Outcasts of Space
Outcasts of SpaceLike a silver arrow, the “Starshine” continued to bore on through a weird, synthetic universe, two hundred times faster than light. In the spaceship Kim worked angrily, making desperate attempts to devise a method of nullifying the non-individualized fighting-beams with which—now that he was in free space in a spaceship—any attempt to land upon an inhabited planet might be frustrated.
In the end he constructed two small wristlets, one for himself and one for Dona to wear. If tuned waves of the Circuit struck them, the wristlets might nullify them. But if the fighting-beams struck, that would be another story.
Twelve days after turning on the overdrive, which by changing the constants of space about the spaceship, made two hundred light-speeds possible,
