Spaceman on a Spree

by Mack Reynolds

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SPACEMAN ON A SPREE

BY MACK REYNOLDS

Illustrated by Nodel

[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
Worlds of Tomorrow June 1963
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]

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What's more important—Man's conquest
of space, or one spaceman's life?

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I

They gave him a gold watch. It was meant to be symbolical, of course. In the old tradition. It was in the way of an antique, being one of the timepieces made generations past in the Alpine area of Eur-Asia. Its quaintness lay in the fact that it was wound, not electronically by power-radio, but by the actual physical movements of the bearer, a free swinging rotor keeping the mainspring at a constant tension.