 What hit the narrator?
Broadsides like that, distributed wholesale in half a thousand languages, always bring them running. There was a lidless eye at the top of his head and five lidded ones, one above each arm. "Before we begin, I'll need certain information about—" "I am a being of Regulus II," came the grave, booming reply, even before I had picked up the blank. The spherical creature clapped his hands in joy, three hands clapping on one side, two on the other. He was followed by a roly-poly blue-skinned humanoid from Donovan's Planet, four feet high and five hundred pounds heavy. I passed him along to Auchinleck to sign at anything short of top rate. Before then, anyone could visit Earth.
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