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    Vortex Blaster
    Vortex Blaster
    Vortex Blaster
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    Vortex Blaster

    By E. E. "Doc" Smith

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    The Lensman and the observer helped Storm into his heavily padded armor. Their movements were automatic—the ointment, the devices— INTRODUCING "Storm" Cloud, who, through tragedy, is destined to become the most noted figure in the galaxy—the Vortex Blaster
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAmazing Sci-Fi Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 2016
    ISBN9781518356780

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      Vortex Blaster - E. E. "Doc" Smith

      VORTEX BLASTER

      E.E. , Doc, and Smith

      AMAZING SCI-FI CLASSICS

      Thank you for reading. If you enjoy this book, please leave a review.

      All rights reserved. Aside from brief quotations for media coverage and reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form without the author’s permission. Thank you for supporting authors and a diverse, creative culture by purchasing this book and complying with copyright laws.

      Copyright © 2016 by E.E. , Doc, and Smith

      Published by Amazing Sci-Fi Classics

      Interior design by Pronoun

      Distribution by Pronoun

      ISBN: 9781518356780

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Vortex Blaster

      VORTEX BLASTER

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      Safety devices that do not protect.

      The unsinkable ships that, before the days of Bergenholm and of atomic and cosmic energy, sank into the waters of the earth.

      More particularly, safety devices which, while protecting against one agent of destruction, attract magnet-like another and worse. Such as the armored cable within the walls of a wooden house. It protects the electrical conductors within against accidental external shorts; but, inadequately grounded as it must of necessity be, it may attract and upon occasion has attracted the stupendous force of lightning. Then, fused, volatilized, flaming incandescent throughout the length, breadth, and height of a dwelling, that dwelling’s existence thereafter is to be measured in minutes.

      Specifically, four lightning rods. The lightning rods protecting the chromium, glass, and plastic home of Neal Cloud. Those rods were adequately grounded, grounded with copper-silver cables the bigness of a strong man’s arm; for Neal Cloud, atomic physicist, knew his lightning and he was taking no chances whatever with the safety of his lovely wife and their three wonderful kids.

      He did not know, he did not even suspect, that under certain conditions of atmospheric potential and of ground-magnetic stress his perfectly designed lightning-rod system would become a super-powerful magnet for flying vortices of atomic disintegration.

      And now Neal Cloud, atomic physicist, sat at his desk in a strained, dull apathy. His face was a yellowish-gray white, his tendoned hands gripped rigidly the arms of his chair. His eyes, hard and lifeless, stared unseeingly past the small, three-dimensional block portrait of all that had made life worth living.

      For his guardian against lightning had been a vortex-magnet at the moment when a luckless wight had attempted to abate the nuisance of a loose

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