Anything You Can Do ...

1963 Doubleday & Company, Inc. Garden City, New York
A shorter version of this work appeared in ANALOG Science Fact—Science Fiction .
All of the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER 62-7710 COPYRIGHT © 1963 BY DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY, INC. COPYRIGHT © 1962 BY THE CONDÉ NAST PUBLICATIONS, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FIRST EDITION
Transcriber's Note:
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and typographical errors have been corrected without note. A table of contents, though not present in the original publication, has been provided below:
For mon cher ami Frère Gascé
a man whom I may truly call ... ... my brother

Like some great silver-pink fish, the ship sang on through the eternal night. There was no impression of swimming; the fish shape had neither fins nor a tail. It was as though it were hovering in wait for a member of some smaller species to swoop suddenly down from nowhere, so that it, in turn, could pounce and kill.
But still it moved and sang.
Only a being who was thoroughly familiar with the type could have told that this particular fish was dying.