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End as a Hero

Keith Laumer

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .essions had fought against the intruding stimuli—then yielded under the relentless thrust of the alien probe. I watched as the Gool operator took over the motor centers, caused me to crawl through the choking smoke of the devastated control compartment toward the escape hatch. Fire leaped up, blocking the way. I went on, felt ghostly flames whipping at me—and then the hatch was open and I pulled myself through, forcing the broken leg. My blackened hand fumbled at the locking wheel. Then the blast as the lifeboat leaped clear of the disintegrating dreadnought—and the world-ending impact as I fell.

At a level far below the conscious, the embattled pseudo-personality lashed out again—fighting the invader.

"Almost it eluded me then, Effulgent Lord. Link with this lowly one!"

"Impossible! Do you forget all my teachings? Cling, though you expend the last filament of your life-force!"

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Community Reviews

End as a Hero comes near the transition from Golden Age to Modern science fiction, and it shows its confusion on several pages.
The craft is there but the story shows the shift from needing tropes to get things across to using tropes laid down in the early years of the genre to state things without e

where's the rest of the book?