Project Gutenberg 2012-12-05 Public domain in the USA. 76 Nourse, Alan Edward 1928 1992 Edwards, Al Nourse, Alan E. (Alan Edward) Consignment Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Consignment" by Alan Edward Nourse is a science fiction novel written in the early 1950s. The book explores themes of revenge, ambition, and the consequences of technological advancements in a future setting, depicting a world where crime and transportation are intricately linked through a vast system of automated roads. The story centers around a convict's struggle to reclaim his life and enact vengeance against a former partner who wronged him. The narrative follows John Krenner, a man who escapes from prison after serving 27 years for the murder of his partner's wife. Armed and determined, he navigates the complexities of an advanced transportation system known as the Rolling Roads as he seeks to locate his former partner, Jerome Markson. Krenner's journey is marked by brutal confrontations and strategic manipulation as he attempts to elude the authorities and fulfill his desire for revenge. However, his plan comes to a sudden and fiery end when he inadvertently becomes part of an automated coal delivery system, leading him to a fate he could never have anticipated: a plunge into Markson's own steel foundry. The story serves as a thrilling exploration of the intersection of technology, vengeance, and fate. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/41565/41565-h/images/cover.jpg en Science fiction Short stories United States -- Fiction Escaped prisoners -- Fiction PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 51109 51118 2024-09-17T12:10:52.168081 2023-09-18T07:07:25.426584 text/html text/html 47456 2012-12-05T09:27:40 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 216768 2012-12-05T09:27:40 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 228817 2024-09-17T12:10:54.173074 application/epub+zip 227859 2024-09-17T12:10:52.679084 application/epub+zip 75225 2024-09-17T12:10:52.413078 application/epub+zip 262146 2024-09-17T12:10:55.458053 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 254913 2024-09-17T12:10:53.910065 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 102637 2022-09-19T04:43:11.244625 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 43412 43317 2024-09-17T12:10:52.035061 2023-09-18T07:07:25.312569 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 43234 2012-12-05T09:27:40 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16813 2012-12-05T09:27:40 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19224 2024-09-17T12:10:55.606046 application/rdf+xml 23313 2024-09-17T12:10:52.483062 image/jpeg 4211 2024-09-17T12:10:52.447199 image/jpeg 217571 2024-09-17T12:10:52.180065 application/octet-stream application/zip 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 en.wikipedia