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A minute of that and we were both smiling. But, Jesus, the man was a mess. ”“Fourteen sounds right,” says Doug Gatlin. ”“The tube-fish,” I said.

”“I remember. Michael nodded and stuffed the atlas into the bag. He did something else. An independent lander, a fat pie-dish shape three metres across, clung to the side of the main body.