EPUB Reformatted
Ace Double G-606
Here he is speeding down a road in an unfamiliar vehicle in an unfamiliar place. Plus, he doesnt know who he is
Something happened within the past few hours, he thinks, He knows he
is escaping something. But what? He cant control the unfamiliar car and
crashes. The woman who rescues him is not human, although she appears
that way. She realizes he is hurt and takes him in. Slowly he realizes
he is on the planet Kalmed. She is Kalmede Aporia. They examine his
clothes and find an ID. He is Jim Hart, a spaceman who works on the
ships as they travel between planets.
Knowing his name doesnt help. He doesnt feel like Jim Hart. Working
on a spaceship means nothing to him. He can remember his studies about
Kalmed. He can remember things from Earths history. But he cant
remember any of his personal history. He and Aporia go to check out the
car he was driving. While there, some Earthan (in modern science fiction
they would be Terran) policeman come up to talk to her. They are
looking for him because he killed a Kalmede woman and a young Earthan
who had just arrived on the planet. Then he had escaped.
Now he is really confused. He doesnt feel like the kind of person
who could do that. But he certainly has Jim Harts face. Aporia takes
him to town, where he is put in jail. Some of his coworkers come to
visit him. They recognize him, as well, and gossip about the
relationship he had had with the dead Kalmede woman. In the 22nd century
people are not executed for murder in Kalmede if convicted. Instead
they are put in a special mental institution. Thats where Jim next is
sent. Something is wrong there, though. If only he could remember his
life before speeding down that Kalmed road!