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Not the First

by A. E. van Vogt
As Earth’s first starship passes the light-speed barrier, strange things happen to its acceleration—and to the passage of time.
Still, it was odd that the lighting system should have gone on the blink on this first ‘night’ of this first trip of the first spaceship powered by the new, stupendous atomic drive.
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“Not the First,” Astounding, April 1941.
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