August 31, 2024 • 24 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Adventures in time and space, transcribed in Future Tents. The
National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers
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of Astounding science fiction, bring you Dimension X. The civilization
of the Galaxy, spread across two hundred million worlds. The
black void of space swarmed with the ships of the Empire,
But far off the trade routes, almost forgotten, lay the
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dying planet Earth, a backwater in galactic culture, a place
of eggtile, a pebble.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
In the sky. I landed on Earth on the one
spot which I would have called civilized, a patch along
the desolate heights of the Himalayas that surrounded the palace
of the Imperial Governor of Earth.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
HM. Doctor Belle Everdon of serious Sector. That's a familiar name.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Perhaps you've seen it in the Galactic Archaeological Journal, my Lord,
Dennis me no.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
No, I'm a soldier, not a scientist. It was a
newspaper article. You gave an interview about your expedition to Earth.
I suppose you want to start digging whatever can you
find on this miserable heap of rubble.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I don't consider Earth a miserable heap, my lord. It's
absolutely unique in the galaxy. You need. It's the only
inhabited planet that is radioactive.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
It's a big pen.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yes, I know, but this planet is inabitant. Biologists have
proven that on a radioactive world, high forms of life
cannot develop high forms.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
The rest of the galaxy hates the earth Men, and
they return it with the interest.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I don't think you understand. I'm not intolerant of anyone,
not even includes Earthmen. My theory is that life on
Earth originated before it was radioactive, as.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
A story like that in the earth Lore of the Ancient.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I know, I've read it.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Oh, I wouldn't admit that here if I were you,
doctor Abden. It's forbidden for outsiders to read it. The
Earthmen get pretty violent about their religion.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Do you mean the imperial police power here is defective?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
It is in cases sacrilege. Well, now, what do you
actually want to prove.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
That man originated in prehistoric times on Earth before space
travel and spread to the other planets.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Why are you seriously suggesting that at one time Earth
was the only inhabited planet and that man descended from Earthman,
there's a chance it might be, so you change your
mind when you see them, doctor, I'm not an anti terrestrial,
but as far as I can see, they're lazy and
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ignorant and generally inferior to us. I'm as liberal as
the next man, but it's a fact. Once an earth man,
always an earthman.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I book a passage to the city of Chica on
an earthline. My fellow passenger seemed dad ary enough, but
I was conscious of being alone among the Earthshak you guy,
I beg your pardon. Could you tell me what's going
on there?
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (03:53):
Sure? You see that couple, they've been married forty years.
It's their anniversary, Yes.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Sir years.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Hey mother, it seems I guessed today just.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
Like hey one, are you folks schedules for the sixty
sixteenth to Newda, Well, I hope you have a nice
day for it. My father reached us sixty in a
pouring rain, kept complaining we were getting soap. So I
told him, what are you complaining about? Dad? I've got to.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Compare this sixty they're talking about. Are they referring to
their sixtieth birthday?
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Sure, that's when they put you away. Euthanasian, it's a custom.
Can't have people living on eats up all the food
that's right.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Isn't it pop. Yes, sir, mother's coming with me when
I reached the sixty.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
She's not due for a couple of months, but she
thinks we might as well go together.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
Yeah, that's the spirit. There's many a man living past
the sixty sneaks stealing the foods from the next generation.
A guy should go when it's this, Yes, but suppose
it's only third. Hey, where are you from?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
I beg your pardon.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Asking all them questions.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yes, who are you spine?
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Where are you from?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I'm belaved from Barrong, serious sector?
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Oh an outsider? Come on?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Can you go forward? Did you hear that? Mother? And
outside that? I burned with indignation, earthman treating me like
an outcast earth man. When we landed, I followed my
intention of observing the human animal subspecies art in its
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native habitat, in this case a large departments. Perhaps I
resembled a floor walker, where a young Earth girl came
up to me and.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Asked the question, pardon me my father. He's about five four.
He wears islands as I think you're.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
On a brown cor I'm afraid I don't member of
saying anyone that.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
They followed me here. I've got to find them.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Are you in trouble? Miss?
Speaker 7 (06:06):
No, No, it's nothing really, I'm sorry about it.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
You attention, attention, please what's taken into the store? Will
kindly leave by the fifth street exit. This store is
being evacuated for radiation fever.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
What's all this about?
Speaker 4 (06:23):
They're after me? It is a really radiation fever too?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Who's after you?
Speaker 4 (06:28):
How am I going to get out of here? Every
chicken registration cards at the door?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Haven't you got one?
Speaker 7 (06:33):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (06:34):
But it has my name.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
I don't know what to do. Come on, but you.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Don't even know me.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I don't know anybody here, but you are an interesting
speech personally. This way your your own car.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Come on, wait a minute, hollo.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Sack, Yes, sir, down right there?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
But care officer? Are you with her? Yes? But you'd
better find out who I am later?
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Stand over there next?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Come on?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
What is it now?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Are you afraid of them? Don't worry about the outside
of mishecks. I'll handle them.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
No, don't cry, don't talk to the middle organs.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Do what they say. Don't even look. We'll see here
they are.
Speaker 9 (07:25):
All now you God, Jesse, I'm Lieutenant Cloudy Imperial Garrison,
who's got the feel if it please, your arms so
close that might be affected, I'll take over you worthy.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
What's your name?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Speak up, squaw, paula st registration papers?
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Here you are, sir?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
All right?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Now pick them up? Go on? Say look care now?
Speaker 7 (07:49):
What did you say?
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Earth?
Speaker 7 (07:51):
If you please?
Speaker 4 (07:52):
This man has nothing to do with me. I never
saw him before.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
What did you say? I don't like the way you
treat women, and i'd advise you to improve your manage.
And where have you been brought up?
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Ear?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
He is less number one? Are you? I am?
Speaker 4 (08:08):
But no.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Uronic whip?
Speaker 4 (08:12):
No? No, sir? Here all right now?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
What happened?
Speaker 4 (08:36):
They gave you full power and an ironic win? Where
are we the military base?
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
You should is that.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Well?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Doctor Avada?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
We seem to have had an unpleasant contret on the
city this afternoon. Unpleasant, I should put it stronger, Colonel,
as a free citizen of the Empire, had every right.
Who resents your legal treatment? I considered the whole incident unfortunate? Doctor?
Don't you think it would be best to forget the
whole matter? I think not. I have an appointment in
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a week with a procurator. Pooh, procurator, what do you
intend doing with mischecht. Uh, what would you suggest, sir?
I had freer immediately and off a hurrier.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Apologies, of course, if the young lady will accept my
sincere regrets, I will give the order for your release immediately.
Speaker 7 (09:44):
I don't understand they just turned us loose. Of course
you must be very important.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
I never heard of the outside as being that polite
to an earth man before.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I'm not an earth man, Paula what. I'm an archaeologist
from the outside.
Speaker 7 (10:04):
Oh, and you stood up to the soldiers because you
knew it were safe all along? And I thought, oh,
I should have known.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Polar does my nothing on Earth would make me any
different from five minutes ago?
Speaker 4 (10:19):
You might have told me, sir, if you don't mind,
don't call me sir.
Speaker 7 (10:25):
Don't be like the rest of them, like the rest
of whom, sir, the rest of the disgusting animals that
live on Earth.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Please, if you'll excuse me, sir, I must leap.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Oh wait, Pola, listen to me, Pola. I had access
to the Garrison files, and to satisfy idle curiosity, my
indexed Polar checked her father was a doctor, me cattle
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checked biologist and against his name was a black star
with a notation condemned in absentia charge evading the sixty.
That was why she was afraid. So I sent a
note asking her to meet me in the North Park
after dark.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Paula, over here, sit down. Oh, I want you to understand.
I wouldn't have come.
Speaker 7 (11:29):
Exit.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
I understand. I've seen your father's record.
Speaker 7 (11:35):
You know about it.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
I looked into it, Paula. There doesn't seem to be
much that it can be done about the sixty.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Oh, it's not for my father, it's for the whole galaxy.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Earth is going to revote?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
No, all of it. Oh, don't laugh it all the
galaxy has a volume of several million cubic light years.
It contains two hundred million inhabited planets. Earth is a
population of only twenty million and no resources. What can
Earth do?
Speaker 4 (12:07):
I don't know, doctor, but my father does.
Speaker 7 (12:10):
He's told me that Earth knows away by which it
can wipe out all outside life. And wait, listen, someone
coming park patrol.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Quick.
Speaker 7 (12:23):
Kiss me, don't be stupid, kiss me. They won't suspect anything.
Oh yes, of course, thank god, it's all right.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Now come with me. I'll take you to my father, doctor,
I ever done.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
This is a pleasure. I have read your articles in
the journal. It is hard to get copies. Our neighbors
don't care to trade with Earth. It's part of the
nearly insoluble problem of anti terrestialism. No one seems to
want a solution. Earthmen and outsiders alike.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Oh no, that is not true.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
There is a way of preserving our culture and living
as equals in a larger society. But the Zealots don't
think so. The Zellots, yes, they rule Earth.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Now.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
They are a small minority, but they have power, they
have plans. They planned the revolt. Paula told me, yes,
I say, why aren't your report as to the imperial
garrison the society of Earth. Ancients have guarded me too well. Besides,
they had a hold on me. I am sixty two.
You know the customs of Earth. The sixty years they
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allowed me to live on. The price was silence about
the weapon. You agree to this? I wanted to live.
What is this weapon? You are aware of the Earth's
peculiar environment, the radioactivity. Yes, over the years, we Earthmen
have built up certain immunities to radiation. Burns, for one,
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but it's a minute difference. I measured an experimental but doctor,
human life is not the only form affected by radiation
and mutation. There is microscopic life, bacteria, viruses. We have
been searching out such a virus, one to which earth
Men have developed a high degree of immunity, but not outsiders.
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You mean a particular disease, yes, common fever. It is
a mild children's disease here, like chicken pox or German measles,
But to outsiders it is radiation fever. Symptoms develop in
two hours, lips are so badly affected that the victim
cannot talk, and in two days he dies. They've isolated
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as virus, tons of it in crystalline form, and they
plan to let us loosen the galaxy by means of
a missiles. Then frightened refugees. We carry the disease across space.
Billions we die. You're sure about this, you have proof.
I worked on the project. We've got to get to
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the procurator. I can catch the evening claimer. Who is it?
I don't know. There should have been an allowed. I've
got to go out.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Is there.
Speaker 8 (15:27):
Don't hands in friendly?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
What's the meaning of this? I demanded that I'm a
galactic citizen. You've got no right to detain me without
legal authority.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
I am an earth Man, but I think you'll find
I am all the authority needed at this moment, Doctor Avadan.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
I am balk As, the High Minister of Earth. The
High Minister, What are you doing?
Speaker 5 (15:46):
I always look after distinguished visitors personally.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Have I done?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Does not know anything?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I doubt that Doctor schecked.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
We will proceed now to the Hall of correction. You
can't do this when the curator.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Procurator will hear nothing until it is too late. The
guided missiles will be fired tonight at twelve God if
they make a false move, keep them coming?
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Guard right color?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Can you scream? They're coming down the street?
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Imperial Patrol.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Oh, it's not used to what I say, scream?
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Go ahead, hold it. They're outsiders.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
You're right, that's the Imperial Patrol.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Oh, earthing?
Speaker 5 (16:44):
What's going on here? Good morning, sir gen Sir Earthy.
You don't understand. I'm Baucus, the Lord High Minister of.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
A Listen Earthy, I don't care who you are.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
What's going on? Yes, sir, we uh, we've arrested these people.
What chart blasphemy? M all right, Thank you, sergeant.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
What do you want to Earth? I'm a galactic citizen.
I demand the right. You may we proceed. Listen, Sergeant,
I have something more to say to you. Why this
No Earth is going to get away with this Earth
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quad Clark.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
But Sergeant, I'm the Lord Minister Reverse tell abality Imperial Barracks.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
I'll move all of you before I give you.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
A shot of the whip. I tell you I'm a
citizen of the Empire. I can prove it. You'll get
into a lot of trouble if you don't believe me.
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I'll admit No Earthy would spit in my face. It
was the only way I could get to the garrison.
I insist on seeing the Officer of the day I
sent for him. You better have a good story. And
which one of you claims he's a citizen of the Empire.
Speaker 7 (18:11):
I am the one from the store.
Speaker 9 (18:14):
You eh, a smart louse that broke my arm?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Well, well, I've got to see the colonel Lieutenant now,
doctor Rabadan. I could hardly do that unless it's important.
It is important. It's life and death for the galaxy.
Come here closer.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Well, oh, it's too bad.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
I've got to save you for the Colonel what he'll
see you at five point thirty his orders you knew
all along.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Sure, come on, Earthy lover, great and serious trouble for Avedan.
The man you're accusing is the High Minister for Earth.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
I know, but I have proof. Well, I can only
speak to the procurator. You've got to contact them.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
There are channels, doctor Raveda.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
We haven't time for channels. I have the details of
the plot from doctor check. You've got to let me
speak to the procurator.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
I've already advised him of your arrest. He's flying in.
You'd better be able to prove what you say. If
you don't, will have to hand you back to the
native authorities and their courts non notoriously savage.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Well, Avidan, I've called you here with his excellency, the
High Minister for Earth.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Well, Lord, this man is behind the whole plot, is he.
There's no time to lose. I've explained to you about
the virus they're shooting off the guided missiles at twelve.
You've got to take action.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Well, your excellency, my lord, if this man has evidence,
you admitted it this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
You have no witness to that I asked doctor Sheck
he worked on the Prus.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
I wouldn't say that Check lied, my lord, but he
is a criminal wanted for evading the sixty and some
men will invent any story to avoid death.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
But deadline is midnight. You've got to bomb those temples
where the launching sites are.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
Perhaps I can explain. According to my information, Doctor Avedan
seems to have succumbed to a certain Earth girl, the
daughter of the unfortunate Doctor Shek.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Is this true, Everden, What has that got to do
with it? There isn't any time you gotta do her,
ever Dan, Are you in love with that girl? Yes? Yes,
Will you listen.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
I don't think we need pursue this any further, Your excellency,
I shall order you released with an apology. No, doctor, Everdan,
I can hardly believe a dejenret who fraternizes with Earth women.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
You come, you put belly? Are you Everden? You're in
trouble enough. I'm in trouble, you fool, you stupid, blind,
bigger than pool. You're just saying the galaxy you're burning
them all. But before I die, I'll have the pleasure
of smashing your friend.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Only faith and love me go Gord go with.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Bell. Are you all right?
Speaker 2 (21:32):
What time is it?
Speaker 4 (21:33):
One? Three passed to deadline. It's all over. Lord Enny
has released the High Minister with an apology.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Doesn't matter. The Empire can wife Earth out. Won't save
any lives. The virus must have been spread here too.
Earthmen are immune but outsiders.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
He ran outside.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Yes, Oh oh, I am we're paying polar the rest
of us paying for centuries of the intolerance. Oh Bell,
Look out there through the bars, the light sky, ten
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points of light. The Empire.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Doomed, well out, doomed.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
I was just thinking. I came to Earth to prove
a theory that man started to hear at once. In
prehistoric times, Earth was the only populated world of the galaxy.
It's funny now it will be that way again. Man
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living only on Earth. Help forget the science, the machine
of the Empire. Don't forget the stars. There will be
only Earth alone in the universe, a pebble.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
In the sky. The children of tomorrow will play with toys,
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But what will those toys be?
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Like?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
An ordinary clerk in an ordinary job finds a terrifying
answer to that question.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Next week, as Dimension X brings you Child's Play The
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Company and cooperation with Straight and Smith, publishers of the
magazine Astounding Science Fiction. Today, Dimansion As has presented Pebble
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in the Sky, dramatized for radio by Ernest Canoy. Featured
in the cast were Santa Stega as Aberdon and Susan
Douglas as Pola. Your host was Norman Rose. Music by
Bert Berman. Dimansion Axe is produced by William Welch and
directed by Edward King. This is NBC, the National Broadcasting
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Company
Adventures in time and space, transcribed in Future Tents. The
National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers
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of Astounding science fiction, bring you Dimension X. The civilization
of the Galaxy, spread across two hundred million worlds. The
black void of space swarmed with the ships of the Empire,
But far off the trade routes, almost forgotten, lay the
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dying planet Earth, a backwater in galactic culture, a place
of eggtile, a pebble.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
In the sky. I landed on Earth on the one
spot which I would have called civilized, a patch along
the desolate heights of the Himalayas that surrounded the palace
of the Imperial Governor of Earth.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
HM. Doctor Belle Everdon of serious Sector. That's a familiar name.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Perhaps you've seen it in the Galactic Archaeological Journal, my Lord,
Dennis me no.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
No, I'm a soldier, not a scientist. It was a
newspaper article. You gave an interview about your expedition to Earth.
I suppose you want to start digging whatever can you
find on this miserable heap of rubble.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
I don't consider Earth a miserable heap, my lord. It's
absolutely unique in the galaxy. You need. It's the only
inhabited planet that is radioactive.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
It's a big pen.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yes, I know, but this planet is inabitant. Biologists have
proven that on a radioactive world, high forms of life
cannot develop high forms.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
The rest of the galaxy hates the earth Men, and
they return it with the interest.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I don't think you understand. I'm not intolerant of anyone,
not even includes Earthmen. My theory is that life on
Earth originated before it was radioactive, as.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
A story like that in the earth Lore of the Ancient.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I know, I've read it.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Oh, I wouldn't admit that here if I were you,
doctor Abden. It's forbidden for outsiders to read it. The
Earthmen get pretty violent about their religion.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Do you mean the imperial police power here is defective?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
It is in cases sacrilege. Well, now, what do you
actually want to prove.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
That man originated in prehistoric times on Earth before space
travel and spread to the other planets.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Why are you seriously suggesting that at one time Earth
was the only inhabited planet and that man descended from Earthman,
there's a chance it might be, so you change your
mind when you see them, doctor, I'm not an anti terrestrial,
but as far as I can see, they're lazy and
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ignorant and generally inferior to us. I'm as liberal as
the next man, but it's a fact. Once an earth man,
always an earthman.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I book a passage to the city of Chica on
an earthline. My fellow passenger seemed dad ary enough, but
I was conscious of being alone among the Earthshak you guy,
I beg your pardon. Could you tell me what's going
on there?
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (03:53):
Sure? You see that couple, they've been married forty years.
It's their anniversary, Yes.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Sir years.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Hey mother, it seems I guessed today just.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
Like hey one, are you folks schedules for the sixty
sixteenth to Newda, Well, I hope you have a nice
day for it. My father reached us sixty in a
pouring rain, kept complaining we were getting soap. So I
told him, what are you complaining about? Dad? I've got to.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Compare this sixty they're talking about. Are they referring to
their sixtieth birthday?
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Sure, that's when they put you away. Euthanasian, it's a custom.
Can't have people living on eats up all the food
that's right.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Isn't it pop. Yes, sir, mother's coming with me when
I reached the sixty.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
She's not due for a couple of months, but she
thinks we might as well go together.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
Yeah, that's the spirit. There's many a man living past
the sixty sneaks stealing the foods from the next generation.
A guy should go when it's this, Yes, but suppose
it's only third. Hey, where are you from?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
I beg your pardon.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Asking all them questions.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yes, who are you spine?
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Where are you from?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I'm belaved from Barrong, serious sector?
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Oh an outsider? Come on?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Can you go forward? Did you hear that? Mother? And
outside that? I burned with indignation, earthman treating me like
an outcast earth man. When we landed, I followed my
intention of observing the human animal subspecies art in its
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native habitat, in this case a large departments. Perhaps I
resembled a floor walker, where a young Earth girl came
up to me and.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Asked the question, pardon me my father. He's about five four.
He wears islands as I think you're.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
On a brown cor I'm afraid I don't member of
saying anyone that.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
They followed me here. I've got to find them.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Are you in trouble? Miss?
Speaker 7 (06:06):
No, No, it's nothing really, I'm sorry about it.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
You attention, attention, please what's taken into the store? Will
kindly leave by the fifth street exit. This store is
being evacuated for radiation fever.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
What's all this about?
Speaker 4 (06:23):
They're after me? It is a really radiation fever too?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Who's after you?
Speaker 4 (06:28):
How am I going to get out of here? Every
chicken registration cards at the door?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Haven't you got one?
Speaker 7 (06:33):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (06:34):
But it has my name.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
I don't know what to do. Come on, but you.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Don't even know me.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I don't know anybody here, but you are an interesting
speech personally. This way your your own car.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Come on, wait a minute, hollo.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Sack, Yes, sir, down right there?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
But care officer? Are you with her? Yes? But you'd
better find out who I am later?
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Stand over there next?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Come on?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
What is it now?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Are you afraid of them? Don't worry about the outside
of mishecks. I'll handle them.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
No, don't cry, don't talk to the middle organs.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Do what they say. Don't even look. We'll see here
they are.
Speaker 9 (07:25):
All now you God, Jesse, I'm Lieutenant Cloudy Imperial Garrison,
who's got the feel if it please, your arms so
close that might be affected, I'll take over you worthy.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
What's your name?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Speak up, squaw, paula st registration papers?
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Here you are, sir?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
All right?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Now pick them up? Go on? Say look care now?
Speaker 7 (07:49):
What did you say?
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Earth?
Speaker 7 (07:51):
If you please?
Speaker 4 (07:52):
This man has nothing to do with me. I never
saw him before.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
What did you say? I don't like the way you
treat women, and i'd advise you to improve your manage.
And where have you been brought up?
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Ear?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
He is less number one? Are you? I am?
Speaker 4 (08:08):
But no.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Uronic whip?
Speaker 4 (08:12):
No? No, sir? Here all right now?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
What happened?
Speaker 4 (08:36):
They gave you full power and an ironic win? Where
are we the military base?
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
You should is that.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Well?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Doctor Avada?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
We seem to have had an unpleasant contret on the
city this afternoon. Unpleasant, I should put it stronger, Colonel,
as a free citizen of the Empire, had every right.
Who resents your legal treatment? I considered the whole incident unfortunate? Doctor?
Don't you think it would be best to forget the
whole matter? I think not. I have an appointment in
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a week with a procurator. Pooh, procurator, what do you
intend doing with mischecht. Uh, what would you suggest, sir?
I had freer immediately and off a hurrier.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Apologies, of course, if the young lady will accept my
sincere regrets, I will give the order for your release immediately.
Speaker 7 (09:44):
I don't understand they just turned us loose. Of course
you must be very important.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
I never heard of the outside as being that polite
to an earth man before.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I'm not an earth man, Paula what. I'm an archaeologist
from the outside.
Speaker 7 (10:04):
Oh, and you stood up to the soldiers because you
knew it were safe all along? And I thought, oh,
I should have known.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Polar does my nothing on Earth would make me any
different from five minutes ago?
Speaker 4 (10:19):
You might have told me, sir, if you don't mind,
don't call me sir.
Speaker 7 (10:25):
Don't be like the rest of them, like the rest
of whom, sir, the rest of the disgusting animals that
live on Earth.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Please, if you'll excuse me, sir, I must leap.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Oh wait, Pola, listen to me, Pola. I had access
to the Garrison files, and to satisfy idle curiosity, my
indexed Polar checked her father was a doctor, me cattle
(10:58):
checked biologist and against his name was a black star
with a notation condemned in absentia charge evading the sixty.
That was why she was afraid. So I sent a
note asking her to meet me in the North Park
after dark.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Paula, over here, sit down. Oh, I want you to understand.
I wouldn't have come.
Speaker 7 (11:29):
Exit.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
I understand. I've seen your father's record.
Speaker 7 (11:35):
You know about it.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
I looked into it, Paula. There doesn't seem to be
much that it can be done about the sixty.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Oh, it's not for my father, it's for the whole galaxy.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Earth is going to revote?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
No, all of it. Oh, don't laugh it all the
galaxy has a volume of several million cubic light years.
It contains two hundred million inhabited planets. Earth is a
population of only twenty million and no resources. What can
Earth do?
Speaker 4 (12:07):
I don't know, doctor, but my father does.
Speaker 7 (12:10):
He's told me that Earth knows away by which it
can wipe out all outside life. And wait, listen, someone
coming park patrol.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Quick.
Speaker 7 (12:23):
Kiss me, don't be stupid, kiss me. They won't suspect anything.
Oh yes, of course, thank god, it's all right.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Now come with me. I'll take you to my father, doctor,
I ever done.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
This is a pleasure. I have read your articles in
the journal. It is hard to get copies. Our neighbors
don't care to trade with Earth. It's part of the
nearly insoluble problem of anti terrestialism. No one seems to
want a solution. Earthmen and outsiders alike.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Oh no, that is not true.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
There is a way of preserving our culture and living
as equals in a larger society. But the Zealots don't
think so. The Zellots, yes, they rule Earth.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Now.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
They are a small minority, but they have power, they
have plans. They planned the revolt. Paula told me, yes,
I say, why aren't your report as to the imperial
garrison the society of Earth. Ancients have guarded me too well. Besides,
they had a hold on me. I am sixty two.
You know the customs of Earth. The sixty years they
(13:48):
allowed me to live on. The price was silence about
the weapon. You agree to this? I wanted to live.
What is this weapon? You are aware of the Earth's
peculiar environment, the radioactivity. Yes, over the years, we Earthmen
have built up certain immunities to radiation. Burns, for one,
(14:09):
but it's a minute difference. I measured an experimental but doctor,
human life is not the only form affected by radiation
and mutation. There is microscopic life, bacteria, viruses. We have
been searching out such a virus, one to which earth
Men have developed a high degree of immunity, but not outsiders.
(14:29):
You mean a particular disease, yes, common fever. It is
a mild children's disease here, like chicken pox or German measles,
But to outsiders it is radiation fever. Symptoms develop in
two hours, lips are so badly affected that the victim
cannot talk, and in two days he dies. They've isolated
(14:53):
as virus, tons of it in crystalline form, and they
plan to let us loosen the galaxy by means of
a missiles. Then frightened refugees. We carry the disease across space.
Billions we die. You're sure about this, you have proof.
I worked on the project. We've got to get to
(15:14):
the procurator. I can catch the evening claimer. Who is it?
I don't know. There should have been an allowed. I've
got to go out.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Is there.
Speaker 8 (15:27):
Don't hands in friendly?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
What's the meaning of this? I demanded that I'm a
galactic citizen. You've got no right to detain me without
legal authority.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
I am an earth Man, but I think you'll find
I am all the authority needed at this moment, Doctor Avadan.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
I am balk As, the High Minister of Earth. The
High Minister, What are you doing?
Speaker 5 (15:46):
I always look after distinguished visitors personally.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Have I done?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Does not know anything?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I doubt that Doctor schecked.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
We will proceed now to the Hall of correction. You
can't do this when the curator.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Procurator will hear nothing until it is too late. The
guided missiles will be fired tonight at twelve God if
they make a false move, keep them coming?
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Guard right color?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Can you scream? They're coming down the street?
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Imperial Patrol.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Oh, it's not used to what I say, scream?
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Go ahead, hold it. They're outsiders.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
You're right, that's the Imperial Patrol.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Oh, earthing?
Speaker 5 (16:44):
What's going on here? Good morning, sir gen Sir Earthy.
You don't understand. I'm Baucus, the Lord High Minister of.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
A Listen Earthy, I don't care who you are.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
What's going on? Yes, sir, we uh, we've arrested these people.
What chart blasphemy? M all right, Thank you, sergeant.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
What do you want to Earth? I'm a galactic citizen.
I demand the right. You may we proceed. Listen, Sergeant,
I have something more to say to you. Why this
No Earth is going to get away with this Earth
(17:24):
quad Clark.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
But Sergeant, I'm the Lord Minister Reverse tell abality Imperial Barracks.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
I'll move all of you before I give you.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
A shot of the whip. I tell you I'm a
citizen of the Empire. I can prove it. You'll get
into a lot of trouble if you don't believe me.
(17:54):
I'll admit No Earthy would spit in my face. It
was the only way I could get to the garrison.
I insist on seeing the Officer of the day I
sent for him. You better have a good story. And
which one of you claims he's a citizen of the Empire.
Speaker 7 (18:11):
I am the one from the store.
Speaker 9 (18:14):
You eh, a smart louse that broke my arm?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Well, well, I've got to see the colonel Lieutenant now,
doctor Rabadan. I could hardly do that unless it's important.
It is important. It's life and death for the galaxy.
Come here closer.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Well, oh, it's too bad.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
I've got to save you for the Colonel what he'll
see you at five point thirty his orders you knew
all along.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Sure, come on, Earthy lover, great and serious trouble for Avedan.
The man you're accusing is the High Minister for Earth.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
I know, but I have proof. Well, I can only
speak to the procurator. You've got to contact them.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
There are channels, doctor Raveda.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
We haven't time for channels. I have the details of
the plot from doctor check. You've got to let me
speak to the procurator.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
I've already advised him of your arrest. He's flying in.
You'd better be able to prove what you say. If
you don't, will have to hand you back to the
native authorities and their courts non notoriously savage.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Well, Avidan, I've called you here with his excellency, the
High Minister for Earth.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Well, Lord, this man is behind the whole plot, is he.
There's no time to lose. I've explained to you about
the virus they're shooting off the guided missiles at twelve.
You've got to take action.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Well, your excellency, my lord, if this man has evidence,
you admitted it this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
You have no witness to that I asked doctor Sheck
he worked on the Prus.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
I wouldn't say that Check lied, my lord, but he
is a criminal wanted for evading the sixty and some
men will invent any story to avoid death.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
But deadline is midnight. You've got to bomb those temples
where the launching sites are.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
Perhaps I can explain. According to my information, Doctor Avedan
seems to have succumbed to a certain Earth girl, the
daughter of the unfortunate Doctor Shek.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Is this true, Everden, What has that got to do
with it? There isn't any time you gotta do her,
ever Dan, Are you in love with that girl? Yes? Yes,
Will you listen.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
I don't think we need pursue this any further, Your excellency,
I shall order you released with an apology. No, doctor, Everdan,
I can hardly believe a dejenret who fraternizes with Earth women.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
You come, you put belly? Are you Everden? You're in
trouble enough. I'm in trouble, you fool, you stupid, blind,
bigger than pool. You're just saying the galaxy you're burning
them all. But before I die, I'll have the pleasure
of smashing your friend.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Only faith and love me go Gord go with.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Bell. Are you all right?
Speaker 2 (21:32):
What time is it?
Speaker 4 (21:33):
One? Three passed to deadline. It's all over. Lord Enny
has released the High Minister with an apology.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Doesn't matter. The Empire can wife Earth out. Won't save
any lives. The virus must have been spread here too.
Earthmen are immune but outsiders.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
He ran outside.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Yes, Oh oh, I am we're paying polar the rest
of us paying for centuries of the intolerance. Oh Bell,
Look out there through the bars, the light sky, ten
(22:20):
points of light. The Empire.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Doomed, well out, doomed.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
I was just thinking. I came to Earth to prove
a theory that man started to hear at once. In
prehistoric times, Earth was the only populated world of the galaxy.
It's funny now it will be that way again. Man
(22:54):
living only on Earth. Help forget the science, the machine
of the Empire. Don't forget the stars. There will be
only Earth alone in the universe, a pebble.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
In the sky. The children of tomorrow will play with toys,
(23:37):
But what will those toys be?
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Like?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
An ordinary clerk in an ordinary job finds a terrifying
answer to that question.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
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Mansion Acts is transcribed each week by the National Broadcasting
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magazine Astounding Science Fiction. Today, Dimansion As has presented Pebble
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in the Sky, dramatized for radio by Ernest Canoy. Featured
in the cast were Santa Stega as Aberdon and Susan
Douglas as Pola. Your host was Norman Rose. Music by
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