THE EXPENDABLES
BY A. E. VAN VOGT
ILLUSTRATED BY FINLAY
The alien was deadly, dangerous
and inhuman—but he was not the
most feared enemy on the ship!
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
If Worlds of Science Fiction September 1963.
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
I
One hundred and nine years after leaving Earth, the spaceship, Hope of Man, went into orbit around Alta III.
The following "morning" Captain Browne informed the shipload of fourth and fifth generation colonists that a manned lifeboat would be dropped to the planet's surface.