... have a weapon like that needleray gun?""When they built their city there, they weren't desert tribesmen," the girl explained. "They were going somewhere, then, and they ... danger, the grim red sands swept away to the low moun-tains in the distance. The air was so clear and so thin that he could evensee the ruins of the city that had been their destination when they ... butted him in the open mouth with the top of hishead, then struck again, savagely, at the stomach. He felt his fist sinkhome in the leathery tissue there. The native grunted and went limp. McLean...