Acid Bath

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Acid Bath

by Bill Garson

EN·~28 minutes·1 chapter

Chapters

1 total

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

Jun 19, 2009

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

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Bill Garson

1917–2000

A mid-century pulp storyteller with a taste for big ideas, he wrote science fiction under the name Vaseleos Garson and later worked as an editor and local historian. His career moved from magazine adventures to books and community writing, giving his work a broad, old-school range.

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