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Wilson [ V Vito ](https://publica.now/creators/vito) Follow $1.99 [ Sign in to buy ](https://publica.now/access?redirect=%2Fcheckout%2Fout-around-rigel) Share Link copied Format epub Published May 03, 2026 Rating No reviews yet ![Out Around Rigel](https://fls-a13cb2d7-1b3e-4883-a0bd-297afd110a11.367be3a2035528943240074d0096e0cd.r2.cloudflarestorage.com/works/01kqnm715rttyvnt1jb1p97wes/cover.png?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=d29ce3bb571c165c97a702f29f7aee93%2F20260905%2Fauto%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20260905T111806Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-Signature=208c5be17ee752c3ccfe3bfb868a573ae43bf720d876d7078d95ca05511452cc) ## About this work Out Around Rigel by Robert H. Wilson — a public-domain edition published by publica.now. Sample ## Take a look inside Transcriber's notes are indicated in the text by \[TN-#\]. I caught his hand and pulled him to safety. Out Around Rigel By Robert H. Wilson An astounding chronicle of two Lunarians' conquest of time and interstellar space. The sun had dropped behind the Grimaldi plateau, although for a day twilight would linger over the Oceanus Procellarum. The sky was a hazy blue, and out over the deeper tinted waves the full Earth swung. All the long half-month it had hung there above the horizon, its light dimmed by the sunshine, growing from a thin crescent to its full disk three times as broad as that of the sun at setting. Now in the dusk it was a great silver lamp hanging over Nardos, the Beautiful, the City Built on the Water. The light glimmered over the tall white towers, over the white ten-mile-long adamantine bridge running from Nardos to the shore, and lit up the beach where we were standing, with a brightness that seemed almost that of day. "Once more, Garth," I said. "I'll get that trick yet." The skin of my bare chest still smarted from the blow of his wooden fencing sword. If it had been the real two-handed Lunarian dueling sword, with its terrible mass behind a curved razor edge, the blow would have produced a cut deep into the bone. It was always the same, ever since Garth and I had fenced as boys with crooked laths. Back to back, we could beat the whole school, but I never had a chance against him. Perhaps one time in ten— "On guard!" The silvered swords whirled in the Earth-light. I nicked him on one wrist, and had to duck to escape his wild swing at my head. The wooden blades were now locked by the hilts… [ Sign in to buy ](https://publica.now/access?redirect=%2Fcheckout%2Fout-around-rigel) The sample continues in the full work. [ #classic ](/search?query=classic) [ #public-domain ](/search?query=public-domain) [ #library ](/search?query=library) ## Reviews No reviews yet. Be the first to share your thoughts. [Sign in to leave a review](https://publica.now/access?redirect=%2Fcreators%2Fvito%2Fworks%2Fout-around-rigel) No reviews yet. 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