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The Eel - Miriam Allen DeFord
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Title: The Eel
Author: Miriam Allen DeFord
Illustrator: Dillon
Release Date: April 14, 2010 [EBook #31981]
Language: English
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This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction April 1958. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.
the eel
BY MIRIAM ALLEN DeFORD
Illustrated by DILLON
The punishment had to fit more than just the crime—it had to suit every world in the Galaxy!
e was intimately and unfavorably known everywhere in the Galaxy, but with special virulence on eight planets in three different solar systems. He was eagerly sought on each; they all wanted to try him and punish him—in each case, by their own laws and customs. This had been going on for 26 terrestrial years, which means from minus ten to plus 280 in some of the others. The only place that didn't want him was Earth, his native planet, where he was too smart to operate—but, of course, the Galactic Police were looking for him there too, to deliver him to the authorities of the other planets in accordance with the Interplanetary Constitution.
For all of those years, The Eel (which was his Earth monicker; elsewhere, he was known by names indicating equally squirmy and slimy life-forms) had been gayly going his way, known under