Adventures in the Far Future & Tales of Outer Space — page 88: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

OVERDRIVE Murray Leinster JIM BRENT woke up when the Deli/ah's overdrive field went off ahead of time. A space-liner’s overdrive goes on and stays on. A liner goes from one place to another place, on schedule, and there is no nonsense about it. The Delilah was en route from Khem IV to Loren II, and it had been in overdrive for two weeks and it should have stayed in overdrive for two weeks more. But the drive went off and Brent woke up. Anybody would. His stomach turned over twice, and he was swallowing hard as he struggled dizzily to a sitting position. He hung to the sides of his bunk as the universe went into that dizzy, diminishing spiral which ended in a fraction of a second but felt like hours. Then he opened his eyes. Instantly, he thought of the girl named Kit. A voice said soothingly from the speaker in the ceiling of his cabin: “There is no immediate cause for alarm. Stay calm. The overdrive field has been cut. That is all. There is no need to be alarmed. This is a well-found ship with a thoroughly trained crew, and we are in communication with cur base. There is nooccasion for uneasiness.” Brent heard every word, and a cold chill began at the base of his spine and went up, vertebra by vertebra, to chill the back of his skull, and then went deliberately down the CORniclooo SS CO