Project Gutenberg 2022-05-06 Public domain in the USA. 198 Smith, George O. (George Oliver) 1911 1981 Smith, George Oliver Long, Wesley Kolliker, William A. 1905 1995 Kolliker, William Augustin QRM-Interplanetary $aUnited States :$bStreet & Smith Publications, Incorporated,$c1942. Venus Equilateral Produced from Astounding Science-Fiction October 1942 Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "QRM-Interplanetary" by George O. Smith is a science fiction novel written in the early 1940s. Set in a future where interplanetary communication is crucial for civilization on different planets, the narrative explores the challenges faced by the characters during the operation of a communications relay station. The work encompasses themes of technological complexity and the interplay between administrative decisions and practical engineering. The story follows Don Channing, an electronics engineer at the Venus Equilateral Relay Station, who grapples with the appointment of Francis Burbank as the new Director. Channing and his colleagues strive to maintain the operation of their station amid Burbank's misguided efforts to cut costs and impose restrictions, which threaten their critical interplanetary communication services. When an air purification system fails due to Burbank's decisions, oxygen levels dangerously drop, leading to a frantic effort by Channing to correct the situation. Ultimately, the novel delves into the themes of teamwork and ingenuity in the face of bureaucratic oversight, culminating in Channing's elevation to Director after Burbank's removal, thus restoring order and morale to the station’s community. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20220219082432smith 1942 US Reading ease score: 76.7 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Science fiction Space stations -- Fiction PS Text Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Novels Category: American Literature 107632 2025-07-27T05:34:12.181890 text/html 84451 2024-10-18T21:39:57 text/html 539790 2025-07-27T05:34:14.629868 application/epub+zip 540137 2025-07-27T05:34:12.709905 application/epub+zip 106515 2025-07-27T05:34:12.426898 application/epub+zip 540020 2025-07-27T05:34:16.296878 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 532499 2025-07-27T05:34:14.383902 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 146264 2022-09-30T16:03:00.315349 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 99120 2025-07-27T05:34:11.956892 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 79213 2024-10-18T21:39:57 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17546 2025-07-27T05:34:16.446855 application/rdf+xml 17007 2025-07-27T05:34:12.535881 image/jpeg 3440 2025-07-27T05:34:12.481869 image/jpeg 504449 2025-07-27T05:34:12.210919 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia