In The Crack in Space, a repairman discovers that a hole in a faulty Jifi-scuttler leads to a parallel world. Jim Briskin, campaigning to be the first black President of the United States, thinks alter-Earth is the solution to the chronic overpopulation that has seventy million people cryogenically frozen; Tito Cravelli, a shadowy private detective, wants to know why Dr. Lurton Sands is hiding his mistress there; billionaire mutant George Walt wants to make the empty world all his own. But when the other Earth turns out to be inhabited, everything changes.
“You think life is worth living, Dar?”
Source: The Crack in Space (1966), Chapter 14 (p. 195)
Context: Hadley demanded suddenly.
“Who knows. And if you have to ask, there’s something wrong with you.”
“Obviously it’s impossible to do business with you Homo sapiens; you’re adept, polished liars.”
Source: The Crack in Space (1966), Chapter 13 (p. 184)
