The Stoker and the Stars

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Stoker and the Stars, by Algirdas Jonas Budrys (AKA John A. Sentry) This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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 Title: The Stoker and the Stars Author: Algirdas Jonas Budrys (AKA John A. Sentry) Illustrator: van Dongen Release Date: October 12, 2007 [EBook #22967] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STOKER AND THE STARS *** Produced by Greg Weeks, Bruce Albrecht, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net THE STOKER AND THE STARS BY JOHN A. SENTRY When you've had your ears pinned back in a bowknot, it's sometimes hard to remember that an intelligent people has no respect for a whipped enemy ... but does for a fairly beaten enemy. Illustrated by van Dongen NOW him? Yes, I know him—knew him. That was twenty years ago. Everybody knows him now. Everybody who passed him on the street knows him. Everybody who went to the same schools, or even to different schools in different towns, knows him now. Ask them. But I knew him. I lived three feet away from him for a month and a half. I shipped with him and called him by his first name. What was he like?