You tell the U-"TY they must land in the United States. The ship breaks out of orbit and descends with frightening speed. Pressed against the contoured wall of the acceleration chamber, youfeel as if you weigh a thousand pounds! Something is very wrong! Why aren't the alarms sounding?

"What's happening?" you ask the computer.

"PROGRAMMING PARADOX. INCONSISTENT TRUTHS."

Through the viewer you can see the Earth rushing up to meet you. The ship can hardly be more than ten miles above the surface!

"Stop!" Flattened by extreme gravity forces, you are hardly able to open your  of Gods..."

Now, even as the computer is attempting to reverse course, violent forces are crushing your body. You are traveling at sixteen miles per second. There isn't time...

Forty minutes later, an aide reports to the President of the United States—''We have reports of the impact of a large meteorite in westem Nebraska. It made a crater a hundred vards wide. The explosion shattered windows twenty miles away.

Fortunately, no one was injured, as far as we know.”

/ENDING Nº29/