Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog Project Gutenberg 2008-04-16 Public domain in the USA. 88 Yaco, Murray F. Grayam No Moving Parts Reading ease score: 76.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Greg Weeks, Andrew Wainwright and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "No Moving Parts" by Murray F. Yaco is a science fiction story written in the mid-20th century. The narrative revolves around the themes of technology and the complexities that arise from its "perfect" design, particularly as experienced by the characters involved in a peculiar predicament aboard a malfunctioning spaceship. The story showcases the challenges associated with a technology that has become so advanced that even the simplest moving parts have become a mystery. The plot centers on Hansen, an attendant at a remote communications relay station who finds himself managing an emergency involving the spaceship Euclid Queen. The ship, carrying a vital passenger, His Exalted Excellency R'thagna Bar, is unable to open its door due to a malfunction in a complex mechanism. Throughout the story, Hansen interacts with various characters, including Captain Fromer, the ship's navigator, and engineers Bullard and Quemos, who struggle to fix the door. Enter Candle, a resourceful "Gypsy" trouble-shooter, who ultimately devises a method to solve the situation using a battering ram of ice, exposing the flaws and absurdities in the over-engineered systems of their time. The story humorously critiques the reliance on complex technology and the unpredictability of seemingly perfect machines. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction Short stories Space ships -- Fiction PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 68852 68855 2024-10-11T03:50:39.375209 2023-09-11T07:25:43.345808 text/html text/html 68779 2021-01-03T11:48:39 text/html; charset=us-ascii 174867 2021-01-03T11:48:39 text/html; charset=us-ascii application/zip 269231 2024-10-11T03:50:45.360213 application/epub+zip 268194 2024-10-11T03:50:42.432209 application/epub+zip 76361 2024-10-11T03:50:41.169196 application/epub+zip 376896 2024-10-11T03:50:47.320201 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 370433 2024-10-11T03:50:44.399218 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 181684 2022-09-11T13:27:57.198295 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 58354 58252 2024-10-11T03:50:39.033197 2023-09-11T07:25:43.106814 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 58205 2021-01-03T11:48:39 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 22510 2021-01-03T11:48:39 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20120 2024-10-11T03:50:47.834155 application/rdf+xml 14870 2024-10-11T03:50:41.718240 image/jpeg 3778 2024-10-11T03:50:41.442179 image/jpeg 251675 2024-10-11T03:50:39.388218 application/octet-stream application/zip