Scrimshaw
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Scrimshaw is credited to Murray Leinster. The opening teaser says that the old man just wanted to get back his memory, and that the methods he used were gently hellish, from the viewpoint of the others. Pop Young is described as the one known man who could stand life on the surface of the Moon's far side, and he occupied the shack on the Big Crack's edge, above the mining colony there.
The shack is said to stand a hundred feet from the Big Crack's edge, and its outside is surface moondust, piled over a tiny dome as insulation against the cold of night and the furnace heat of day. Pop lived alone, and in his spare time worked industriously at recovering some missing portions of his life that Sattell had managed to take away from him. Galleries, tunnels and living-quarters are described, along with air-tight bulkheads for safety and a hydroponic garden to keep the air fresh.
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- Author
- Murray Leinster
- Pages
- 10
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Short Story
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