Adventures in the Far Future & Tales of Outer Space — page 206: what you’re looking at

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“BimsgIK erikusic!” the voice warned. “Uirgq-sebusa!” He could not move. He kicked out involuntarily, startled at the resistance, and flew back against the bulkhead. He found he could not push himself away from it again. “Bimsgik erikusic!” the voice repeated. He still could move sidewise along the wall. He pushed himself along carefully until he reached the passage and found it clear. He could not move back inside the compartment, but he could move about freely in the passage. They don’t want me in there, he thought. He waited, just inside the passage, watching. The green dots and red lines and purple lights were steady now. There was a scuffling sound in the passage behind him. lt was McKay and Brown, coming back up. “The hatch was closed when | got there, .captain,? Brown said. “Mac came along and we tried to get it open. There seems to be some sort of controls there, but they don’t answer. | think they’re disabled, maybe on a safety interlock of some kind.” “It might not be a safety interlock,” Goodrich said. “The hatch might be locked, to keep us in.” He told them about the barrier to the flight deck. McKay tried it and was impressed. “This is pretty hot Stuff,” he said thoughtfully. “You know what that is? That’s one of those force screens you read about, only they’re not Supposed to be possible. You ask me, we’ve run _ into something really big here.” “Bigger than we are, anyway,” Goodrich agreed. “Brown, Suppose you get back below to that hatch and keep an eye on it. Mac, take another scout around and see if anybody or anything has come out in the open yet. I'll stay here and watch these instruments, if anything else is going to happen it might show on them.” CORniclooo SS CO