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Kim Rendell had almost forgotten that he was ever a matter-transmitter / technician. But then the matter-transmitter on Terranova ceased to / operate and they called on him.
It happened just like that. One instant the wavering, silvery film / seemed to stretch across the arch in the public square of the principal / but still small settlement on the first planet to be colonized in the / Second Galaxy. The film bulged, and momentarily seemed to form the / outline of a human figure as a totally-reflecting, pulsating cocoon / about a moving object. Then it broke like a bubble-film and a walking / figure stepped unconcernedly out. Instantly the silvery film was formed / again behind it and another shape developed on the film's surface.