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    No Moving Parts
    No Moving Parts
    No Moving Parts
    Ebook32 pages22 minutes

    No Moving Parts

    By Murray F. Yaco

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    We call them trouble-shooters. They called 'em Gypsies. Either way, they were hep to that whole bit about.... A futuristic tale of man and technology. A warning about losing your past.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStart Classics
    Release dateMay 16, 2014
    ISBN9781633550964
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      A neat little story about an ailing alien, a stuck starship door, a tinkerer, and a professional engineer -- and the junior communications officer caught in the middle of the situation. The ending is a little up in the air (had he hit Amazing SF’s word limit?) but a nice classic SF story.-Lisa Shapter

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    No Moving Parts - Murray F. Yaco

    Hansen was sitting at the control board in the single building on Communications Relay Station 43.4SC, when the emergency light flashed on for the first time in two hundred years.

    With textbook-recommended swiftness, he located the position of the ship sending the call, identified the ship and the name of its captain, and made contact.

    This is Hansen on 43.4SC. Put me through to Captain Fromer.

    Fromer here, said an incredible deep voice, what the devil do you want?

    What do I want? asked the astonished Hansen. It was you, sir, who sent the emergency call.

    I did no such thing, said Fromer with great certainty.

    But the light flashed--

    How long have you been out of school? Fromer asked.

    Almost a year, sir, but that doesn't change the fact that--

    That you're imagining things and that you've been sitting on that asteroid hoping that something would happen to break the monotony. Now leave me the hell alone or I'll put you on report.

    Now look here, Hansen began, practically beside himself with frustration, I saw that emergency light go on. Maybe it was activated automatically when something went out of order on your ship.

    I don't allow emergencies on the Euclid Queen, said Fromer with growing anger. Now, if you don't--

    Hansen spared himself the indignity of being cut off. He broke contact himself. He sighed, reached for a book entitled Emergency Procedure Rules, and settled back in his chair.

    Fifteen minutes later the emergency light flashed on for the second time in two hundred years. With its red glow illuminating his freckled excited face, Hansen triumphantly placed another call to the Euclid Queen.

    This is Hansen on 43.4SC. Let me speak to Captain Fromer, please.

    "Er--the Captain has asked me to contact you. I'm the navigator. I was just about to call

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