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+Title: Where There's Hope
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+Author: Jerome Bixby
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+Illustrator: Kelly Freas
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+Release Date: December 19, 2009 [EBook #30715]
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+Language: English
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+    _The women had made up their minds, and nothing--repeat,
+    nothing--could change them. But _something_ had to give...._
+
+
+WHERE THERE'S HOPE
+
+By Jerome Bixby
+
+Illustrated by Kelly Freas
+
+
+"If you called me here to tell me to have a child," Mary Pornsen said,
+"you can just forget about it. We girls have made up our minds."
+
+Hugh Farrel, Chief Medical Officer of the Exodus VII, sighed and leaned
+back in his chair. He looked at Mary's husband. "And you, Ralph," he
+said. "How do you feel?"
+
+Ralph Pornsen looked at Mary uncomfortably, started to speak and then
+hesitated.
+
+Hugh Farrel sighed again and closed his eyes. It was that way with all
+the boys. The wives had the whip hand. If the husbands put up an
+argument, they'd simply get turned down flat: no sex at all, children or
+otherwise. The threat, Farrel thought wryly, made the boys softer than
+watered putty. His own wife, Alice, was one of the ringleaders of the
+"no babies" movement, and since he had openly declared warfare on the
+idea, she wouldn't even let him kiss her good-night. (For fear of losing
+her determination, Farrel liked to think.)
+
+He opened his eyes again to look past the Pornsens, out of the curving
+port of his office-lab in the Exodus VII's flank, at the scene outside
+the ship.
+
+At the edge of the clearing he could see Danny Stern and his crew, tiny
+beneath the cavernous sunbeam-shot overhang of giant leaves. Danny was
+standing up at the controls of the 'dozer, waving his arms. His crew was
+struggling to get a log set so he could shove it into place with the
+'dozer. They were repairing a break in the barricade--the place where
+one of New Earth's giant saurians had come stamping and whistling
+through last night to kill three colonists before it could be blasted
+out of existence.
+
+It was difficult. Damned difficult. A brand-new world here, all ready
+to receive the refugees from dying Earth. Or rather, all ready to be
+_made_ ready, which was the task ahead of the Exodus VII's personnel.
+
+An Earth-like world. Green, warm, fertile--and crawling, leaping,
+hooting and snarling with ferocious beasts of every variety. Farrel
+could certainly see the women's point in banding together and refusing
+to produce children. Something inside a woman keeps her from wanting to
+bring life into peril--at least, when the peril seems temporary, and
+security is both remembered and anticipated.
+
+Pornsen said, "I guess I feel just about like Mary does. I--I don't see
+any reason for having a kid until we get this place ironed out and safe
+to live in."
+
+"That's going to take time, Ralph." Farrel clasped his hands in front of
+him and delivered the speech he had delivered so often in the past few
+weeks. "Ten or twelve years before we really get set up here. We've got
+to build from the ground up, you know. We'll have to find and mine our
+metals. Build our machines to build shops to build more machines.
+There'll be resources that we _won't_ find, and we'll have to learn what
+this planet has to offer in their stead. Colonizing New Earth isn't
+simply a matter of landing and throwing together a shining city. I only
+wish it were.
+
+"Six weeks ago we landed. We haven't yet dared to venture more than a
+mile from this spot. We've cut down trees and built the barricade and
+our houses. After protecting ourselves we have to eat. We've planted
+gardens. We've produced test-tube calves and piglets. The calves are
+doing fine, but the piglets are dying one by one. We've got to find out
+why.
+
+"It's going to be a long, long time before we have even a minimum of
+security, much less luxury. Longer than you think.... So much longer
+that waiting until the security arrives before having children is out of
+the question. There are critters out there--" he nodded toward the port
+and the busy clearing beyond--"that we haven't been able to kill. We've
+thrown everything we have at them, and they come back for more. We'll
+have to find out what _will_ kill them--how they differ from those we
+_are_ able to kill. We are six hundred people and a spaceship, Ralph. We
+have techniques. That's _all_. Everything else we've got to dig up out
+of this planet. We'll need people, Mary; we'll need the children. We're
+counting on them. They're vital to the plans we've made."
+
+Mary Pornsen said, "Damn the plans. I won't have one. Not now. You've
+just done a nice job of describing all my reasons. And all the other
+girls feel the same way."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+She looked out the window at the 'dozer and crew. Danny Stern was still
+waving his arms; the log was almost in place. "George and May Wright
+were killed last night. So was Farelli. If George and May had had a
+child, the monster would have trampled it too--it went right through
+their cabin like cardboard. It isn't fair to bring a baby into--"
+
+Farrel said, "Fair, Mary? Maybe it isn't fair _not_ to have one. _Not_
+to bring it into being and give it a chance. Life's always a gamble--"
+
+"_It_ doesn't exist," Mary said. She smiled. "Don't try circumlocution
+on me, Doc. I'm not religious. I don't believe that spermatozoa and an
+ovum, if not allowed to cuddle up together, add up to murder."
+
+"That isn't what I meant--"
+
+"You were getting around to it--which means you've run out of good
+arguments."
+
+"No. I've a few left." Farrel looked at the two stubborn faces: Mary's,
+pleasant and pretty, but set as steel; Ralph's, uncomfortable,
+thoughtful, but mirroring his definite willingness to follow his wife's
+lead.
+
+Farrel cleared his throat. "You know how important it is that this
+colony be established? You know that, don't you? In twenty years or so
+the ships will start arriving. Hundreds of them. Because we sent a
+message back to Earth saying we'd found a habitable planet. Thousands of
+people from Earth, coming here to the new world we're supposed to get
+busy and carve out for them. We were selected for that task--first of
+judging the right planet, then of working it over. Engineers, chemists,
+agronomists, all of us--we're the task force. We've got to do the job.
+We've got to test, plant, breed, re-balance, create. There'll be a lot
+of trial and error. We've got to work out a way of life, so the
+thousands who will follow can be introduced safely and painlessly into
+the--well, into the organism. And we'll need new blood for the jobs
+ahead. We'll need young people--"
+
+Mary said, "A few years one way or the other won't matter much, Doc.
+Five or six years from now this place will be a lot safer. Then we women
+will start producing. But not now."
+
+"It won't work that way," Farrel said. "We're none of us kids any
+longer. I'm fifty-five. Ralph, you're forty-three. I realize that I must
+be getting old to think of you as young. Mary, you're thirty-seven. We
+took a long time getting here. Fourteen years. We left an Earth that's
+dying of radioactive poisoning, and we all got a mild dose of that. The
+radiation we absorbed in space, little as it was, didn't help any. And
+that sun up there--" again he nodded at the port--"isn't any help
+either. Periodically it throws off some pretty damned funny stuff.
+
+"Frankly, we're worried. We don't know whether or not we _can_ have
+children. Or _normal_ children. We've got to find out. If our genes have
+been bollixed up, we've got to find out why and how and get to work on
+it immediately. It may be unpleasant. It may be heart-breaking. But
+those who will come here in twenty years will have absorbed much more of
+Earth's radioactivity than we did, and an equal amount of the space
+stuff, and this sun will be waiting for them.... We'll have to know what
+we can do for them."
+
+"I'm not a walking laboratory, Doc," Mary said.
+
+"I'm afraid you are, Mary. All of you are."
+
+Mary set her lips and stared out the port.
+
+"It's got to be done, Mary."
+
+She didn't answer.
+
+"It's going to be done."
+
+"Choose someone else," she said.
+
+"That's what they all say."
+
+She said, "I guess this is one thing you doctors and psychologists
+didn't figure on, Doc."
+
+"Not at first," Farrel said. "But we've given it some thought."
+
+MacGuire had installed the button convenient to Farrel's right hand,
+just below the level of the desk-top. Farrel pressed it. Ralph and Mary
+Pornsen slumped in their chairs. The door opened, and Doctor John J.
+MacGuire and Ted Harris, the Exodus VII's chief psychologist, came in.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+When it was over, and the after-play had been allowed to run its course,
+Farrel told the Pornsens to go into the next room and shower. They came
+back soon, looking refreshed. Farrel ordered them to get back into their
+clothes. Under the power of the hypnotic drug which their chairs had
+injected into them at the touch of the button, they did so. Then he told
+them to sit down in the chairs again.
+
+MacGuire and Harris had gathered up their equipment, piling it on top of
+the operating table.
+
+MacGuire smiled. "I'll bet that's the best-monitored, most hygienic sex
+act ever committed. I think I've about got the space radiations effect
+licked."
+
+Farrel nodded. "If anything goes wrong, it certainly won't be our fault.
+But let's face it--the chances are a thousand to one that something
+_will_ go wrong. We'll just have to wait. And work." He looked at the
+Pornsens. "They're very much in love, aren't they? And she was receptive
+to the suggestion--beneath it all, she was burning to have a child, just
+like the others."
+
+MacGuire wheeled out the operating table, with its load of serums,
+pressure-hypos and jury-rigged thingamabobs which he was testing on
+alternate couples. Ted Harris stopped at the door a moment. He said, "I
+think the suggestions I planted will turn the trick when they find out
+she's pregnant. They'll come through okay--won't even be too angry."
+
+Farrel sighed. They'd been over it in detail several times, of course,
+but apparently Harris needed the reassurance as much as he did. He said:
+"Sure. Now scram so I can go back into my act."
+
+Harris closed the door. Farrel sat down at his desk and studied the pair
+before him. They looked back contentedly, holding hands, their eyes
+dull.
+
+Farrel said, "How do you feel?"
+
+Ralph Pornsen said, "I feel fine."
+
+Mary Pornsen said, "Oh, I feel _wonderful_!"
+
+Deliberately Farrel pressed another button below his desk-top.
+
+The dull eyes cleared instantly.
+
+"Oh, you've given it some thought, Doc?" Mary said sweetly. "And what
+have you decided?"
+
+"You'll see," Farrel said. "Eventually."
+
+He rose. "That's all for now, kids. I'd like to see you again in one
+month--for a routine check-up."
+
+Mary nodded and got up. "You'll still have to wait, Doc. Why not admit
+you're licked?"
+
+Ralph got up too, and looked puzzled.
+
+"Wow," he said. "I'm tired."
+
+"Perhaps just coming here," Farrel said, "discharged some of the tension
+you've been carrying around."
+
+The Pornsens left.
+
+Farrel brought out some papers from his desk and studied them. Then,
+from the file drawer, he selected the record of Hugh and Alice Farrel.
+Alice would be at the perfect time of her menstrual cycle tomorrow....
+
+Farrel flipped his communicator.
+
+"MacGuire," he said. "Tomorrow it's me."
+
+MacGuire chuckled. Farrel could have kicked him. He put his chin in his
+hands and stared out the port. Danny Stern had the log in place in the
+barricade. The bulldozer was moving on to a new task. His momentary
+doubt stilled, Farrel went back to work.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Twenty-one years later, when the ships from Earth began arriving, the
+log had been replaced by a stone monument erected to the memory of the
+Exodus VII, which had been cut apart for its valuable steel. Around the
+monument was a park, and on three sides of the park was a shining
+town--not really large enough to be called a city--of plastic and stone,
+for New Earth had no iron ore, only zinc and a little copper. This was
+often cause for regret.
+
+Still it was a pretty good world. The monster problem had been licked by
+high-voltage cannon. Now in their third generation since the landing,
+the monsters kept their distance. And things grew--things good to eat.
+
+And even without steel, the graceful, smoothly-functioning town looked
+impressive--quite a thing to have been built by a handful of beings with
+two arms and two legs each.
+
+It hadn't been, entirely. But nobody thought much about that any more.
+Even the newcomers got used to it. Things change.
+
+
+THE END
+
+
+
+
+Transcriber's Note:
+
+    This etext was produced from _If Worlds of Science Fiction_ November
+    1953. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S.
+    copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and
+    typographical errors have been corrected without note.
+
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