D. Richard Hughes

1 Quotation from D. Richard Hughes

antigrav n. 1954 D. R. Hughes Breathing Space in Vargo Statten Science Fiction Magazine Jan. 61/2 โ€˜Thereโ€™s a ship gravving up from your colony, Angstol,โ€™ said Tulketh absently, as he gazed dreamily at his own screen. โ€˜Well, I suppose they'll have developed some sort of chemical rockets by now if theyโ€™reโ€”did you say GRAVVING up?โ€™โ€ฆ There below them, the familiar gleaming silver shape of a planetary ship was slowly ascending, with its longitudinal axis horizontal in the time-honoured manner of pre-blasting precautions. โ€˜They have got antigravsโ€™ screeched Largoth, frantically. โ€˜We must not be seen!โ€™