A Wind Is Rising

This is Nightline. You're open door to people and places, and this is World Road Keep. Nightline invites you to listen in on NBC's award-winning science fiction series X-minus 1. Now escape to a world of the future.

Countdown for Blastoff. X-minus 5, 4, 3, 2, X-minus 1, fire. From the far horizons of the unknown come tales of new dimensions in time and space. These are stories of the future, adventures in which you'll live in a million could be

years on a thousand maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Galaxy's Science Fiction Magazine presents HEC, HEC, HEC, HEC, HEC. Mine is. Mine is. Mine is. Mine is. One, One, One. Tonight, a wind is rising by Finn O'D Boys.

But first, here it is. Our x minus one, And tonight's story, a wind is rising. I've only been on Vanilla accurellate for eight months.

Not long for a seasoned advanced exploration man like myself, but long enough to know one thing. Before long I was going to kill me a native Star there. Maybe I was a little edgy. When you have to live inside a steel and concrete capsule, just listening to that fantastic wind howl, 24 hours a day,

it begins to get you. Anyway, it started with Smannock. He was our Carillon radio man, came up to my quarters to get me. Carillon's are a dirty brown and looks something like big spiders with five hairy tentacles.

Yeah? Smannock Earthman. Well? Other Earthman. Tell Smirnich, tell this gentleman come pretty quick. Okay, you got some sugar. What for? Smirnich, do something famous. Get some sugar. No, I don't have sugar, no, beat it.