Acid Bath

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Acid Bath

by Bill Garson

EN·~28 minutes·1 chapter

Chapters

1 total
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28:38

Description

A solitary maintenance worker watches over an isolated asteroid, his routine broken when a blue, unknown craft lands nearby and its strange occupants spill onto the rocky surface. With his oxygen supply strained and a pistol at his side, he darts through crags and ravines, using every ounce of his training to stay out of sight and keep the critical outpost alive. The chase is frantic, the environment hostile, and the alien intruders—tall, jointed beings that move with uncanny precision—pose a puzzling menace that forces him to improvise on the fly.

Inside the service station’s dim corridors, he finds a momentary refuge, but the looming ship outside hints at a larger threat beyond his immediate escape. As he watches the steel‑blue figures manipulate their equipment, he realizes the survival of the outpost may hinge on more than just his sprinting legs. The tension builds around the mystery of who sent these visitors and what the “liquid test” they carry could mean for anyone stranded in the void.

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Language

en

Duration

~28 minutes (27K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2009-06-19

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

BG

Bill Garson

1917–2000

A versatile American writer who moved easily between science fiction, local history, and memoir, his work ranged from pulp-magazine adventures to warmly personal books about Midwestern life. He also wrote under the name Vaseleos Garson, a byline familiar to readers of mid-20th-century genre fiction.

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