THE UNTOUCHABLE ADOLESCENTS
By ELLIS HART
illustrated by KELLY FREAS
The aliens wouldn't accept help, though their world was
about to explode. They were adolescents. Adolescence is
the time when you aren't smart enough to ask for help....
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
Super-Science Fiction February 1957.
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
The planet Diamore, hung round and gaudy in the view-plates. As colorfully unchanging as it had been every day for the two weeks since the Wallower had plopped out of inverspace near it.
Captain Luther Shreve started violently as the whine of the Stress-Potential banks died away. They had been a constant noisemaker during the past two weeks; their continual dull rhythm had come to seem companionable. Now the keening discordancy was ended, and he knew they had finished estimating the planet in the plates.