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The Seventh Order
The Seventh Order
The Seventh Order
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    The Seventh Order - Ed Emshwiller

    The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Seventh Order, by Gerald Allan Sohl

    This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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    Title: The Seventh Order

    Author: Gerald Allan Sohl

    Illustrator: EMSH

    Release Date: May 11, 2010 [EBook #32327]

    Language: English

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    THE 7TH ORDER

    By JERRY SOHL

    Illustrated by EMSH

    [Transcriber Note: This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction March 1952. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]


    History is filled with invincible conquerors. This one from space was genuinely omnipotent, but that never keeps humanity from resisting!

    The silver needle moved with fantastic speed, slowed when it neared the air shell around Earth, then glided noiselessly through the atmosphere. It gently settled to the ground near a wood and remained silent and still for a long time, a lifeless, cylindrical, streamlined silver object eight feet long and three feet in diameter.

    Eventually the cap end opened and a creature of bright blue metal slid from its interior and stood upright. The figure was that of a man, except that it was not human. He stood in the pasture next to the wood, looking around. Once the sound of a bird made him turn his shiny blue head toward the wood. His eyes began glowing.

    An identical sound came from his mouth, an unchangeable orifice in his face below his nose. He tuned in the thoughts of the bird, but his mind encountered little except an awareness of a life of low order.

    The humanoid bent to the ship, withdrew a small metal box, carried it to a catalpa tree at the edge of the wood and, after an adjustment of several levers and knobs, dug a hole and buried it. He contemplated it for a moment, then turned and walked toward a road.

    He was halfway to the road when his ship burst into a dazzling white light. When it was over, all that was left was a white powder that was already beginning to be dispersed by a slight breeze.

    The humanoid did not bother to look back.


    Brentwood would have been just like any other average community of 10,000 in northern Illinois had it not been for Presser College, which was one of the country's finest small institutions of learning.

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