Navy Day

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Navy Day is by Harry Harrison. General Wingrove tells the Congress of the United States that the General Staff of the U.S. Army requests Congress to abolish the archaic branch of the armed forces known as the U.S. Navy. Admiral Fitzjames answers that he cannot comprehend the general's attitude and recommends that the general's sanity be investigated.

The account says that, at the Brooke Point Experimental Laboratory, commanded by Colonel Robert A. Dorn, one of the civilian employees discovered the Dorn effect. Mechanics push a Shooting Star onto the water, and it speeds down the Potomac and hurls itself into the air. The battleship Missouri sails up the middle of Constitution Avenue, and the Admiral's voice rings through the room saying that the Mark-1 Debinder temporarily lessens the binding energies that hold molecules of solid matter together, so that solids become liquids.

About the author

Harry Harrison

Harry Harrison (1925-2012) was an American science fiction writer known for fast, witty adventure and sharp satire. A former illustrator and editor, he created the Stainless Steel Rat and Deathworld series and wrote Make Room! Make Room!, the novel behind the film Soylent Green.