jekyll-hyde planet
BY JACK LEWIS
Centifor was a paradise planet,
another Garden of Eden. And Leon
Stubbs was the serpent of temptation....
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
Worlds of If Science Fiction, February 1956.
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
They came in low, decelerating against dense air, while the passengers talked, and laughed, and pressed their faces against the observation ports.
In the ship's lounge, a squawk box crackled ... "Twenty minutes," a mechanical voice said ... "We land on Centauri IV in twenty minutes ... Passengers for Orion, Antares, Cygni, and Polaris, have your transfers ready."
Everyone laughed. The speaker clicked and went dead. And the boy who'd been gripping Claude Marshall's arm looked up.
"What's he mean, Pop? We don't really have to transfer, do we?"