Astounding Science Fiction (British Edition) — page 4: what you’re looking at

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Trlé GULF BETWEEN By TOM GODWIN There was a man who hated men because they would not obey him like robots. Then he got a robot... lustrated y Kelly Freas He was dying ! The fear flooded over him again, dark and smothering and made worse by his inability to move. His doctor was stand- ing near him, watching over him with dark, patient eyes, knowing that he was dying. When a man is dying, there should be comfort in the presence of a doctor who knows how to save his life. His doctor knew he was dying and had already done the thing that should have saved him from death; the doctor had informed the pilot of his condition by means of the letters on the pilot’s com- munications panel. They had leered at him for an endless eternity: OBSER- VER DYING OF EFFECTS OF FULL ACCELERATION. IMMEDI- ATE REDUCTION OF ACCELE- RATION IS SUGGESTED. His doctor watched him die with dark, brooding eyes and suggested to the pilot that the acceleration be reduced. But the pilot’s seat was empty. He was the pilot, and the doctor knew LES IEUTENANT KNIGHT flattened himself behind the outcropping on the windswept ridge and raised his head to stare across the small basin at Hill 23, looming red-scarred and forbidding in the Korean rain; de- ceptively, ominously quiet, as though daring Company C to resume its vain battering at it. Comichdooks.co im