A. Bertram Chandler - Clockwork Lemon

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A Clockwork Lemon

by A. Bertram Chandler

Captain Chandler writes that (as of

August,1981), he is still working on the

Australian novel, but hopes to get it finished

before the end of 1981. Then Commodore

Grimes will be recalled from his Long Service

Leave and signed on for another series of

misadventures.

As the twentieth century lurched towards its close, the Power Crisis

steadily worsened. Fossil fuels were almost as extinct as the living

organisms whose tissues had been converted, millennia ago, into oil

and coal. After a series of disasters, not unconnected with sabotage

and terrorism, the use of nuclear fission as a power source had been

abandoned throughout the world. Nuclear fusion was still just

around the corner. Solar power would be practicable only after the

skies were clear of the dust flung up during the planetwide

outbreak of vulcanism.

All industry was hard hit. Hardest hit of all were the automobile

manufacturers. Desperate and ingenious expedients were tried in

the endeavour to keep wheels on the road. There were the

sailmobiles—but few motorists possessed yachtsmanlike skills.

There were the pedalmobiles—but as nutritional standards had

been steadily declining, few men or women had the strength and

endurance to propel even a lightweight construction of aluminum

and plastic for more than a kilometre.

It was the Japanese who came up with what was hoped to be a

solution to the problem. A very old man, the great grandfather of a

vice president of one of the major Nipponese automobile

manufacturers, remembered a car that had been made in Japan in

the late 1920s. It had been intended for export to what was then

British India. It was to be a runabout in which the mem-sahib could

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