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    War of the Scientists
    War of the Scientists
    War of the Scientists
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    War of the Scientists

    By John Russell Fearn

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    Divided into six Zones, Mars became a giant scientific laboratory to advance Earth science. Then without warning furious warfare broke out... 


    Classic pulp science fiction by a British master!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWildside Press
    Release dateAug 16, 2022
    ISBN9781479473779
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      War of the Scientists - John Russell Fearn

      Table of Contents

      WAR OF THE SCIENTISTS, by John Russell Fearn

      COPYRIGHT INFORMATION

      CHAPTER 1

      CHAPTER 2

      CHAPTER 3

      CHAPTER 4

      CHAPTER 5

      CHAPTER 6

      CHAPTER 7

      WAR OF THE SCIENTISTS,

      by John Russell Fearn

      COPYRIGHT INFORMATION

      Copyright © 1940 by John Russell Fearn.

      First published Amazing Stories, April 1940.

      Reprinted with the permission of the Cosmos Literary Agency.

      Published by Wildside Press LLC.

      wildsidepress.com | bcmystery.com

      CHAPTER 1

      Hello, there, Eva! Anything wrong?

      Howard Sykes, young, blond, husky Earth ambassador to Mars, looked up from his desk questioningly.

      I’m not sure, Howard. But I’ve got a funny feeling in my bones that things are distinctly not so hot.

      Eva Wayne was a biologist. She was also twenty-five, had yellow blond hair and the most attractive blue eyes Howard Sykes had ever seen. Even more than that, she was possessed of a sense of intuition which was often uncanny.

      Sykes made a resigned gesture. Trouble in paradise! Well, dammit, just what is wrong?

      Oh, there isn’t anything actually wrong—not yet. But there’s a growing feeling in most of the Zones that their particular Zone must be allowed to dominate all the rest. Each Zone seems to think that its particular function is the most important of the lot!

      So that’s it! Howard Sykes slammed his engineer’s fist on his desk. Might have guessed that something like this would happen. You can’t herd a bunch of geniuses together and expect a harmonious love feast. What more do you know, Eva?

      When the girl was finished with her report, Sykes knocked the dottle out of his pipe, turned to his personal typewriter and began to pound away at an insistent rate.

      Hon. Dudley Baxter, Consultant,

      World State Federation,

      New York City, America.

      Dear Dr. Baxter:—

      It is my unpleasant duty to inform you that after our six months’ experiment on this planet, dissension among the six scientific Zones has definitely broken out.

      When I undertook to rehabilitate this wasted red planet, it was with high hopes that as ambassador to Mars, the six-Zone colony that I would establish here would be sufficient unto itself, and that my presence as ambassador would be simply to supervise the administration of the Zones.

      Now I am informed that our six Zones of scientific activity—physics, astronomy, cosmic engineering, biology, social welfare, and interplanetary eugenics—have each become jealous of the other. It was the World State’s original plan to gather the world’s greatest men and women scientists, fully equip laboratories here for their use, and set them to work on this isolated planet to develop the fruits of their researches—without infringing on each other’s authority.

      Each Zone was to have its own task; no task was to be duplicated. Coöperation between the Zones was to be permitted when necessary. It was thought that in twenty years, the independent researches of the six Zones would be integrated into a new world plan which would forever after insure peace and prosperity for all peoples.

      That meanwhile, voluntarily isolated here on Mars, no one scientific branch could dominate the other, with the inevitable result that one branch of science might take up arms against the other and thus precipitate another World War.

      Therefore, since this dissension has now broken out, I must ask you to hold yourself in readiness for all possible trouble, and to prepare for any eventualities which may occur. I will report to you again as soon as I have definitely isolated the cause of the controversy.

      Howard Sykes,

      Earth Ambassador.

      Finishing, Sykes folded the report in an envelope, summoned a messenger, and gave orders to have his findings space-radioed in secret code to Earth.

      He rose to his feet then, perplexed and with an angry frown.

      Dammit, the thing’s fantastic! he expostulated. "If the chiefs of each Zone start refusing now to get together, we’re worse off than we were before! At least when we started this experiment, nobody was doing any bickering. Come on, Eva! We’re going to get to the bottom of

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