Keep Your Shape

by Robert Sheckley

Transcriber's Note:

This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction November 1953. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.

KEEP YOUR SHAPE

By ROBERT SHECKLEY

Illustrated by VIDMER

Only a race as incredibly elastic as the Grom could have a single rule of war:

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id the Pilot slowed the ship almost to a standstill, and peered anxiously at the green planet below.

Even without instruments, there was no mistaking it. Third from its sun, it was the only planet in this system capable of sustaining life. Peacefully it swam beneath its gauze of clouds.