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==Plot summary==

During Earth's first interstellar war, a civilian transport traveling to Earth is captured by a spaceship piloted by the '''Kloros''', a [[chlorine]]-breathing race of intelligent beings. They place two of their own on board the humans' spaceship. With the human passengers sequesteredesequestered as [[prisoner of war|prisoners of war]], the Kloros head to an unknown destination. The human passengers fall into argument and dispute, some coming to blows, with contradictingcontradictory feelings on what should be done. Opinions range from a violent counteroffensive to a passive acceptance of their situation.

Only Mullen, a shy, mild-mannered, short [[bookkeeper]], is willing to make an attempt to take back control of the ship, which he does by exiting via the C-Chute (normally used for launching corpses for burial in space) and entering the control room via the navigational steam-tubes. He is successful and kills the two Kloro by spraying them with [[oxygen]].

As an unlikely hero, Mullen admits that he was not motivated by bravery, anger, or fear, but by homesickness for Earth.

==Film, TV and theatrical adaptations==