could see the -electric lights behind the holes. Stars, he thought sardonically. Close -enough to touch. Lucky us. - -"There's Mars, Pete," Glory said, squeezing his hand. - -I'm getting disenchanted, he thought. - -A red ball, all painted with canals and white polar caps far too big. - -They should have had a technical advisor on this project, he thought. -Paging Palomar. - -The bullet began its second circuit of the papier-mâché universe, -and the moon was high now, projected on the wall by some kind of -lantern-slide lamp. There was a face on the moon. - -It began then--just a tiny bead of fear way down inside his belly. But -it grew. He felt suffocated, claustrophobic, oppressed by fakery and -cheapness. - -Glory was laughing with delight. "Oh, it's wonderful!" - -Shut up! Pete thought savagely. Shut up, _shut up_! - -With an effort, he got hold of himself. - -I've been working too hard. I'm jittery thinking about the moonshot, -and all this seedy burlesque just irritates me. There's nothing to get -heated up about. Calm down. - -But why am I suddenly afraid? - -He looked again at the ridiculous moon with its smirking face. He saw -that plaster had fallen from the wall in places, peeling away, leaving -the bare hexagons of wire and laths. - -My God, he thought. A chickenwire sky. - -He thought again of the girl in the ticket booth, and of the tired, -frightened people all laughing too much and shoving and running outside. - -The bullet started down at last, toward the hinged door. On this side -it was painted to look like Earth, with a distorted map of North -America. All wrong, somehow. - -Pete felt ill. It was as though someone were making ill-tempered fun -of the dreams and the tall silver ship waiting out on the desert. -Cheapening it. Laughing nastily. - -The little bullet bumped through the seedy, scruffy Earth and out -into the night of the midway, out into the crowd-sounds and music and -hot-doggy smells. - -"It was fun, Pete," Glory said. - -He helped her out onto the rickety platform. He had the insane notion -that the girl in the ticket booth and the lounging attendant were -laughing at him. - -"It sure was, honey," he said wearily, still feeling the illogical fear -of he-knew-not-what inside himself. "Real fun." - -Glory looked up at him, eyes alight and almost feverishly gay. "I did -what you are going to do. I touched the sky!" - - * * * * * - -New frontiers. New lands in the sky. New hope. - -It was quiet. The jet was still and no sound was anywhere in the ship. -Now a soft tick from the timer. A whisper from the questing radarscope. -And again, the stillness. - -We've done it, Pete thought. We've really done it. The hard part is -over. - -Ride the rocket! - -He remembered the pain of the takeoff and the absolute panic that had -welled up in him when the irrevocability of his action came home. He -remembered riding a tail of red fire up out of the hot desert air of -New Mexico into the still blue, and then the silence and the almost -unnerving thrill of the realization that the moonshot was going to -succeed. - -The radio hissed at him with the voice of the desert base half around -the world. - -"Hello moonshot. This is Base. All's okay. Stage one landed in the -Gulf. Stage two just reported floating off the Azores. Good show." - -Pete lifted himself from the acceleration couch and felt a moment of -nausea and panic as he floated toward the ceiling of the tiny cell. -Free flight. He steadied himself and checked the flow of telemetered -information binding the ship to the glowing curve far below. All okay. -Except that-- - -Except that you're still afraid, he told himself. Not just the normal -fear-of-falling-afraid that the psychs told you about. Afraid like -before--in that silly damn carnival ride thing. - -Afraid of the dark? - -No, not quite that. More a closed in, cheated feeling. - -Premonition? Nonsense. - -He clung to the radarscope, trembling. With every rushing mile upward, -outward, his fear was growing. It wasn't right, it didn't make sense. -But he felt as though he were rushing straight at a brick wall, head -down, eyes closed. - -He lit the telescreens. - -The stars look funny, he thought uneasily. - -The timer ticked. The radar whispered, searching. Time passed and his -fear grew thicker, less reasonable. - -His fingers dug hard at the metal of the instrument panel as the night -slipped by outside the hull. The ship's orbital ellipse, Kepler's -contribution to the new frontier, was established. - -Pete thought, something's wrong. Very wrong. The stars look queer. - -The constellations in the telescreens were distorting, and there -was something ahead of the ship where there should be nothing but -emptiness. It showed in the screen for just an instant and was lost. A -ringed sphere. - -I must be dreaming, Pete thought. But then, what is reality? That -sphere was Saturn. And it was a hundred yards across. - -Reality? _Insanity!_ - -I'd better check with Base, Pete thought, and tell them I've gone off -my rocker, that I'm suffering hallucinations. - -But he did nothing except cling shaking to the panel, watching the -distorted stars in the screen. They were blurring now, streaks of light -that seemed to be very close to the ship. - - * * * * * - -And then came the moon. It came and went very quickly, pocked and -scarred and with only one face. And _small_. Very small and very close. - -Pete felt closed in, suffocated. The radar alarm was screaming at him -that something was near, too near. - -He clamped down savagely on himself. There was an explanation -somewhere. He had to find it! He had to think! - -Item. The stars. Distorted. Blurred. - -Item. Saturn. A hundred yards across. - -Item. A tiny replica of the moon, like a pimple on the inside of an egg. - -Replica? No. _The_ moon. The only moon. Reality. - -Hypothesis. Say that space is not as men imagined it. Say that it is an -illusion, without lightyears, without great suns, without huge planets. -Say for the sake of argument that it is a shell with holes in it, and -light outside, and the Sun itself an illusion of heat and power, and-- - -Say that this hollow shell is man's new frontier; a fraud, a toy for -things outside-- - -The alarm screamed at him. The ship was plunging toward the blurry -light of the stars. - -With an icy hand on his heart, Pete Moore turned to look at the -telescreen behind him. A misty blue ball swam in musty darkness. The -oceans gleamed in the light of the sun, cloud masses whitened it, the -wrinkled face of the land looked unreal-- - -He began to laugh. 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TWICE AROUND THE UNIVERSE FOR 25¢! -Which was cheap enough, Pete Moore thought. Cheap enough at twice the -fare.</p> - -<p>Glory giggled and pulled at his arm. "Let's ride, Pete. Let's see what -you're in for."</p> - -<p>He smiled down at her thinly, because it wasn't really anything for -her to giggle about, but that was Glory for you. She was young enough, -gay enough, to be able to make a joke of it, and that was good and he -shouldn't spoil it. Not many other wives would feel like that. Not many -other wives would want to spend his last night home on the midway, for -that matter. But then again, that was Glory.</p> - -<p>He listened to the tinny carousel music and the babble of the crowd, -the laughter and the mingled drone of barkers. He smelled the tang -of roasting popcorn and the hot-doggy stink of the lunchcounters. He -looked at the ferris wheel and the crazy swoop of lights that was the -scenic railway and the people crowding along the boardwalk with kewpie -dolls and spun-sugar candy cones in their hands.</p> - -<p>Question! his mind demanded: Is this reality?</p> - -<p>Answer: Of course. What else?</p> - -<p>I've been too long away from cities, he thought. Too many silent nights -in the desert, too many high flights in cold blue air. Too long away -from Glory?</p> - -<p>He felt guilty and depressed at the thought. It wasn't the way for a -man to feel. Not before the great adventure. Still, he couldn't avoid -an almost homesick longing for the deep darkness of the desert and the -silver ship waiting there.</p> - -<p>Soon, he thought. Three days; three days and a few hours.</p> - -<p>He felt a tug at his arm.</p> - -<p>"Pete!" Glory was smiling up at him, half-aggrieved, half-loving. He -looked again at the garishly painted sign.</p> - -<p>RIDE THE ROCKET!</p> - -<p>"Let's ride it, Pete," Glory said. "Let's!"</p> - -<p>There was something in her smile that touched him. Pride? That, and -love and youth. To her, he was <i>the</i> man. For her, and for all the -world. The one who was going to reach out beyond the far horizon and -touch the sky and bring back a pot of gold for everyone.</p> - -<p>She thinks no one else could do it, he told himself. That's love. There -were a dozen qualified men, and yet—</p> - -<p>The moonshot was his.</p> - -<p>RIDE THE ROCKET!</p> - -<p>"All right, baby," he said.</p> - -<p>As he paid their fare for the rocket-ride, Pete found himself looking -at the girl in the booth. Tired eyes and stringy hennaed hair. No -dreams there. He had an impulse to tell her that soon he'd really be -riding the rocket and that from then on things would be different.</p> - -<p>New frontiers and new dreams for everybody. Up and up.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The girl's eyes met his, and it was Pete who looked away. You don't -talk frontiers to pale, worn faces and eyes bleached of color by tinny -music and stinks and men.</p> - -<p>They walked up a wooden ramp to where a little metal bullet on rails -waited. The paint, once bright, was all scuffy. A sour-faced attendant -in grayish coveralls stood by a large lever.</p> - -<p>"Fasten ya seat belts, Mac."</p> - -<p>"We're off to the sky," Glory said.</p> - -<p>Somewhere old machinery wheezed.</p> - -<p>The little bullet began to move along the rails toward a hinged -trap-door in a wall painted to look like clouds.</p> - -<p>"Hold my hand, Pete," Glory said breathlessly.</p> - -<p>Glory, Glory, he thought. Young and simple and in love with life. Any -kind of life. Real or unreal. Glory with a bubbling laughter, a zest, a -faith. Maybe it was really for her that he was taking the big flight. -If only he could bring back the pot of gold. If only he could tell -weary Man that the sky was all his. He thought of the strained, unhappy -faces in the streets, the fear-filled eyes. If he could return and say -to them: "Here's your new frontier!" Yes, by God, it was worth the -work, and the risk. Glory was right. It was something to be proud of.</p> - -<p>I'm going to the moon!</p> - -<p>Me, Pete Moore, to the <i>moon</i>!</p> - -<p>"There it is, Pete!"</p> - -<p>They had bumped through the painted door into a musty semi-darkness. -The walls were perforated with holes for stars, and from somewhere -below a huge yellowish moon was rising.</p> - -<p>Off a short way to the right was a glowing papier-mâché globe painted -with broad bands slightly askew, and behind that was another with rings.</p> - -<p>A loudspeaker whistled tinnily and overhead, on wire runners, an -electric globe crossed the dim chamber, pieces of yellow and white -crepe paper fluttering feebly behind.</p> - -<p>"Oh, Pete! A comet?"</p> - -<p>"Sure enough, Glory," he said.</p> - -<p>The rumbling little bullet skirted the walls and Pete could see the -electric lights behind the holes. Stars, he thought sardonically. Close -enough to touch. Lucky us.</p> - -<p>"There's Mars, Pete," Glory said, squeezing his hand.</p> - -<p>I'm getting disenchanted, he thought.</p> - -<p>A red ball, all painted with canals and white polar caps far too big.</p> - -<p>They should have had a technical advisor on this project, he thought. -Paging Palomar.</p> - -<p>The bullet began its second circuit of the papier-mâché universe, -and the moon was high now, projected on the wall by some kind of -lantern-slide lamp. There was a face on the moon.</p> - -<p>It began then—just a tiny bead of fear way down inside his belly. But -it grew. He felt suffocated, claustrophobic, oppressed by fakery and -cheapness.</p> - -<p>Glory was laughing with delight. "Oh, it's wonderful!"</p> - -<p>Shut up! Pete thought savagely. Shut up, <i>shut up</i>!</p> - -<p>With an effort, he got hold of himself.</p> - -<p>I've been working too hard. I'm jittery thinking about the moonshot, -and all this seedy burlesque just irritates me. There's nothing to get -heated up about. Calm down.</p> - -<p>But why am I suddenly afraid?</p> - -<p>He looked again at the ridiculous moon with its smirking face. He saw -that plaster had fallen from the wall in places, peeling away, leaving -the bare hexagons of wire and laths.</p> - -<p>My God, he thought. A chickenwire sky.</p> - -<p>He thought again of the girl in the ticket booth, and of the tired, -frightened people all laughing too much and shoving and running outside.</p> - -<p>The bullet started down at last, toward the hinged door. On this side -it was painted to look like Earth, with a distorted map of North -America. All wrong, somehow.</p> - -<p>Pete felt ill. It was as though someone were making ill-tempered fun -of the dreams and the tall silver ship waiting out on the desert. -Cheapening it. Laughing nastily.</p> - -<p>The little bullet bumped through the seedy, scruffy Earth and out -into the night of the midway, out into the crowd-sounds and music and -hot-doggy smells.</p> - -<p>"It was fun, Pete," Glory said.</p> - -<p>He helped her out onto the rickety platform. He had the insane notion -that the girl in the ticket booth and the lounging attendant were -laughing at him.</p> - -<p>"It sure was, honey," he said wearily, still feeling the illogical fear -of he-knew-not-what inside himself. "Real fun."</p> - -<p>Glory looked up at him, eyes alight and almost feverishly gay. "I did -what you are going to do. I touched the sky!"</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>New frontiers. New lands in the sky. New hope.</p> - -<p>It was quiet. The jet was still and no sound was anywhere in the ship. -Now a soft tick from the timer. A whisper from the questing radarscope. -And again, the stillness.</p> - -<p>We've done it, Pete thought. We've really done it. The hard part is -over.</p> - -<p>Ride the rocket!</p> - -<p>He remembered the pain of the takeoff and the absolute panic that had -welled up in him when the irrevocability of his action came home. He -remembered riding a tail of red fire up out of the hot desert air of -New Mexico into the still blue, and then the silence and the almost -unnerving thrill of the realization that the moonshot was going to -succeed.</p> - -<p>The radio hissed at him with the voice of the desert base half around -the world.</p> - -<p>"Hello moonshot. This is Base. All's okay. Stage one landed in the -Gulf. Stage two just reported floating off the Azores. Good show."</p> - -<p>Pete lifted himself from the acceleration couch and felt a moment of -nausea and panic as he floated toward the ceiling of the tiny cell. -Free flight. He steadied himself and checked the flow of telemetered -information binding the ship to the glowing curve far below. All okay. -Except that—</p> - -<p>Except that you're still afraid, he told himself. Not just the normal -fear-of-falling-afraid that the psychs told you about. Afraid like -before—in that silly damn carnival ride thing.</p> - -<p>Afraid of the dark?</p> - -<p>No, not quite that. More a closed in, cheated feeling.</p> - -<p>Premonition? Nonsense.</p> - -<p>He clung to the radarscope, trembling. With every rushing mile upward, -outward, his fear was growing. It wasn't right, it didn't make sense. -But he felt as though he were rushing straight at a brick wall, head -down, eyes closed.</p> - -<p>He lit the telescreens.</p> - -<p>The stars look funny, he thought uneasily.</p> - -<p>The timer ticked. The radar whispered, searching. Time passed and his -fear grew thicker, less reasonable.</p> - -<p>His fingers dug hard at the metal of the instrument panel as the night -slipped by outside the hull. The ship's orbital ellipse, Kepler's -contribution to the new frontier, was established.</p> - -<p>Pete thought, something's wrong. Very wrong. The stars look queer.</p> - -<p>The constellations in the telescreens were distorting, and there -was something ahead of the ship where there should be nothing but -emptiness. It showed in the screen for just an instant and was lost. A -ringed sphere.</p> - -<p>I must be dreaming, Pete thought. But then, what is reality? That -sphere was Saturn. And it was a hundred yards across.</p> - -<p>Reality? <i>Insanity!</i></p> - -<p>I'd better check with Base, Pete thought, and tell them I've gone off -my rocker, that I'm suffering hallucinations.</p> - -<p>But he did nothing except cling shaking to the panel, watching the -distorted stars in the screen. They were blurring now, streaks of light -that seemed to be very close to the ship.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>And then came the moon. It came and went very quickly, pocked and -scarred and with only one face. And <i>small</i>. Very small and very close.</p> - -<p>Pete felt closed in, suffocated. The radar alarm was screaming at him -that something was near, too near.</p> - -<p>He clamped down savagely on himself. There was an explanation -somewhere. He had to find it! He had to think!</p> - -<p>Item. The stars. Distorted. Blurred.</p> - -<p>Item. Saturn. A hundred yards across.</p> - -<p>Item. A tiny replica of the moon, like a pimple on the inside of an egg.</p> - -<p>Replica? No. <i>The</i> moon. The only moon. Reality.</p> - -<p>Hypothesis. Say that space is not as men imagined it. Say that it is an -illusion, without lightyears, without great suns, without huge planets. -Say for the sake of argument that it is a shell with holes in it, and -light outside, and the Sun itself an illusion of heat and power, and—</p> - -<p>Say that this hollow shell is man's new frontier; a fraud, a toy for -things outside—</p> - -<p>The alarm screamed at him. The ship was plunging toward the blurry -light of the stars.</p> - -<p>With an icy hand on his heart, Pete Moore turned to look at the -telescreen behind him. A misty blue ball swam in musty darkness. The -oceans gleamed in the light of the sun, cloud masses whitened it, the -wrinkled face of the land looked unreal—</p> - -<p>He began to laugh. Tears streaked his cheeks as he pounded his bloody -fists against the instrument panel in time to the clanging of the alarm.</p> - -<p>The Earth, the Earth—</p> - -<p>It <i>did</i> rather look like papier-mâché.</p> - -<p>He touched the sky.</p> - -<div style='display:block; margin-top:4em'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TOUCH THE SKY ***</div> -<div style='text-align:left'> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will -be renamed. -</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -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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