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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: Double Standard - -Author: Alfred Coppel - -Release Date: March 5, 2016 [EBook #51363] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DOUBLE STANDARD *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/cover.jpg" width="362" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="titlepage"> -<h1>DOUBLE STANDARD</h1> - -<p>By ALFRED COPPEL</p> - -<p>Illustrated by MAC LELLAN</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Galaxy Science Fiction February 1952.<br /> -Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that<br /> -the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" width="600" height="469" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p class="ph3"><i>He did not have the qualifications to go<br /> -into space—so he had them manufactured!</i></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>It was after oh-one-hundred when Kane arrived at my apartment. -I checked the hall screen carefully before letting him in, too, -though the hour almost precluded the possibility of any inquisitive -passers-by.</p> - -<p>He didn't say anything at all when he saw me, but his eyes went -a bit wide. That was perfectly natural, after all. The illegal -plasti-cosmetician had done his work better than well. I wasn't the -same person I had been.</p> - -<p>I led Kane into the living room and stood before him, letting him have -a good look at me.</p> - -<p>"Well," I asked, "will it work?"</p> - -<p>Kane lit a cigarette thoughtfully, not taking his eyes off me.</p> - -<p>"Maybe," he said. "Just maybe."</p> - -<p>I thought about the spaceship standing proud and tall under the stars, -ready to go. And I knew that it had to work. It <i>had</i> to.</p> - -<p>Some men dream of money, others of power. All my life I had dreamed -only of lands in the sky. The red sand hills of Mars, moldering in -aged slumber under a cobalt-colored day; the icy moraines of Io and -Callisto, where the yellow methane snow drifted in the faint light -of the Sun; the barren, stark seas of the Moon, where razor-backed -mountains limned themselves against the star fields—</p> - -<p>"I don't know, Kim; you're asking a hell of a lot, you know," Kane said.</p> - -<p>"It'll work," I assured him. "The examination is cursory after the -application has been acted on." I grinned easily under the flesh mask. -"And mine has."</p> - -<p>"You mean Kim Hall's application has," he said.</p> - -<p>I shrugged. "Well?"</p> - -<p>Kane frowned at me and blew smoke into the still air of the room. "The -Kim Hall on the application and you aren't exactly the same person. I -don't have to tell you that."</p> - -<p>"Look," I said. "I called you here tonight to check me over and because -we've been friends for a good long time. This is important to me, Kane. -It isn't just that I <i>want</i> to go. I <i>have</i> to. You can understand -that, maybe."</p> - -<p>"Yes, Kim," he said bitterly. "I can understand. Maybe if I had your -build and mass, I'd be trying the same thing right now. My only -chance was the Eugenics Board and they turned me down cold. Remember? -Sex-linked predilection to carcinoma. Unsuitable for colonial breeding -stock—"</p> - -<p>I felt a wave of pity for Kane then. I was almost sorry I'd called him -over. Within six hours I would be on board the spaceship, while he -would be here. Earthbound for always. Unsuitable for breeding stock in -the controlled colonies of Mars or Io and Callisto.</p> - -<p>I thought about that, too. I knew I wouldn't be able to carry off -my masquerade forever. I wouldn't want to. The stringent physical -examination given on landing would pierce my disguise easily. But -by that time it would be too late. I'd <i>be</i> there, out among the -stars. And no Earthbound spaceship captain would carry my mass back -instead of precious cargo. I'd stay. If they wanted me for a breeder -then—okay. In spite of my slight build and lack of physical strength, -I'd still be where I wanted to be. In the fey lands in the sky....</p> - -<p>"I wish you all the luck in the world, Kim," my friend said. "I really -do. I don't mean to throw cold water on your scheme. You know how few -of <i>us</i> are permitted off-world. Every one who makes it is a—" he -grinned ruefully—"a blow struck for equality." He savored the irony -of it for a moment and then his face grew serious again. "It's just -that the more I think of what you've done, the more convinced I am that -you can't get away with it. Forged applications. Fake fingerprints -and X-rays. And <i>this</i>—" He made a gesture that took in all of my -appearance. Flesh, hair, clothes. Everything.</p> - -<p>"What the hell," I said. "It's good, isn't it?"</p> - -<p>"Very good. In fact, you make me uncomfortable, it's so good. But it's -too damned insane."</p> - -<p>"Insane enough to work," I said. "And it's the only chance. How do you -think I'd stack up with the Eugenics Board? Not a chance. What they -want out there is big muscle boys. Tough breeders. This is the only way -for me."</p> - -<p>"Well," Kane said. "You're big enough now, it seems to me."</p> - -<p>"Had to be. Lots to cover up. Lots to add."</p> - -<p>"And you're all set? Packed and ready?"</p> - -<p>"Yes," I said. "All set."</p> - -<p>"Then I guess this is it." He extended his hand. I took it. "Good -luck, Kim. Always," he said huskily. "I'll hear if you make it. All of -us will. And we'll be cheering and thinking that maybe, before we're -all too old, we can make it, too. And if not, that maybe our sons -will—without having to be prize bulls, either."</p> - -<p>He turned in the doorway and forced a grin.</p> - -<p>"Don't forget to write," he said.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The spacefield was streaked with the glare of floodlights, and the ship -gleamed like a silvery spire against the desert night.</p> - -<p>I joined the line of passengers at the checking desk, my half-kilo of -baggage clutched nervously against my side. My heart was pounding with -a mixture of fear and anticipation, my muscles twitching under the -unaccustomed tension of the plastiflesh sheath that hid me.</p> - -<p>All around me were the smells and sounds and sights of a spaceport, and -above me were the stars, brilliant and close at hand in the dark sky.</p> - -<p>The queue moved swiftly toward the checking desk, where a gray-haired -officer with a seamed face sat.</p> - -<p>The voice of the timekeeper came periodically from the loudspeakers -around the perimeter of the field.</p> - -<p>"<i>Passengers for the Martian Queen, check in at desk five. It is now H -minus forty-seven.</i>"</p> - -<p>I stood now before the officer, tense and afraid. This was critical, -the last check-point before I could actually set foot in the ship.</p> - -<p>"<i>It is now H minus forty-five</i>," the timer's metallic voice said.</p> - -<p>The officer looked up at me, and then at the faked photoprint on my -papers.</p> - -<p>"Kim Hall, age twenty-nine, vocation agri-technician and hydroponics -expert, height 171 centimeters, weight 60 kilos. Right?"</p> - -<p>I nodded soundlessly.</p> - -<p>"Sums check within mass-limits. Physical condition index 3.69. -Fertility index 3.66. Compatibility index 2.99." The officer turned to -a trim-looking assistant. "All check?"</p> - -<p>The uniformed girl nodded.</p> - -<p>I began to breathe again.</p> - -<p>"Next desk, please," the officer said shortly.</p> - -<p>I moved on to the medics at the next stop. A gray-clad nurse checked my -pulse and respiration. She smiled at me.</p> - -<p>"Excited?" she asked. "Don't be." She indicated the section of the -checking station where the breeders were being processed. "You should -see how the bulls take it," she said with a laugh.</p> - -<p>She picked up an electrified stamp. "Now don't worry. This won't hurt -and it won't disfigure you permanently. But the ship's guards won't let -you aboard without it. Government regulations, you know. We cannot load -personal dossiers on the ships and this will tell the officers all they -need to know about you. Weight limitations, you see."</p> - -<p>I almost laughed in her face at that. If there was one thing all Earth -could offer me that I wanted, it was that stamp on my forehead: a -passport to the stars....</p> - -<p>She set the stamp and pressed it against my forehead. I had a momentary -fear about the durability of the flesh mask that covered my face, but -it was unnecessary. The plastiskin took the temporary tattoo the way -real flesh would have.</p> - -<p>I felt the skin and read it in my mind. I knew exactly what it said. -I'd dreamed of it so often and so long all my life. My ticket on the -<i>Martian Queen</i>. My pass to those lands in the sky.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> -<p>CERT SXF HALL, K. RS MART QUEEN SN1775690.</p> -</div> - -<p>I walked across the ramp and into the lift beside the great tapering -hull of the rocket. My heart was singing.</p> - -<p>The timer said: "<i>It is H minus thirty-one</i>."</p> - -<p>And then I stepped through the outer valve, into the <i>Queen</i>. The -air was brisk with the tang of hydrogenol. Space-fuel. The ship was -alive and humming with a thousand relays and timers and whispering -generators, readying herself for space.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>I lay down in the acceleration hammock and listened to the ship.</p> - -<p>This was everything I had wished for all my life. To be a free man -among the stars. It was worth the chances I had taken, worth the lying -and cheating and danger.</p> - -<p>The conquest of space had split humanity in a manner that no one could -have foreseen, though the reasons for the schism were obvious. They -hinged on two factors—mass and durability. Thus it was that some -remained forever Earthbound while others reached for the sky. And -bureaucracy being what it was, the decision as to who stayed and who -went was made along the easy, obvious line of demarcation.</p> - -<p>I and half the human race were on the wrong side of the line.</p> - -<p>From the ship's speakers came the voice of the timer.</p> - -<p>"<i>It is H minus ten. Ready yourselves for the takeoff.</i>"</p> - -<p>I thought of Kane and the men I had known and worked with for half of -my twenty-nine years. They, too, were forbidden the sky. Tragic men, -really, with their need and their dream written in the lines of pain -and yearning on their faces.</p> - -<p>The speaker suddenly snapped:</p> - -<p>"<i>There is an illegal passenger on board! All persons will remain in -their quarters until he is apprehended! Repeat: there is an illegal -passenger on board! Remain in your quarters!</i>"</p> - -<p>My heart seemed to stop beating. Somehow, my deception had been -uncovered. How, it didn't matter, but it had. And the important thing -now was simply to stay on board at all costs. A space ship departure -could not be delayed. The orbit was computed. The blastaway timed to -the millisecond....</p> - -<p>I leaped to the deck and out of my cubicle. A spidery catwalk led -upward, toward the nose of the ship. Below me I could hear the first -sounds of the search.</p> - -<p>I ran up the walk, my footsteps sounding hollowly in the steel shaft. A -bulkhead blocked my progress ahead and I sought the next deck.</p> - -<p>The timer said: "<i>It is H minus six</i>."</p> - -<p>It was a passenger deck. I could see frightened faces peering out of -cubicles as I ran past. Behind me, the pursuit grew louder, nearer.</p> - -<p>I slammed open a bulkhead and found another walk leading upward toward -the astrogation blisters in the topmost point of the <i>Queen</i>.</p> - -<p>Behind me, I caught a glimpse of a ship's officer running, armed with a -stun-pistol. My breath rasped in my throat and the plastiskin sheath on -my body shifted sickeningly.</p> - -<p>"<i>You there! Halt!</i>" The voice was high-pitched and excited. I flung -through another bulkhead hatch and out into the dorsal blister. I -seemed to be suspended between Earth and sky. The stars glittered -through the steelglass of the blister, and the desert lay below, -streaked with searchlights and covered with tiny milling figures. The -warning light on the control bunker turned from amber to red as I -watched, chest heaving.</p> - -<p>"<i>It is H minus three</i>," the timer said. "<i>Rig ship for space.</i>"</p> - -<p>I slammed the hatch shut and spun the wheel lock. I stood filled with -a mixture of triumph and fear. They could never get me out of the -ship in time now—but I would have to face blast away in the blister, -unprotected. A shock that could kill....</p> - -<p>Through the speaker, the captain's talker snapped orders: "<i>Abandon -pursuit! Too late to dump him now. Pick him up after acceleration is -completed.</i>" And then maliciously, knowing that I could hear: "<i>Scrape -him off the deck when we're in space.</i> That <i>kind can't take much</i>."</p> - -<p>I felt a blaze of red fury. <i>That</i> kind. The Earthbound kind! I wanted -to live, then, more than I had ever wanted to live before. To make a -liar out of that sneering, superior voice. To prove that I was as good -as all of them.</p> - -<p>"<i>It is H minus one</i>," said the timer.</p> - -<p>Orders filtered through the speaker.</p> - -<p>"<i>Outer valves closed. Inner valves closed.</i>"</p> - -<p>"<i>Minus thirty seconds. Condition red.</i>"</p> - -<p>"<i>Pressure in the ship. One-third atmosphere.</i>"</p> - -<p>"<i>Twenty seconds.</i>"</p> - -<p>"<i>Ship secure for space.</i>"</p> - -<p>"<i>Ten, nine, eight</i>—"</p> - -<p>I lay prone on the steel deck, braced myself and prayed.</p> - -<p>"<i>Seven, six, five</i>—"</p> - -<p>"<i>Gyros on. Course set.</i>"</p> - -<p>"<i>Four, three, two</i>—"</p> - -<p>The ship trembled. A great light flared beyond the curving transparency -of the blister.</p> - -<p>"<i>Up ship!</i>"</p> - -<p>A hand smashed down on me, crushing me into the deck.</p> - -<p>I thought: <i>I must live. I can't die. I won't die!</i></p> - -<p>I felt the spaceship rising. I felt her reaching for the stars. I was -a part of her. I screamed with pain and exaltation. The hand pressed -harder, choking the breath from me, stripping the plastiskin away in -long, damp strips.</p> - -<p>Darkness flickered before my eyes. I lay helpless and afraid and -transfigured with a joy I had never known before.</p> - -<p>Distorted, half-naked, I clung to life.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>When I opened my eyes, they were all around me. They stood in a -half-circle, trim, uniformed. Their smooth faces and cropped hair -and softly molded bodies looked strange against the functional steel -angularity of the astrogation blister.</p> - -<p>I staggered to my feet, long strips of plastic flesh dangling from me.</p> - -<p>The <i>Queen</i> was in space. I was in space, no longer Earthbound.</p> - -<p>"Yes," I said, "I lived! Look at me!"</p> - -<p>I stripped off the flesh mask, peeled away the red, full lips, the long -transformation.</p> - -<p>"I've done it. Others will do it, too. Not breeders—not brainless -ornaments to a hyper-nymphoid phallus! Just ordinary men. Ordinary men -with a dream. You can't keep the sky for yourselves. It belongs to all -of us."</p> - -<p>I stood with my back to the blazing stars and laughed at them.</p> - -<p>"In the beginning it was right that you should be given priority -over us. For centuries we kept you in subjection and when the Age of -Space came, you found your place. Your stamina, your small stature, -everything about you fitted you to be mistresses of the sky....</p> - -<p>"But it's over. Over and done with. We can all be free—"</p> - -<p>I peeled away the artificial breasts that dangled from my chest.</p> - -<p>I stood swaying drunkenly, defiantly.</p> - -<p>They came to me, then. They took me gently and carried me below, to the -comfort of a white bunk. They soothed my hurts and nursed me. 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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: Double Standard - -Author: Alfred Coppel - -Release Date: March 5, 2016 [EBook #51363] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DOUBLE STANDARD *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - DOUBLE STANDARD - - By ALFRED COPPEL - - Illustrated by MAC LELLAN - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Galaxy Science Fiction February 1952. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - - - - He did not have the qualifications to go - into space--so he had them manufactured! - - -It was after oh-one-hundred when Kane arrived at my apartment. -I checked the hall screen carefully before letting him in, too, -though the hour almost precluded the possibility of any inquisitive -passers-by. - -He didn't say anything at all when he saw me, but his eyes went -a bit wide. That was perfectly natural, after all. The illegal -plasti-cosmetician had done his work better than well. I wasn't the -same person I had been. - -I led Kane into the living room and stood before him, letting him have -a good look at me. - -"Well," I asked, "will it work?" - -Kane lit a cigarette thoughtfully, not taking his eyes off me. - -"Maybe," he said. "Just maybe." - -I thought about the spaceship standing proud and tall under the stars, -ready to go. And I knew that it had to work. It _had_ to. - -Some men dream of money, others of power. All my life I had dreamed -only of lands in the sky. The red sand hills of Mars, moldering in -aged slumber under a cobalt-colored day; the icy moraines of Io and -Callisto, where the yellow methane snow drifted in the faint light -of the Sun; the barren, stark seas of the Moon, where razor-backed -mountains limned themselves against the star fields-- - -"I don't know, Kim; you're asking a hell of a lot, you know," Kane said. - -"It'll work," I assured him. "The examination is cursory after the -application has been acted on." I grinned easily under the flesh mask. -"And mine has." - -"You mean Kim Hall's application has," he said. - -I shrugged. "Well?" - -Kane frowned at me and blew smoke into the still air of the room. "The -Kim Hall on the application and you aren't exactly the same person. I -don't have to tell you that." - -"Look," I said. "I called you here tonight to check me over and because -we've been friends for a good long time. This is important to me, Kane. -It isn't just that I _want_ to go. I _have_ to. You can understand -that, maybe." - -"Yes, Kim," he said bitterly. "I can understand. Maybe if I had your -build and mass, I'd be trying the same thing right now. My only -chance was the Eugenics Board and they turned me down cold. Remember? -Sex-linked predilection to carcinoma. Unsuitable for colonial breeding -stock--" - -I felt a wave of pity for Kane then. I was almost sorry I'd called him -over. Within six hours I would be on board the spaceship, while he -would be here. Earthbound for always. Unsuitable for breeding stock in -the controlled colonies of Mars or Io and Callisto. - -I thought about that, too. I knew I wouldn't be able to carry off -my masquerade forever. I wouldn't want to. The stringent physical -examination given on landing would pierce my disguise easily. But -by that time it would be too late. I'd _be_ there, out among the -stars. And no Earthbound spaceship captain would carry my mass back -instead of precious cargo. I'd stay. If they wanted me for a breeder -then--okay. In spite of my slight build and lack of physical strength, -I'd still be where I wanted to be. In the fey lands in the sky.... - -"I wish you all the luck in the world, Kim," my friend said. "I really -do. I don't mean to throw cold water on your scheme. You know how few -of _us_ are permitted off-world. Every one who makes it is a--" he -grinned ruefully--"a blow struck for equality." He savored the irony -of it for a moment and then his face grew serious again. "It's just -that the more I think of what you've done, the more convinced I am that -you can't get away with it. Forged applications. Fake fingerprints -and X-rays. And _this_--" He made a gesture that took in all of my -appearance. Flesh, hair, clothes. Everything. - -"What the hell," I said. "It's good, isn't it?" - -"Very good. In fact, you make me uncomfortable, it's so good. But it's -too damned insane." - -"Insane enough to work," I said. "And it's the only chance. How do you -think I'd stack up with the Eugenics Board? Not a chance. What they -want out there is big muscle boys. Tough breeders. This is the only way -for me." - -"Well," Kane said. "You're big enough now, it seems to me." - -"Had to be. Lots to cover up. Lots to add." - -"And you're all set? Packed and ready?" - -"Yes," I said. "All set." - -"Then I guess this is it." He extended his hand. I took it. "Good -luck, Kim. Always," he said huskily. "I'll hear if you make it. All of -us will. And we'll be cheering and thinking that maybe, before we're -all too old, we can make it, too. And if not, that maybe our sons -will--without having to be prize bulls, either." - -He turned in the doorway and forced a grin. - -"Don't forget to write," he said. - - * * * * * - -The spacefield was streaked with the glare of floodlights, and the ship -gleamed like a silvery spire against the desert night. - -I joined the line of passengers at the checking desk, my half-kilo of -baggage clutched nervously against my side. My heart was pounding with -a mixture of fear and anticipation, my muscles twitching under the -unaccustomed tension of the plastiflesh sheath that hid me. - -All around me were the smells and sounds and sights of a spaceport, and -above me were the stars, brilliant and close at hand in the dark sky. - -The queue moved swiftly toward the checking desk, where a gray-haired -officer with a seamed face sat. - -The voice of the timekeeper came periodically from the loudspeakers -around the perimeter of the field. - -"_Passengers for the Martian Queen, check in at desk five. It is now H -minus forty-seven._" - -I stood now before the officer, tense and afraid. This was critical, -the last check-point before I could actually set foot in the ship. - -"_It is now H minus forty-five_," the timer's metallic voice said. - -The officer looked up at me, and then at the faked photoprint on my -papers. - -"Kim Hall, age twenty-nine, vocation agri-technician and hydroponics -expert, height 171 centimeters, weight 60 kilos. Right?" - -I nodded soundlessly. - -"Sums check within mass-limits. Physical condition index 3.69. -Fertility index 3.66. Compatibility index 2.99." The officer turned to -a trim-looking assistant. "All check?" - -The uniformed girl nodded. - -I began to breathe again. - -"Next desk, please," the officer said shortly. - -I moved on to the medics at the next stop. A gray-clad nurse checked my -pulse and respiration. She smiled at me. - -"Excited?" she asked. "Don't be." She indicated the section of the -checking station where the breeders were being processed. "You should -see how the bulls take it," she said with a laugh. - -She picked up an electrified stamp. "Now don't worry. This won't hurt -and it won't disfigure you permanently. But the ship's guards won't let -you aboard without it. Government regulations, you know. We cannot load -personal dossiers on the ships and this will tell the officers all they -need to know about you. Weight limitations, you see." - -I almost laughed in her face at that. If there was one thing all Earth -could offer me that I wanted, it was that stamp on my forehead: a -passport to the stars.... - -She set the stamp and pressed it against my forehead. I had a momentary -fear about the durability of the flesh mask that covered my face, but -it was unnecessary. The plastiskin took the temporary tattoo the way -real flesh would have. - -I felt the skin and read it in my mind. I knew exactly what it said. -I'd dreamed of it so often and so long all my life. My ticket on the -_Martian Queen_. My pass to those lands in the sky. - - CERT SXF HALL, K. RS MART QUEEN SN1775690. - -I walked across the ramp and into the lift beside the great tapering -hull of the rocket. My heart was singing. - -The timer said: "_It is H minus thirty-one_." - -And then I stepped through the outer valve, into the _Queen_. The -air was brisk with the tang of hydrogenol. Space-fuel. The ship was -alive and humming with a thousand relays and timers and whispering -generators, readying herself for space. - - * * * * * - -I lay down in the acceleration hammock and listened to the ship. - -This was everything I had wished for all my life. To be a free man -among the stars. It was worth the chances I had taken, worth the lying -and cheating and danger. - -The conquest of space had split humanity in a manner that no one could -have foreseen, though the reasons for the schism were obvious. They -hinged on two factors--mass and durability. Thus it was that some -remained forever Earthbound while others reached for the sky. And -bureaucracy being what it was, the decision as to who stayed and who -went was made along the easy, obvious line of demarcation. - -I and half the human race were on the wrong side of the line. - -From the ship's speakers came the voice of the timer. - -"_It is H minus ten. Ready yourselves for the takeoff._" - -I thought of Kane and the men I had known and worked with for half of -my twenty-nine years. They, too, were forbidden the sky. Tragic men, -really, with their need and their dream written in the lines of pain -and yearning on their faces. - -The speaker suddenly snapped: - -"_There is an illegal passenger on board! All persons will remain in -their quarters until he is apprehended! Repeat: there is an illegal -passenger on board! Remain in your quarters!_" - -My heart seemed to stop beating. Somehow, my deception had been -uncovered. How, it didn't matter, but it had. And the important thing -now was simply to stay on board at all costs. A space ship departure -could not be delayed. The orbit was computed. The blastaway timed to -the millisecond.... - -I leaped to the deck and out of my cubicle. A spidery catwalk led -upward, toward the nose of the ship. Below me I could hear the first -sounds of the search. - -I ran up the walk, my footsteps sounding hollowly in the steel shaft. A -bulkhead blocked my progress ahead and I sought the next deck. - -The timer said: "_It is H minus six_." - -It was a passenger deck. I could see frightened faces peering out of -cubicles as I ran past. Behind me, the pursuit grew louder, nearer. - -I slammed open a bulkhead and found another walk leading upward toward -the astrogation blisters in the topmost point of the _Queen_. - -Behind me, I caught a glimpse of a ship's officer running, armed with a -stun-pistol. My breath rasped in my throat and the plastiskin sheath on -my body shifted sickeningly. - -"_You there! Halt!_" The voice was high-pitched and excited. I flung -through another bulkhead hatch and out into the dorsal blister. I -seemed to be suspended between Earth and sky. The stars glittered -through the steelglass of the blister, and the desert lay below, -streaked with searchlights and covered with tiny milling figures. The -warning light on the control bunker turned from amber to red as I -watched, chest heaving. - -"_It is H minus three_," the timer said. "_Rig ship for space._" - -I slammed the hatch shut and spun the wheel lock. I stood filled with -a mixture of triumph and fear. They could never get me out of the -ship in time now--but I would have to face blast away in the blister, -unprotected. A shock that could kill.... - -Through the speaker, the captain's talker snapped orders: "_Abandon -pursuit! Too late to dump him now. Pick him up after acceleration is -completed._" And then maliciously, knowing that I could hear: "_Scrape -him off the deck when we're in space._ That _kind can't take much_." - -I felt a blaze of red fury. _That_ kind. The Earthbound kind! I wanted -to live, then, more than I had ever wanted to live before. To make a -liar out of that sneering, superior voice. To prove that I was as good -as all of them. - -"_It is H minus one_," said the timer. - -Orders filtered through the speaker. - -"_Outer valves closed. Inner valves closed._" - -"_Minus thirty seconds. Condition red._" - -"_Pressure in the ship. One-third atmosphere._" - -"_Twenty seconds._" - -"_Ship secure for space._" - -"_Ten, nine, eight_--" - -I lay prone on the steel deck, braced myself and prayed. - -"_Seven, six, five_--" - -"_Gyros on. Course set._" - -"_Four, three, two_--" - -The ship trembled. A great light flared beyond the curving transparency -of the blister. - -"_Up ship!_" - -A hand smashed down on me, crushing me into the deck. - -I thought: _I must live. I can't die. I won't die!_ - -I felt the spaceship rising. I felt her reaching for the stars. I was -a part of her. I screamed with pain and exaltation. The hand pressed -harder, choking the breath from me, stripping the plastiskin away in -long, damp strips. - -Darkness flickered before my eyes. I lay helpless and afraid and -transfigured with a joy I had never known before. - -Distorted, half-naked, I clung to life. - - * * * * * - -When I opened my eyes, they were all around me. They stood in a -half-circle, trim, uniformed. Their smooth faces and cropped hair -and softly molded bodies looked strange against the functional steel -angularity of the astrogation blister. - -I staggered to my feet, long strips of plastic flesh dangling from me. - -The _Queen_ was in space. I was in space, no longer Earthbound. - -"Yes," I said, "I lived! Look at me!" - -I stripped off the flesh mask, peeled away the red, full lips, the long -transformation. - -"I've done it. Others will do it, too. Not breeders--not brainless -ornaments to a hyper-nymphoid phallus! Just ordinary men. Ordinary men -with a dream. You can't keep the sky for yourselves. It belongs to all -of us." - -I stood with my back to the blazing stars and laughed at them. - -"In the beginning it was right that you should be given priority -over us. For centuries we kept you in subjection and when the Age of -Space came, you found your place. Your stamina, your small stature, -everything about you fitted you to be mistresses of the sky.... - -"But it's over. Over and done with. We can all be free--" - -I peeled away the artificial breasts that dangled from my chest. - -I stood swaying drunkenly, defiantly. - -They came to me, then. 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