September 2, 2024 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Adventures in Time and Space told in Future ten in
the National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Street and Smith,
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publishers of Astounding science fiction, Bring you Dimension X.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
This is the story of the second expedition to the
planet of Landor. I am recording it for any future
expeditions which might land on this god forsaken sphere, and
to hope that they may learn from our tragic example.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Is I right?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
There are two of us left, two out of an
original complement.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Of one hundred and eighty men.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
One of us, myself will be dead in less than
twenty seven minutes. That's for the other. Heaven have mercy
on him. This is how it happened. On June third,
nineteen ninety seven, less than two months ago, the last
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of our supply ships blasted off Lambdeau, headed for Well.
There she goes, like a big bottom bird, like to
be a border. That here is me.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Oh listen, captain, I've been kicking her ound with you
from one planet to another for so long.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Now they're all getting to be the same. Not this one.
Bat is not Landro No. No, maybe you're right there.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
I'll never be known one like this.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
It's the cemetery That's what it is, a big cold cemetery.
They're empty cities, That's what does it sitting there like
there was tombs, bad airs.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
You're getting to be a poet in your old age.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I ain't so poetic.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
I didn't remember the swipe of Buttler Irish or if
that supply ship.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Why you know, Brady, if you weren't the best all
around cook and trouble shooter I ever shipped, i'd court marshal.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Well, since I ain't being court marshal all about, we
should open this Irish head time.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
It came the supper tonight, right right. We walked back
to the cluster of plastic huts we call the base.
It was beginning to freeze up in that purple splow
had settled across the planet. Yes, it was like a cemurary,
all right, the cemetery of dead cities.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
We walked past one of them, a huge.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Plastic dome with tall, graceful buildings, atomic power systems, vacuum,
the conveyors, all perfect, all deserted, all on us. How
had it happened? Nobody knew for sure, but the best
guess was that the plague had frightened the original inhabitants
of the planet, so that they had piled into rocket
chips and headed for some distant planet.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
I often wondered why.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
A civilization so advanced as Landro could not find a
serum to beat the plague. Well, maybe the Aborigines back
in the hills knew the answer. Those strange, ugly little
people who had taken to the caves the day we landed.
All we knew of them was what we found in
the anthropological report of the expedition which preceded ours, and
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an occasional glimpse by someone on a hunting patrol. When
I reached my shack, Morgan, the expedition surgeon, was waiting
for me. He was sweating like a pig. And it
wasn't the heat, because my shack was as cold.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
As a grave. Good evening kept them borrow.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
What brings you here?
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Exactly? The mother of the serums? What about the serum?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
It's uh, it's just that it's no good, no good,
it's too cold, ten years too cold. But didn't you
examine it? Yes, yes I did. But well, my eyesight
has been failing lately. Well are you aware, doctor, that
the last supply ship has returned to Earth. Do you
know we'll have no more contact for two years? I
must have misread the label, sir, Dr Morgan, guess how
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long do you give us? Well? The present immunity will
last a week or so, and then it's just a
question of time until someone picks up the plague after
that a month two months at most. Do you have
any thoughts as to how we might save ourselves?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
No, sir, I'm afraid not.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
What about the natives? They don't die in the flag.
They must have a treatment for it. If they didn't,
there would be no natives. Would you be willing to
go on an expedition to the hills to find out?
Right now, Captain, I'd be willing to do anything, absolutely anything.
I'm truly sorry, sir, Sorry, Doctor Morgan. Would you mind
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telling me how it feels to murder one hundred and
eighty men one hundred and eighty one, including yourself? I
did a lot of thinking after Doctor Morgan let my
hunt was still unreal for me. After all, the planning
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of an expedition was no simple thing. You put into
it the results of years of training and experience. Every
man on my crew was handpicked for his skill, and
yet the simple thing like a myopic surgeon. Misreading a
label could bust the whole thing. Yes, it was a shame.
I did the only thing I could think of. I
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yelled for Batiyear's brady wady, get to talk. I thin
here and hurry it out. Okay, okay, what's up?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Sit down, battiers.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
You got trouble.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
We got trouble. What seerum? It's no good? What Morgan
forgot that? Check it? It's ten years too old. Holy
jump and snails.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
You're gonna court Marshal.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
I wouldn't do much good.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
We'll all be dead pretty soon unless somebody figures something out.
Why did they send these subvidians with us? Well, it
was a mistake. Anybody can make a mistake, only this
was a big one. I wrote, What are you gonna do? Now?
There's only one chance? One chance in ten million? What
the natives them cave rats? What good can they do
is they don't get the plague? So so maybe they
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know cure or listen, those gimbos don't know nothing. Take
it from me. It's the only chance. Okay, let's get
a few of them and beat it out of That's
why you're here. Shoot, how'd you like to come along
on a little expedition up to the cave country. That's
a good way to die young.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
We die young anyway. Okay, what's the pitch now?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
We don't dare let the rest of the camp, No,
we would knock on morale the pieces.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Who's going? You, Me, the doctor, and Fuckner Falkner listen.
I right, he's worse than the dog.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I know he isn't exactly the man for a hunting trip,
but he knows more about the native culture than anybody here.
He's the only one who's completely familiar with the records
of the first expedition.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Okay, so it's me, you, the Dark and Forkner. When
do we start tonight?
Speaker 2 (07:24):
In half an hour now, we should reach the cave
country by tomorrow, for luck will be able to find
natives before night. And then the fun starts. You know,
I red them gimpos don't exactly love us. Nobody loves us,
bat ears. That's one of the great paradoxes about this job.
We come here to help them, to civilize them so
they can live like human beings instead of pack rats,
and they run off to the hills and hide from
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us like we had the almost said Plague. Okay, Bat here,
get the doc and fuckner. Benny Faulkner's body was small
and consumptive, but.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
He had a good brain.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
He was the best anthropologist the End of the Planet
Institute could recommend. He and doctor Morgan were the only
two civilians.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
On the expedition.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
The rest of us were all army or space patrol,
and we hadn't been watching very long before Benny's frail
constitution began to show signs of.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Wear and tear.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Benny, it's not just the dust. I'm allergic to dust.
Hear that he's allergic to dust.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
We better call up the expedition.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Hey, bat Is, yes, sir, I want to rest a while,
a partner. It's okay. I can make it now. We
should be in the cave country in an hour, so
it'll be daybreak then, and they're going.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
He'll be easier, how about you, doctor?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
All right, I'll make it.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Okay, let's go.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
I what is it?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Don't look now, but very slowly turn your eyes to
the right and look behind that big yellow rock. Okay,
you see anything? Now, keep looking, don't stop walking the
let out. Don't care.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
There, but look like a shadow of sun it's one
of them gimpos.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
You've been following us now for almost an hour, dodging
in and out behind rocks. I think there's more of
them too, but I couldn't swear. Oh anyway, they know
we're coming, that's for sure. What do you think should
we bring one in? Not yet, We don't know how
many of them there are. Just pretend you don't see them,
and above all, tell the others to show no signs
of fear. There's nothing will start the simple minded caveman
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like fear.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
That was it.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
The manual said, under no circumstances shall a member of
the patrol displayed fear before the dignity of the earth
man must be preserved at all costs. Walk, erect, be
but just, and do not allow the native to feel
he is your superior. It was a good rule.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
It always worked.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Just before dawn we reached the cave country, we were
tired and hungry, and we stopped to cook some food
and rest. Everything was quiet. There's no sign of the gimpoys.
Bat ears called him, until come on, break the shure.
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I want your trouble. They held me.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
One of these gimpos snap around outside of the tent,
almost slit my throat, but one of those stone knives
he did.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Yeah, bring him into the light of the fire, or
we can get our luck. Yeah, right, partner, Yes, sir,
try to establish some communication, all right? Look, God, now,
I don't need to.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Knock him down bout here.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
That's the only language they understand, farkner, See if you
can reach him. Okay, captain, I don't need a drum
of some sorry? Oh what well? I find they communicate
with one another through a very primitive kind of vibration
of the tongue. Now, the closest it can come is
a series of drum beats, a sort of a Morse code.
A psychologist on the first expedition had it worked out
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before he was killed by the play I've studied his notes,
and I think it'll work. You mean these animals contured
to one another. I believe they can at any rate.
We'll have a chance to find out. Do we have
something I can use for a drum?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Oh? Here, kick my helmet?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Thank you that now I'll tap it four times. That's
a greeting of some sort. Well, just a moment, Yes, sir,
I don't want you treating this fellow like an equal
don't give him the idea that we're desperate. Once they
sensed that we lost all right, here we go. Now
I'll give him the helmet good. He seems to understand.
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What shall I ask him, Sir? Now, first tell him
we come in peace. Reassure him that we don't wish
to hurt him or his people. I'll try. He seems
to understand. He wants to answer it well, he says,
others like you came to Landro You must.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Mean the first expedition.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Go on. I want you to lead around to the
subject of the plague gradually. Don't let on that we're desperate.
I'll do my best, sir. With this strange sight on
one side of the helmet, crouched little Benny Faulkner. Across
from him crouched the Landean, a humpbacked, gray little creature
with an enormous head and those soft lavender eyes.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I'm setting forth in this narrative.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
The transcript of their conversation, as Benny Faulkner later transcribed
it from the best of his memory. Faulkner, we come
as friends. Native Why Faulkner will help you to rebuild
your cities and make your machines work again. Why we
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want to help you to enjoy the benefits of the
great culture which once drive on land? Why because we
want to help you.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
If we ask you not to help us, will you
go away?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
We stay for your own good. We have helped many
others on other planets. Oh, we teach them a better
way to live. Their way of life was better than
your way.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Have you tried our way?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Why were your cities abandoned? Was it the plague? Yes?
Do you still fear the plague? Yes? Do any of
your people become afflicted? So? How do you treat them?
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How do you keep the plague from spreading? Do you
have a cure? How can we find a cure for
the plague?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Go among my people?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Will we find the answer among your people?
Speaker 3 (14:17):
My people have the answer?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Will you tell me the answer? Go among my people?
The drum beats ended. As far as the Landing was concerned,
the conversation was ended. He rose to go, and Faulkner
stepped from his path.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
But Brady was there to insure the bad old don
their buco. You ain't going no place.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
I'll maltreat him, Brady. What do you say, Benny? He
says his people have the answer.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
What do you think?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Oh, there may be some truth in it, he says.
Some of his people still get the plague. That must
mean it isn't a question of immunity. They must have
a cure. Well, he wasn't clear on that, doctor, And
they must have a vaccine to keep it from spreading.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Does he know?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Evidently not.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
I could beat it out of him.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I don't think he's lying. Well, that leaves it up
to us. Now, the first level of caves are on
top of that cliff about a mile ahead. It's a trap.
I'll bet my last dollar room. Maybe not, we'll have
to risk it. I'll wait, Yes, doctor, let me go.
I got you all into this. How will you talk? Well,
Benny here can give me enough of the cold so
I can ask a big question. All right, doctor, we'll
wait at the foot of the cliff. You're going ahead.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
If you aren't back down in three hours, we'll come
up back here.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
What about the gimpo we've got and we'll hold him
as a hostage to ensure the doctor's safety.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
After Doc comes back, all right, we'll let him go.
Your job, that is, he'll play. Sure, I'll kick him natch.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
But if he gives me any trouble, I'll take your
shovel to his bottom.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
You can count on that.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I'll pick doctor Morgan about an hour to pick his
way up the side of the cliff to the first.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Of the openings as a landry in flat. He waved
to us.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Before he entered the mouth of the cave, and we
waved back. Then we settled down to wait. It was
a long, long wait. At eight o'clock, he's been up
there more than three hours. I r I'll give him
a little more time. It's getting colder.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
I'll keep the fire going.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
You think we'd heard something, But now if there was
gonna knock him off on me, I'm not necessarily I wait.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
But up on the cliff, that's the doctor. What's he
running for?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
He looks scared, crazy fool.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
If you don't look down, now him over and look odd.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
We found him the foot of the cliff, crumpled and broken.
We never knew why he had thrown himself off. Scrawled
across the pad he had taken with him on which
to make notes concerning the answer was.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
A single word. The word was cut his head. The
expedition was a Faye.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Okay, that's it.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
I have to head back for camp and just wait
and pray.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Not just yet. I okay, what's on your mind, Badier?
If it's all the same to you, I'd like to
take the gimbo here out behind the rocks and have
a talk with him. Okay, I why do you think
your accomplished? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Just a quiet little chalk.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
No violence, no violence, just the real, earnest type conversation. Okay.
It was one of those decisions a commanding officer dreads
one hundred and eighty lives against the chance that Battiers
could persuade the little gray man to give an answer
you might not even know. I nodded, and Battiers took
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the little native off behind an outcropping of rock. He
was back in fifteen minutes, dripping with sweat. Well, let's
go nothing. Huh but nothing they see? Yeah, they ain't
made very good, those little great people. They he come
apart too easy.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
So let's go.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I d alright, that Benny, the Benny, what is I
feel kind of sick all of a sudden. H He's
got a weak stomach, dust stalergy.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
And wait a minute, what is it?
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Benny? Back of my head. Dull kind of pains to
got your tongue. Ah, give him my hand by the ears.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
We've got to get him back to camp.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Well it is I'm not sure, but that blackness on
the tongue and the headache, it could.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Be the plague.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
At the time he got plenty talking back to camp.
We had the red spots on his body, and then
the favor began to rage. It was a plague, no
mistake about it. Before morning Collins was supply side and mated.
Then there was teabody. After that the men went down
like ten minutes. They screamed and moaned, and then they died.
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I'm oh abouts I r I drank. It's the last
of the complmenticae. Cool tired, Oh man, I'd never been
so tired.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
What's the count?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
We lost six or more today? Six?
Speaker 3 (19:45):
That makes twenty nine dead, twenty nine and lessen the weak.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Sim stinking natives they put the whare meun?
Speaker 3 (19:52):
I take it. He's easy.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
I'd like to take a machine gun up to them
hills and not go off the whole bunch of how's benny, Uh,
that's a funny thing. I went into his tenth this morning,
figure and sure he'd be dead by now. Instead, I
see his fevers down a couple of points, excellently.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
He usually gets him in a matter of days. Falcon
has been hanging on for weeks now, well keep an
eye on him.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
It was a nightmare of eternity after that, him ceaseless
around the chearing for the stricken, them, helping with the graves,
and writing in the book. The names of those who
died sweep came in snatches over when we were alway
exhaustedly couldn't stand.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Then one morning, Batti is brag.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
He dragged himself into my shack, said, down, Baddy, what's
a count six left? We buried the chaplain today you
got a cigarette?
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Make sure I was fucking. I don't get it. He's
still alive.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
He's getting better, sitting up hot leaving macroft.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Uh, just a good cigarette, h like any other.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
No, No, this one's different, Ira, it's my last.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Take a look at my tail and iron. Let me
see little black spots. Somehow my money used to get
him into bed. It was already raving when I gave
him the last of them walking. It was incredible, big
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brawling Battier's Grady, a tower of strength, lying sick and
whimpering on a cot.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
I went out on the moors to think the sun.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Was a stull red door, cold breeze with du.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
The planet that landro with an INTI.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
I thought about Battiers and doctor Morgan and Benny Faulkner.
Why should Faulkner of all of us recover from the
plague from which you were Maddie the covered? I turned
and went back to see Benny Farkner.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Hello, Captain, Hello Benny? How are you? It's good?
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Got up and walked a couple of steps today. How
goes it?
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Brady's down?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Oh? Listen, Benny. There must be some reason why you
survived the virus. Well, how about you? Why didn't you
ever even get it? I give it time? What can
I do? I want you to tell me everything you
know about yourself, everything you can remember. But why, because
somewhere in your makeup is some little thing that makes
the difference. At least I can leave a record for
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any future expedition that comes to Landro. Okay, okay, Captain Warre,
Where do you want me to start.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
At the beginning? Now I'm going to take notes.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Well, I was born on the second of July in
nineteen seventy one. My parents were ordinary people, my father,
and I've told you everything I can remember for three days.
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Now you've questioned me. All right, I'll take it from
where the natives started to walk away. You stepped out
of his path and Brady grabbed him. Okay, so I
stepped out of his path. Why what do you mean?
Why why did you step out of his path? Well?
Why not? Courtesy? That's why? What's the matter?
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Good?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
You see, that's the word that doctor Morgan had written in.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
His note book. I don't see you. I don't They
told me. Why should you want to be courteous?
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Door native?
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Why not? What about maintaining your own dignity? Talking about
dignity or arrogance? Look, I don't get this at all. Captain.
You're familiar with the records left for the first expedition, Benny,
what happened.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
With the natives?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Well, the natives were friendly enough at first, but after
a while they went back to the caves. When we
got here, they wouldn't come near us, right right, Yet
we came to help them. So why so maybe this, Benny,
maybe we were all wet non deductions. Maybe those cities
weren't deserted centuries ago. After all, maybe these little people
up in the caves are the same people who used
to live in those cities. Why should they leave? Well,
maybe they found out that the big cities weren't the answer.
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Maybe they found out that civilization doesn't necessarily bring happiness,
so they just packed up and left, returned to the
simple life. That doesn't make sense. You're forgetting the plague.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Benny, What is the plague? Well, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
I think the plague was nothing more than what we
know is greed inherdence.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Captain.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
You're going off your rock. I think maybe we were
in line to die of it, even if the serum
had been good. Violates all the laws of Earth. We
aren't on Earth. We're on land Rill, a planet a
million light years from home. Now, why are we trying
to take these primitive, happy people and make them like ourselves?
Why are we trying to mold them, to convince them
that they belong in cities, that they should be building
better can openers instead of just enjoying human relationships. Why, Benny,
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if that isn't sheerest stupid, crazy arrogance, My name isn't.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Ira Warren twel a four, wasn't that nice? Three days
later that hears Brady dying. In his delirium.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
He was howling about how if he could just get
his hands on one of those stinking natives, he'd wring
the answer out of him. After I buried him, I
went back to Benny Faulkner's ten Faulkner's getting out of
bed as entered, how was he? Captain? I just.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Married it, lean mother, and have it.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
It means two of us, two out of a hundred
and eighty, not two, just one. Oh, but but you're alright.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
I have a headache. I'm getting to sweat a little too. Oh.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Can I help you any No? No, I think I'll
go back to my shock and finish writing the report.
Well maybe it isn't the plague, No, Benny, I I've
seen it too many times.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Kidding myself about it.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Lord Captain, you don't believe that junk about courtesy, do you?
I mean that stuff you were talking about the other night.
That's a lot of nonsense. You must know that Holy
America of Captain. You can't believe us. You can't.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Good night, Benny.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
I think.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
I'd like to be alone for.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Okay, good night, Captain one hum that I am turning
it over to Anny Falkner, and I hope that he
will be able to transmit it to any other expedition
commander who contemplates exploring the planet of the land. The
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favors beginning to mount. Now my hands tremble as I write.
The ends should not be far off.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
You see, I didn't have a chance. I stepped out.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Of no paths.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
You have just heard another adventure into the unknown world
of the future, the world of.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
We are just beginning to discover how boundless our universe
really is. And yet, what would it be like to
live in a world no larger, say than a single
gigantic rocket ship. You'll find out more about it on
Dimension X next week, where we present Robert Heinlein's Universe.
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Company in cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers of the
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courtesy from the current issue of a Standing Science Fiction
was written for radio by George Lefferts from the story
by Clifford Simak, featured in the cast where Larson Zerby
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as Captain Warren, Bill Zuckert has Battier's Brady, and Bill
Gray as Benny fought.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Your host was Norman Rose. Music by Albert Berman.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
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Speaker 2 (00:42):
This is the story of the second expedition to the
planet of Landor. I am recording it for any future
expeditions which might land on this god forsaken sphere, and
to hope that they may learn from our tragic example.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Is I right?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
There are two of us left, two out of an
original complement.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Of one hundred and eighty men.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
One of us, myself will be dead in less than
twenty seven minutes. That's for the other. Heaven have mercy
on him. This is how it happened. On June third,
nineteen ninety seven, less than two months ago, the last
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of our supply ships blasted off Lambdeau, headed for Well.
There she goes, like a big bottom bird, like to
be a border. That here is me.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Oh listen, captain, I've been kicking her ound with you
from one planet to another for so long.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Now they're all getting to be the same. Not this one.
Bat is not Landro No. No, maybe you're right there.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
I'll never be known one like this.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
It's the cemetery That's what it is, a big cold cemetery.
They're empty cities, That's what does it sitting there like
there was tombs, bad airs.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
You're getting to be a poet in your old age.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I ain't so poetic.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
I didn't remember the swipe of Buttler Irish or if
that supply ship.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Why you know, Brady, if you weren't the best all
around cook and trouble shooter I ever shipped, i'd court marshal.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Well, since I ain't being court marshal all about, we
should open this Irish head time.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
It came the supper tonight, right right. We walked back
to the cluster of plastic huts we call the base.
It was beginning to freeze up in that purple splow
had settled across the planet. Yes, it was like a cemurary,
all right, the cemetery of dead cities.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
We walked past one of them, a huge.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Plastic dome with tall, graceful buildings, atomic power systems, vacuum,
the conveyors, all perfect, all deserted, all on us. How
had it happened? Nobody knew for sure, but the best
guess was that the plague had frightened the original inhabitants
of the planet, so that they had piled into rocket
chips and headed for some distant planet.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
I often wondered why.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
A civilization so advanced as Landro could not find a
serum to beat the plague. Well, maybe the Aborigines back
in the hills knew the answer. Those strange, ugly little
people who had taken to the caves the day we landed.
All we knew of them was what we found in
the anthropological report of the expedition which preceded ours, and
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an occasional glimpse by someone on a hunting patrol. When
I reached my shack, Morgan, the expedition surgeon, was waiting
for me. He was sweating like a pig. And it
wasn't the heat, because my shack was as cold.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
As a grave. Good evening kept them borrow.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
What brings you here?
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Exactly? The mother of the serums? What about the serum?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
It's uh, it's just that it's no good, no good,
it's too cold, ten years too cold. But didn't you
examine it? Yes, yes I did. But well, my eyesight
has been failing lately. Well are you aware, doctor, that
the last supply ship has returned to Earth. Do you
know we'll have no more contact for two years? I
must have misread the label, sir, Dr Morgan, guess how
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long do you give us? Well? The present immunity will
last a week or so, and then it's just a
question of time until someone picks up the plague after
that a month two months at most. Do you have
any thoughts as to how we might save ourselves?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
No, sir, I'm afraid not.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
What about the natives? They don't die in the flag.
They must have a treatment for it. If they didn't,
there would be no natives. Would you be willing to
go on an expedition to the hills to find out?
Right now, Captain, I'd be willing to do anything, absolutely anything.
I'm truly sorry, sir, Sorry, Doctor Morgan. Would you mind
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telling me how it feels to murder one hundred and
eighty men one hundred and eighty one, including yourself? I
did a lot of thinking after Doctor Morgan let my
hunt was still unreal for me. After all, the planning
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of an expedition was no simple thing. You put into
it the results of years of training and experience. Every
man on my crew was handpicked for his skill, and
yet the simple thing like a myopic surgeon. Misreading a
label could bust the whole thing. Yes, it was a shame.
I did the only thing I could think of. I
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yelled for Batiyear's brady wady, get to talk. I thin
here and hurry it out. Okay, okay, what's up?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Sit down, battiers.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
You got trouble.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
We got trouble. What seerum? It's no good? What Morgan
forgot that? Check it? It's ten years too old. Holy
jump and snails.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
You're gonna court Marshal.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
I wouldn't do much good.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
We'll all be dead pretty soon unless somebody figures something out.
Why did they send these subvidians with us? Well, it
was a mistake. Anybody can make a mistake, only this
was a big one. I wrote, What are you gonna do? Now?
There's only one chance? One chance in ten million? What
the natives them cave rats? What good can they do
is they don't get the plague? So so maybe they
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know cure or listen, those gimbos don't know nothing. Take
it from me. It's the only chance. Okay, let's get
a few of them and beat it out of That's
why you're here. Shoot, how'd you like to come along
on a little expedition up to the cave country. That's
a good way to die young.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
We die young anyway. Okay, what's the pitch now?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
We don't dare let the rest of the camp, No,
we would knock on morale the pieces.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Who's going? You, Me, the doctor, and Fuckner Falkner listen.
I right, he's worse than the dog.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I know he isn't exactly the man for a hunting trip,
but he knows more about the native culture than anybody here.
He's the only one who's completely familiar with the records
of the first expedition.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Okay, so it's me, you, the Dark and Forkner. When
do we start tonight?
Speaker 2 (07:24):
In half an hour now, we should reach the cave
country by tomorrow, for luck will be able to find
natives before night. And then the fun starts. You know,
I red them gimpos don't exactly love us. Nobody loves us,
bat ears. That's one of the great paradoxes about this job.
We come here to help them, to civilize them so
they can live like human beings instead of pack rats,
and they run off to the hills and hide from
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us like we had the almost said Plague. Okay, Bat here,
get the doc and fuckner. Benny Faulkner's body was small
and consumptive, but.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
He had a good brain.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
He was the best anthropologist the End of the Planet
Institute could recommend. He and doctor Morgan were the only
two civilians.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
On the expedition.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
The rest of us were all army or space patrol,
and we hadn't been watching very long before Benny's frail
constitution began to show signs of.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Wear and tear.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Benny, it's not just the dust. I'm allergic to dust.
Hear that he's allergic to dust.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
We better call up the expedition.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Hey, bat Is, yes, sir, I want to rest a while,
a partner. It's okay. I can make it now. We
should be in the cave country in an hour, so
it'll be daybreak then, and they're going.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
He'll be easier, how about you, doctor?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
All right, I'll make it.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Okay, let's go.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
I what is it?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Don't look now, but very slowly turn your eyes to
the right and look behind that big yellow rock. Okay,
you see anything? Now, keep looking, don't stop walking the
let out. Don't care.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
There, but look like a shadow of sun it's one
of them gimpos.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
You've been following us now for almost an hour, dodging
in and out behind rocks. I think there's more of
them too, but I couldn't swear. Oh anyway, they know
we're coming, that's for sure. What do you think should
we bring one in? Not yet, We don't know how
many of them there are. Just pretend you don't see them,
and above all, tell the others to show no signs
of fear. There's nothing will start the simple minded caveman
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like fear.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
That was it.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
The manual said, under no circumstances shall a member of
the patrol displayed fear before the dignity of the earth
man must be preserved at all costs. Walk, erect, be
but just, and do not allow the native to feel
he is your superior. It was a good rule.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
It always worked.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Just before dawn we reached the cave country, we were
tired and hungry, and we stopped to cook some food
and rest. Everything was quiet. There's no sign of the gimpoys.
Bat ears called him, until come on, break the shure.
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I want your trouble. They held me.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
One of these gimpos snap around outside of the tent,
almost slit my throat, but one of those stone knives
he did.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Yeah, bring him into the light of the fire, or
we can get our luck. Yeah, right, partner, Yes, sir,
try to establish some communication, all right? Look, God, now,
I don't need to.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Knock him down bout here.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
That's the only language they understand, farkner, See if you
can reach him. Okay, captain, I don't need a drum
of some sorry? Oh what well? I find they communicate
with one another through a very primitive kind of vibration
of the tongue. Now, the closest it can come is
a series of drum beats, a sort of a Morse code.
A psychologist on the first expedition had it worked out
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before he was killed by the play I've studied his notes,
and I think it'll work. You mean these animals contured
to one another. I believe they can at any rate.
We'll have a chance to find out. Do we have
something I can use for a drum?
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Oh? Here, kick my helmet?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Thank you that now I'll tap it four times. That's
a greeting of some sort. Well, just a moment, Yes, sir,
I don't want you treating this fellow like an equal
don't give him the idea that we're desperate. Once they
sensed that we lost all right, here we go. Now
I'll give him the helmet good. He seems to understand.
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What shall I ask him, Sir? Now, first tell him
we come in peace. Reassure him that we don't wish
to hurt him or his people. I'll try. He seems
to understand. He wants to answer it well, he says,
others like you came to Landro You must.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Mean the first expedition.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Go on. I want you to lead around to the
subject of the plague gradually. Don't let on that we're desperate.
I'll do my best, sir. With this strange sight on
one side of the helmet, crouched little Benny Faulkner. Across
from him crouched the Landean, a humpbacked, gray little creature
with an enormous head and those soft lavender eyes.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
I'm setting forth in this narrative.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
The transcript of their conversation, as Benny Faulkner later transcribed
it from the best of his memory. Faulkner, we come
as friends. Native Why Faulkner will help you to rebuild
your cities and make your machines work again. Why we
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want to help you to enjoy the benefits of the
great culture which once drive on land? Why because we
want to help you.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
If we ask you not to help us, will you
go away?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
We stay for your own good. We have helped many
others on other planets. Oh, we teach them a better
way to live. Their way of life was better than
your way.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Have you tried our way?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Why were your cities abandoned? Was it the plague? Yes?
Do you still fear the plague? Yes? Do any of
your people become afflicted? So? How do you treat them?
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How do you keep the plague from spreading? Do you
have a cure? How can we find a cure for
the plague?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Go among my people?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Will we find the answer among your people?
Speaker 3 (14:17):
My people have the answer?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Will you tell me the answer? Go among my people?
The drum beats ended. As far as the Landing was concerned,
the conversation was ended. He rose to go, and Faulkner
stepped from his path.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
But Brady was there to insure the bad old don
their buco. You ain't going no place.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
I'll maltreat him, Brady. What do you say, Benny? He
says his people have the answer.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
What do you think?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Oh, there may be some truth in it, he says.
Some of his people still get the plague. That must
mean it isn't a question of immunity. They must have
a cure. Well, he wasn't clear on that, doctor, And
they must have a vaccine to keep it from spreading.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Does he know?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Evidently not.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
I could beat it out of him.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I don't think he's lying. Well, that leaves it up
to us. Now, the first level of caves are on
top of that cliff about a mile ahead. It's a trap.
I'll bet my last dollar room. Maybe not, we'll have
to risk it. I'll wait, Yes, doctor, let me go.
I got you all into this. How will you talk? Well,
Benny here can give me enough of the cold so
I can ask a big question. All right, doctor, we'll
wait at the foot of the cliff. You're going ahead.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
If you aren't back down in three hours, we'll come
up back here.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
What about the gimpo we've got and we'll hold him
as a hostage to ensure the doctor's safety.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
After Doc comes back, all right, we'll let him go.
Your job, that is, he'll play. Sure, I'll kick him natch.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
But if he gives me any trouble, I'll take your
shovel to his bottom.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
You can count on that.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I'll pick doctor Morgan about an hour to pick his
way up the side of the cliff to the first.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Of the openings as a landry in flat. He waved
to us.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Before he entered the mouth of the cave, and we
waved back. Then we settled down to wait. It was
a long, long wait. At eight o'clock, he's been up
there more than three hours. I r I'll give him
a little more time. It's getting colder.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
I'll keep the fire going.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
You think we'd heard something, But now if there was
gonna knock him off on me, I'm not necessarily I wait.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
But up on the cliff, that's the doctor. What's he
running for?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
He looks scared, crazy fool.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
If you don't look down, now him over and look odd.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
We found him the foot of the cliff, crumpled and broken.
We never knew why he had thrown himself off. Scrawled
across the pad he had taken with him on which
to make notes concerning the answer was.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
A single word. The word was cut his head. The
expedition was a Faye.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Okay, that's it.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
I have to head back for camp and just wait
and pray.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Not just yet. I okay, what's on your mind, Badier?
If it's all the same to you, I'd like to
take the gimbo here out behind the rocks and have
a talk with him. Okay, I why do you think
your accomplished? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Just a quiet little chalk.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
No violence, no violence, just the real, earnest type conversation. Okay.
It was one of those decisions a commanding officer dreads
one hundred and eighty lives against the chance that Battiers
could persuade the little gray man to give an answer
you might not even know. I nodded, and Battiers took
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the little native off behind an outcropping of rock. He
was back in fifteen minutes, dripping with sweat. Well, let's
go nothing. Huh but nothing they see? Yeah, they ain't
made very good, those little great people. They he come
apart too easy.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
So let's go.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I d alright, that Benny, the Benny, what is I
feel kind of sick all of a sudden. H He's
got a weak stomach, dust stalergy.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
And wait a minute, what is it?
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Benny? Back of my head. Dull kind of pains to
got your tongue. Ah, give him my hand by the ears.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
We've got to get him back to camp.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Well it is I'm not sure, but that blackness on
the tongue and the headache, it could.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Be the plague.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
At the time he got plenty talking back to camp.
We had the red spots on his body, and then
the favor began to rage. It was a plague, no
mistake about it. Before morning Collins was supply side and mated.
Then there was teabody. After that the men went down
like ten minutes. They screamed and moaned, and then they died.
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I'm oh abouts I r I drank. It's the last
of the complmenticae. Cool tired, Oh man, I'd never been
so tired.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
What's the count?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
We lost six or more today? Six?
Speaker 3 (19:45):
That makes twenty nine dead, twenty nine and lessen the weak.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Sim stinking natives they put the whare meun?
Speaker 3 (19:52):
I take it. He's easy.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
I'd like to take a machine gun up to them
hills and not go off the whole bunch of how's benny, Uh,
that's a funny thing. I went into his tenth this morning,
figure and sure he'd be dead by now. Instead, I
see his fevers down a couple of points, excellently.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
He usually gets him in a matter of days. Falcon
has been hanging on for weeks now, well keep an
eye on him.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
It was a nightmare of eternity after that, him ceaseless
around the chearing for the stricken, them, helping with the graves,
and writing in the book. The names of those who
died sweep came in snatches over when we were alway
exhaustedly couldn't stand.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Then one morning, Batti is brag.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
He dragged himself into my shack, said, down, Baddy, what's
a count six left? We buried the chaplain today you
got a cigarette?
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Make sure I was fucking. I don't get it. He's
still alive.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
He's getting better, sitting up hot leaving macroft.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Uh, just a good cigarette, h like any other.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
No, No, this one's different, Ira, it's my last.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Take a look at my tail and iron. Let me
see little black spots. Somehow my money used to get
him into bed. It was already raving when I gave
him the last of them walking. It was incredible, big
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brawling Battier's Grady, a tower of strength, lying sick and
whimpering on a cot.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
I went out on the moors to think the sun.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Was a stull red door, cold breeze with du.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
The planet that landro with an INTI.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
I thought about Battiers and doctor Morgan and Benny Faulkner.
Why should Faulkner of all of us recover from the
plague from which you were Maddie the covered? I turned
and went back to see Benny Farkner.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Hello, Captain, Hello Benny? How are you? It's good?
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Got up and walked a couple of steps today. How
goes it?
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Brady's down?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Oh? Listen, Benny. There must be some reason why you
survived the virus. Well, how about you? Why didn't you
ever even get it? I give it time? What can
I do? I want you to tell me everything you
know about yourself, everything you can remember. But why, because
somewhere in your makeup is some little thing that makes
the difference. At least I can leave a record for
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any future expedition that comes to Landro. Okay, okay, Captain Warre,
Where do you want me to start.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
At the beginning? Now I'm going to take notes.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Well, I was born on the second of July in
nineteen seventy one. My parents were ordinary people, my father,
and I've told you everything I can remember for three days.
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Now you've questioned me. All right, I'll take it from
where the natives started to walk away. You stepped out
of his path and Brady grabbed him. Okay, so I
stepped out of his path. Why what do you mean?
Why why did you step out of his path? Well?
Why not? Courtesy? That's why? What's the matter?
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Good?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
You see, that's the word that doctor Morgan had written in.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
His note book. I don't see you. I don't They
told me. Why should you want to be courteous?
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Door native?
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Why not? What about maintaining your own dignity? Talking about
dignity or arrogance? Look, I don't get this at all. Captain.
You're familiar with the records left for the first expedition, Benny,
what happened.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
With the natives?
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Well, the natives were friendly enough at first, but after
a while they went back to the caves. When we
got here, they wouldn't come near us, right right, Yet
we came to help them. So why so maybe this, Benny,
maybe we were all wet non deductions. Maybe those cities
weren't deserted centuries ago. After all, maybe these little people
up in the caves are the same people who used
to live in those cities. Why should they leave? Well,
maybe they found out that the big cities weren't the answer.
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Maybe they found out that civilization doesn't necessarily bring happiness,
so they just packed up and left, returned to the
simple life. That doesn't make sense. You're forgetting the plague.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Benny, What is the plague? Well, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
I think the plague was nothing more than what we
know is greed inherdence.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Captain.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
You're going off your rock. I think maybe we were
in line to die of it, even if the serum
had been good. Violates all the laws of Earth. We
aren't on Earth. We're on land Rill, a planet a
million light years from home. Now, why are we trying
to take these primitive, happy people and make them like ourselves?
Why are we trying to mold them, to convince them
that they belong in cities, that they should be building
better can openers instead of just enjoying human relationships. Why, Benny,
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if that isn't sheerest stupid, crazy arrogance, My name isn't.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Ira Warren twel a four, wasn't that nice? Three days
later that hears Brady dying. In his delirium.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
He was howling about how if he could just get
his hands on one of those stinking natives, he'd wring
the answer out of him. After I buried him, I
went back to Benny Faulkner's ten Faulkner's getting out of
bed as entered, how was he? Captain? I just.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Married it, lean mother, and have it.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
It means two of us, two out of a hundred
and eighty, not two, just one. Oh, but but you're alright.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
I have a headache. I'm getting to sweat a little too. Oh.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Can I help you any No? No, I think I'll
go back to my shock and finish writing the report.
Well maybe it isn't the plague, No, Benny, I I've
seen it too many times.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Kidding myself about it.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Lord Captain, you don't believe that junk about courtesy, do you?
I mean that stuff you were talking about the other night.
That's a lot of nonsense. You must know that Holy
America of Captain. You can't believe us. You can't.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Good night, Benny.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
I think.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
I'd like to be alone for.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Okay, good night, Captain one hum that I am turning
it over to Anny Falkner, and I hope that he
will be able to transmit it to any other expedition
commander who contemplates exploring the planet of the land. The
(27:19):
favors beginning to mount. Now my hands tremble as I write.
The ends should not be far off.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
You see, I didn't have a chance. I stepped out.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Of no paths.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
You have just heard another adventure into the unknown world
of the future, the world of.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
We are just beginning to discover how boundless our universe
really is. And yet, what would it be like to
live in a world no larger, say than a single
gigantic rocket ship. You'll find out more about it on
Dimension X next week, where we present Robert Heinlein's Universe.
(28:33):
Demension X is presented each week by the National Broadcasting
Company in cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers of the
magazine of Standing Science Fiction. Today, Dimension X has presented
courtesy from the current issue of a Standing Science Fiction
was written for radio by George Lefferts from the story
by Clifford Simak, featured in the cast where Larson Zerby
(28:55):
as Captain Warren, Bill Zuckert has Battier's Brady, and Bill
Gray as Benny fought.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Your host was Norman Rose. Music by Albert Berman.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
Dimension X is produced by William Welch and directed by
Fred Way.
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