“Steady Demand for Humanly Edible Dishes”
- affable, stimulating, with a phenomenal grasp
- disappearance of the natives!
- five hovercraft: three light
- humanly edible dishes
- the night before the simulacrum
“Steady demand for humanly edible dishes on Bleylox-9 ultimately caused the disappearance of the natives!”
Nobody was listening to Alex by now. They used to think him affable, stimulating, with a phenomenal grasp and a handshake to match. But he went too far. He had decided he had to rescue the things that go bump in the night before the simulacrum made them all into jerky. So he hired five hovercraft: three light, two so heavy they didn’t hover, and set off furtively into the deserted polar region.