![]() Gate number two had a pressure lock rigged over it it carried a big skull & crossbones sign and the symbol for chlorine. It was late afternoon and heavily overcast at east coast North America, but gate one was open to some planetary spot having glaring noonday sun Rod could catch glimpses through it of men dressed in shorts and sun hats and nothing else. Rod did not glance at the statue he looked at the gates. The gate also went to planets that did not have what you would call a balmy climate: They poured out of nowhere, for the floor back of the auxiliary gate was bare, hurried like cattle between the two fences, spilled through gate five and were gone. This pen was packed with humanity moving from the temporary gate toward and through gate five-and onto some planet light-years away. ![]() ![]() ![]() Two high steel fences joined the two gates, forming with them an alley as wide as the gates and as long as the space between, about fifteen meters by seventy-five. This is another of those ubiquitous ideas in sf other stories that include this element are Millennium. ![]()
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