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"I did more research, and realized I almost would rather be a biologist than a writer, because there was incredible stuff going on!"
- Greg Bear
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| Vapor Cloud | ||
| Corrosive gas destroys ships. |
| Above them in the sky the cruiser appeared, sweeping down over the Adharan. From the cruiser a blue^white cloud shot, drilled out by pressure jets directly at the black Adharan ship. The cloud reached the parked freighter. It billowed around it, fusing into it.
The surface of the Adharan hull glowed briefly. It began to fall in, eaten away. Corroded. The Terran cruiser swept past, completing its run. It disappeared into the sky. ' From the Adharan ship figures were emerging, jumping out onto the ground. The figures sprang in all directions, long-legged, leaping wildly around. Most of the figures hopped excitedly up onto their ship, dragging hoses and equipment, working frantically, disappearing into the vapor cloud. "They're spraying." More Adharans appeared, leaping frantically up and down, onto their ship, onto the ground, some this way, others in no particular direction at all. "Like when you step on an ant hill," Barnes murmured. The hull of the Adharan ship was covered with clinging Adharans, spraying desperately, trying to halt the corrosive action of the vapor. |
| Technovelgy from The Cosmic Poachers,
by Philip K. Dick. Published by Imagination in 1953 Additional resources -
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Compare to corrosite gas from The Machine That Thought (1939) by William Callahan.
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