Successfully rescued, he puts in for a transfer to Ganesha, another world in the star system to escape Elena in turn having formed a romantic liaison with her, he has since discovered she is an incurable fanatic.
When it arises, he kills Sirat and absconds with Elena, making for the peak that was the goal of the survey, from which he hopes to signal for aid. Faced with the choice of joining his captor's cause or death, Frome pretends to enlist, while actually seeking an opportunity to thwart the madman's grandiose scheme and escape. Another captive is Elena Millán, a female missionary who had also gone missing. He uses an ultrasonic whistle than only the Dzlieri can hear to bolster his authority. Taken to their base, he finds them taking orders from Sirat Mongkut, a Terran previously lost in the area, who is pretending to be a god and has ambitions of uniting the Dzlieri tribes under himself as emperor. The action of the Galton whistle is based on the excitation of vibrations in a hollow cylinder, or resonator, by a stream of air flowing from a ring-shaped slot and impinging upon the sharp edge of the cylinder. Surveyor Adrian Frome, one of a three-member survey team working in the jungles of the planet Vishnu, is captured by the centaur-like Dzlieri natives after his supervisor is killed and the third member deserts. Galton Whistle an acoustic radiator of the jet type in the frequency range from 2-3 to 40-50 kilohertz.
The story has been translated into Portuguese, Dutch, and Italian. Martin's Griffin, 1998), and The Good Stuff ( Science Fiction Book Club, 1999). It also appeared in the anthologies Novelets of Science Fiction ( Belmont Books, 1963, under the original title), The Good Old Stuff ( St. It first appeared in book form under the present title (that preferred by the author) in the collection The Continent Makers and Other Tales of the Viagens, published in hardcover by Twayne Publishers in 1953, and in paperback by Signet Books in 1971. It was first published, as "Ultrasonic God," in the magazine Future Combined with Science Fiction Stories in the issue for July, 1951. It is the first (chronologically) set on the planet Vishnu. Sprague de Camp, a story in his Viagens Interplanetarias series. " The Galton Whistle" is a science fiction short story by American writer L. Illustration of the story in Future Combinedįuture Combined with Science Fiction Stories
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