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    The Gravity Business
    The Gravity Business
    The Gravity Business
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    The Gravity Business

    By James Gunn

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    This little alien beggar could dictate his own terms, but how could he—and how could anyone find out what those terms might be?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJovian Press
    Release dateJan 22, 2017
    ISBN9781537817477
    The Gravity Business
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    James Gunn

    James Gunn (1923–2020) was an award-winning science fiction author of more than twenty books, including The Listeners and Transformation. He was also the author of dozens of short stories such as "The Immortals" and editor of ten anthologies. 

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      The Gravity Business - James Gunn

      THE GRAVITY BUSINESS

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      James Gunn

      JOVIAN PRESS

      Thank you for reading. If you enjoy this book, please leave a review or connect with the author.

      All rights reserved. Aside from brief quotations for media coverage and reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form without the author’s permission. Thank you for supporting authors and a diverse, creative culture by purchasing this book and complying with copyright laws.

      Copyright © 2017 by James Gunn

      Interior design by Pronoun

      Distribution by Pronoun

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      The Gravity Business

      THE GRAVITY BUSINESS

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      The flivver descended vertically toward the green planet circling the old, orange sun.

      It was a spaceship, but not the kind men had once dreamed about. The flivver was shaped like a crude bullet, blunt at one end of a fat cylinder and tapering abruptly to a point at the other. It had been slapped together out of sheet metal and insulation board, and it sold, fully equipped, for $15,730. It didn’t behave like a spaceship, either.

      As it hurtled down, its speed increased with dramatic swiftness. Then, at the last instant before impact, it stopped. Just like that.

      A moment later, it thumped a last few inches into the ankle-deep grass and knee-high white flowers of the meadow. It was a shock of a jar that made the sheet-metal walls boom like thunder machines. The flivver rocked unsteadily on its flat stern before it decided to stay upright.

      Then all was quiet—outside.

      Inside the big, central cabin, Grampa waved his pircuit irately in the air. Now look what you made me do! Just when I had the blamed thing practically whipped, too!

      Grampa was a white-haired 90-year-old who could still go a fast round or two with a man (or woman) half his age, but he had a habit of lapsing into tantrum when he got annoyed.

      Now, Grampa, Fred soothed, but his face was

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