The Currents of Space

Classic SF adventure in the Foundation universe by Isaac Asimov. Only one man can warn the planet Florina that it is doomed by an astronomical catastrophe but he has amnesia and is a slave.

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Title of ebook: The Currents of Space
ISBN: 9781429968461
parent-ISBN: 9780765319166
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Pages: 240
Published: 04-2009
Released online for download: 04-27-2009
Author of eBook: Asimov, Isaac

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The Currents of Space

Chapter One

The Foundling

Rik put down his feeder and jumped to his feet. He was trembling so hard he had to lean against the bare milk- white wall.

He shouted, "I remember!"

They looked at him and the gritty mumble of men at lunch died somewhat. Eyes met his out of faces indifferently clean and indifferently shaven, glistening and white in the imperfect wall illumination. The eyes reflected no great interest, merely the reflex attention enforced by any sudden and unexpected cry.

Rik cried again, "I remember my job. I had a job!"

Someone called, "Shoddop!"and someone else yelled, "Siddown!"

The faces turned away, the mumble rose again. Rik stared blankly along the table. He heard the remark, "Crazy Rik,"and a shrug of shoulders. He saw a finger spiral at a man’s temple. It all meant nothing to him. None of it reached his mind.

Slowly he sat down. Again he clutched his feeder, a spoon-like affair, with ... read full excerpt from: The Currents of Space ebook

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