Miners in the Sky

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The rock which was also a mine floated in a golden, sunlit mist. There was a brighter part Of the mist and behind that there was a sun, some scores of millions of miles away. There was a dimmer part of the haze, with two or three glittering specks where it was thinnest. They were stars, whose distance could only be expressed in light-years. All the rest of the mist or haze was equally bright, to the right and left, before and behind. The rest was bright and wholly featureless except for the rock. It was seventy feet in its longest dimension, and at its thinnest it measured possibly fifty feet. Its substance, save for a single streak of gray matrix, was crystalline brown stuff broken violently away from something else and larger.

It floated in emptiness. It did not fall, because it was in orbit around a planet hidden by the shining haze. There was nothing to explain its presence here, but men had found it.

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