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Blind Lightning [MultiFormat]
eBook by Harlan Ellison
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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description:  Kettridge was performing a routine survey. None of the data about this planet indicated that it contained nine foot tall carnivorous semi-intelligent beings...
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: 1956
Fictionwise Release Date: January 2001
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [99 KB], eReader (PDB) [34 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [21 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [20 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [40 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [91 KB], hiebook (KML) [81 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [49 KB], iSilo (PDB) [17 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [22 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [49 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [34 KB]
Words: 6482
Reading time: 18-25 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud DISABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
 
When Kettridge bent to pick up the scurrying red lizard, the thing that had been waiting ... struck. Thought: this is the prelude to the Time of Fast. In bulk this strangely-formed will equal many cat-litters. It is warm and does not lose the essence. When the Essence-Stealer screams from the heavens, this strangely-formed will be many feastings for me. Safety and assured essence are mine. O boon at last granted! To the Lord of the Heaven I turn all thought! Lad-nar's essence is yours at ending! The thing rose nine feet on powerfully-muscled legs; it had a sheened, glistening fur. It resembled a gorilla and a brahma bull and a kodiak bear and a number of other Terran animals, but it was none of them. The comparison was inaccurate and brief as the moment Kettridge half-turned. He saw one of the thing's huge paws crashing toward him. The brief moment ended and Kettridge lay unconscious. The huge beast bent from the waist and scooped up the man in the form-fitting metallic suit, brushing in annoyance at the belt of tools around the human's waist.
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