Explore "Woman from Another Planet" by Frank Belknap Long on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
The landscape beneath the Martian mother ship was changing rapidly now, but no Martian eyes watched a lake sweep into view and the dwarfed evergreens surrender their sovereignty to a forest of tall, straight pines, their boles dark against the pale, blue-gray sky. A speedboat came suddenly into view from behind a mile-wide island densely overgrown with scrub oak and hemlocks, and headed northward, throwing up a curtain of silvery spray that slowly blended with the haze that hung over the southern part of the lake.
The observation compartment was deserted and only the tele-communication screen opposite the view-glass glimmered with light and movement.