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A crew returning from a long underwater patrol discovers something odd in the U.S.S. Ambitious Brill’s battery room: a compact, steel‑clad box replacing several of the ship’s power cells. The senior officers, along with a civilian contractor, see it as a breakthrough that could let the Navy retrofit every vessel in a fraction of the usual time and cost, a secret they guard fiercely as they move from the quiet docks to a high‑security dining club in Manhattan.
There, among other military and government professionals, the captain and his civilian partner discuss the implications of this new technology while navigating the rigid hierarchies and unspoken codes of their elite circle. Their conversation hints at the delicate balance between innovation, bureaucracy, and the hidden agendas that drive defense projects, setting the stage for a tense clash of ambition and duty.
Language
en
Duration
~36 minutes (35K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Louise Hope, Greg Weeks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2007-10-26
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects

1927–1987
A prolific mid-century science fiction and fantasy writer, he became especially well known for the Lord Darcy stories, where detective fiction meets an alternate world shaped by magic. He also wrote heavily for the pulp magazines of the 1950s and 1960s and collaborated with other major SF writers.
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