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Latest Release: Chapter 1 : The Golden Age of Science Fiction.An Anthology of 50 Short Stories.by Various.VOL I.A ST
The Golden Age of Science Fiction.An Anthology of 50 Short Stories.by Various.VOL I.A STRANGE Ma.n.u.sCRIPT FOUND IN A COPPER CYLINDER.
By James De Mille CHAPTER I.THE FINDING OF THE COPPER CYLINDER.It occurred as far back as February 15, 1850. It happene
- 655 d.i.c.k sat down in amazement, a smile slowly spreading over his face. Dolores was happy--wherever they were. The room was all that mattered. But he couldn't understand why Morquil had ga.s.sed them, and put them on board unconscious. He would have enjoy
- 654 "Come in, Mr. Barrow. I'm glad to see you. I was surprised to hear of your use of the money, but was pleased rather than disappointed. You did well."For a moment d.i.c.k was taken back, then he smiled sheepishly. "I don't know just what to say, Sir,
- 653 It was decided that Burke must land on the plateau above the cliff, and here the material for the fire was collected. There was little enough of it and it was hard work carrying the oil up the steep trail. At times Bennie was almost in despair."It won't
- 652 "He only goes ten mile maybe," announced Marc confidently. "Un pet.i.t bout de chemin. We get there to-night."On they struggled beside the Rail, but now hope ran high. Bennie sang and whistled, unmindful of the mosquitoes and black flies that renewed
- 651 Thus started the Hooker Expedition, which discovered the Flying Ring and made the famous report to the Smithsonian Inst.i.tution after the disarmament of the nations. But could the nations have seen the expedition as it emerged from its boarding-house tha
- 650 "Zircorundum," said Bennie, groping around in a drawer of his work table. "It's an absolute nonconductor of heat. Look here, just stick your finger in that." He held out to Thornton what appeared to be a small test tube of black gla.s.s. Thornton, wi
- 649 The professor paused and wiped his gla.s.ses. With a roar a Taube slid off the landing stage, shot over toward the hangars, and soared upward."Is that all?" inquired the general, turning again to the chart."That is all, your Excellency," answered Von
- 648 "Satisfied?" growled Von Koenitz. "I have seen plenty of snowstorms in August. They have them daily in the Alps. You ask me if I am satisfied. Of what? That earthquakes, the aurora borealis, electrical disturbances, snowstorms exist--yes. That a myster
- 647 "All right," whispered Williams, "I've got 'em.""Tell Paris that our clocks are all out five minutes according to the meridian."Williams worked the key rapidly, and then listened."The Eiffel Tower says that their chronometers also appear to be ou
- 646 As they approached the crushed forms, Connor slowed down a little. "They're dressed too well--what's left of them. They're paraNormals!"A minute later they were at the large apartment block where Crane lived. They entered the building through a lobby
- 645 "Yes," he said in that programmed tone which indicated endless grat.i.tude for the privilege of half-being."That ends my sad day," Connor sighed. "I'm taking a blackout pill and intend to stay that way for the next fourteen hours."The next morning
- 644 "Not at all. I should desire nothing more than to see the worlds of other suns, other places in the far paths of s.p.a.ce. Yet....""Yet what? Have you a wife here, children?""No, not that. But I have possessions it cost me many years of effort to acq
- 643 I inserted the clip, and lay there with my fore-sight following the disk s.h.i.+p in its steady circling flight. Just where would an armor-piercing steel bullet do the most harm? I shot the clip out at the great round body of the thing, trying to guess wh
- 642 "There will be a s.h.i.+p waiting to pick her up as soon as she is out of sight of the Jivros who will accompany us. I have sent it already. It waits in the hills by the barrier. With you along, you can contact the remaining Zervs. They will augment your
- 641 My eyes drifted casually to the blank, cold stare of the old Jivro, to the mournful liquid eyes of the Schree, on to the apparently disinterested gaze of the queen's friend. The only ominous feeling I got was from the eyes of the aged insect-man, and my
- 640 These were the mole-men, the crab-men, the creatures built for specific purposes as tools are built. Each thing bore on his back a bale of goods, or a bar of metal, a burden sizeable enough for two ordinary men. They were strong, and they were silent and
- 639 "Because I signed to them to let you stay. You did not see, whatever-your-name-is....""Call me Carlin Keele, Carl for short. What is your name, and what is your race, and why are you so different from people as I know them?""My name is Nokomee, as I
- 638 "The Golden G.o.ddess whose symbol led him here. He does not know what it is. He stole it by murdering one of our own messengers for it. He did not know at all; he only heard the tales that some relate about her. They are false tales.""Did he tell you
- 637 He reached out and gently touched her cheek. "Can't you see I want to stay?" he pleaded."Then why? Why?" She was crying now."I ... I just can't. It's no good." He stood up.She reached out and caught his hand. "Then take me with you. I've heard
- 636 "Right on schedule. We'll be ready for the final test by the end of the week.""By the way," asked Jenner, speculatively, "how come you ordered the s.h.i.+p stocked and provisioned, for the test?""Why ... why I think she should be tested under exac
- 635 To the east he could see the lights of Fort Mudge where the railroad cut through on its way to Jacksonville. He had planned to ride the freight into Jacksonville but by now they were stopping every train and searching along every foot of the railroad righ
- 634 CHAPTER XXIX.THE REVOLT OF THE YOUNG.Amid all the strife and clamour of the next few days one thing stands out now in my mind with sinister radiance. It is that peculiar form of lawlessness which broke out and had as its object the destruction of the old.
- 633 The taxi-man seemed about to say something, but he changed his mind."Why did you collect beetles?" the policeman asked me."I was interested in them.""But that ain't a suitable answer," he replied. "It ain't suitable. That's what I've been seein
- 632 "If the germ prolongs life, it will lead to complications," he remarked. "The question of being too old has attracted public attention for some time now, which shows the way the wind is blowing. Oldness has become, in a small degree, a problem. The wor
- 631 "The effects of last night have vanished," said Sarakoff to me. "My head is clear again and I have no intention of ever repeating the experiment.""You got back, to some extent.""Yes, partly. It was tremendously painful. I felt like a man in a night
- 630 He put down his gla.s.s. It was half full. There were beads of perspiration on his brow."I'll finish that gla.s.s somehow," he observed. He pa.s.sed his hand across his forehead. "This is extraordinary. It's just like taking poison, Harden, and yet i
- 629 "Of course.""At your age, Dr. Harden?""What has age got to do with it? There is no such thing as age."He stared. Then his eyes turned to Alice."No such thing as age?" he murmured helplessly. "But surely you are not going to sell; you have the bes
- 628 "So you are Dr. Harden!" he exclaimed.He stopped and looked confused."Yes," I said; "please sit down, Mr. Clutterbuck."He did so, twisting his hat awkwardly and gazing at the floor."I owe you an apology," he said at length. "I came to consult you
- 627 "It's awful," I murmured. "We can't be too careful." We began to descend the stairs. "Sarakoff, you remember I told you about that dead sailor? I see now why that expression was on his face. It was the terror that he felt.""Extraordinary!" he mu
- 626 He smiled."You won't need to prove that you're a doctor, sir," he said genially. "We have a lot to do with doctors. I could tell you were a doctor after talking a minute with you. You are all the same.""What do you mean?""Well--it's the things y
- 625 "What's the matter with her?"He frowned."Dr. Sykes thinks it's lung trouble.""Consumption?"He nodded, and an expression of anxiety came over his face. "Good," I exclaimed. "Now listen to what I have to say. Before the week is out your wife will
- 624 "I know what it is," cried Alice suddenly. "It's the Blue Disease. Father, you remember the Perrys were telling us about it yesterday at lunch. They said it was all over Birmingham, and that they had come south partly to escape it. They must have brou
- 623 He pulled it out and examined it. "I'm going across to see this gent," he announced. "It's convenient, 'im living so close. Perhaps he'll 'ave a word to say about this 'ere disease. Fair spread over Birmingham, so they say. It would be nasty if a
- 622 "It's very bad luck on the trout.""Why?""After getting the bacillus into their system, they blunder on to a hook and meet their death straight away.""The bacillus is not proof against death by violence," replied Sarakoff gravely. "That is a fact
- 621 "Why do you blush?" she asked with some interest."He blushed because of your unpardonable familiarity in calling him Richard," laughed Sarakoff."I shall be most happy, Leonora," I stammered, making an immense effort, and longing for the waiter to br
- 620 "It travels about a couple of miles an hour," I replied. "So that means about a day and a half."We spoke in low voices, for we were afraid of detection. The presence of two visitors at that hour might well have attracted attention."A day and a half!
- 619 He held up a warning finger and tiptoed to the door. He opened it suddenly and seemed relieved to find no one outside."Hus.h.!.+" he said, closing the door again. "Yes, they are b.u.t.terflies." He came back to the table and gave one of the gla.s.s pa
- 618 END.THE BLUE GERM.BY MARTIN SWAYNE.CHAPTER I.BLACK MAGIC. I had just finished breakfast, and deeply perplexed had risen from the table in order to get a box of matches to light a cigarette, when my black cat got between my feet and tripped me up.I fell fo
- 617 "Wouldn't you, Mr. Tilman?""Of course. But--well, yes, I suppose I do see, in a way. Let's go see Bennie-boy."So Ben Tilman went into the nursery and enjoyed every second of a fast fifteen-minute roughhouse with his round-faced, laughing, chubby son
- 616 "I sure fooled him!" he gasped. "Mixed up the circuits. Scar Balta sat right here while I broadcast the secret sessions, and he was watching a lot o' haywah in the control screen."When Wilc.o.x got word from outside he knew he was done. He thought Sc
- 615 Sira moved restlessly from place to place, feeling more deeply depressed with every moment. She felt as if she had been left entirely out of life, friendless, alone. Among all these thousands she had no friend. It seemed to her that never before had there
- 614 She kissed him on the forehead. "Farewell, Wasil. I have been here two days already--far longer than prudence allows. They will be here looking for me. Have you any money?"Wasil produced a roll of I. P. scrip; handed it to her."Kiss Mellie for me," sh
- 613 The man's white teeth flashed brilliantly when he spoke."Feeling better? Man, you can feel good to be here at all! Time and again have I seen Scar Balta drop 'em into that lake, but you're the first one ever to break the surface again. He gave you a b
- 612 It happened that there was a service corridor close at hand. Down this she sped, into the darkness of a boat-house. The doors were barred and locked, of course, but the depths of the water showed a faint greenish glimmer of light. Sira dived in, unhesitat
- 611 "Here they come!" Sime croaked, and, peering around a corner, took careful aim at the foremost attacker. At the first whispering impact of the beam the Martian sprawled, dead.The soldiers were caught at a disadvantage. They were expecting club or fist,
- 610 The medical officer, to whom the long climb was arduous, delayed his mission to the roof, and that was why, several hours later, Sime was still alive to see another s.h.i.+p appear to the north. It was large, sumptuous, evidently a private yacht. Its cour
- 609 CHAPTER III.The Price of Monarchy Had Sime been able to follow and watch the girl he had kissed under such unusual circ.u.mstances on the night of his arrival on Mars, he would have been both puzzled and enlightened. After her final warning about Scar Bal
- 608 The girl dropped her dark lashes in a sidelong glance at the stiletto on the floor. There was a little smile on her lips."My usual weapon. Don't you know most of us Martians go armed all the time?""Yeh?" Sime grinned skeptically. "And is it a habit
- 607 At the first splash of water in his face Teutoberg groaned and rolled over."Get up, you," Winford ordered harshly.Teutoberg sat up groggily. The sight of the pistol and Winford's eyes brought him out with a sudden shock."Get over to that air-lock phon
- 606 Winford seized a telescope speed calculator. The sphere was coming up far too rapidly to permit the Golden Fleece to pick up speed soon enough to escape--although he was confident the freighter could do it now, since Agar had changed its propulsion machin
- 605 THE s.p.a.cE ROVER.By Edwin K. Sloat Evan Winford leaned wearily against the controls of the little s.p.a.ce sphere, and stared out of the window at the planet, Mercury, which lay a million miles sunward. Fail now? He gritted his teeth. No! He would wrenc
- 604 He gestured through the translucent skin of the Dome, and I felt sick. There was a little heap of bones lying there, looking oddly bright against the redness of the sands. They were the dried, parched skeletons of Earthmen. Bits of cloth and plastic, once
- 603 "The stars ..." Mark said."Yes?""The sun?""--shall s.h.i.+ne as now.""A b.l.o.o.d.y poet." "A poor poet.""And girls?""I dreamed of a girl named Martha once. Maybe if--""What do you think of girls? And stars? And Earth?" And it was bedtim
- 602 They had come to pa.s.s judgement on him. He had violated their law--wilfully, ignorantly, and very deliberately."Our people will be arriving to visit us today," the robot said."Shut up!" snapped Rod Rankin. He jumped, wiry and quick, out of the chair
- 601 "A limited quant.i.ty of the instruments--fifteen, I believe--are available now on the premises, stored in my office. Within a few weeks I will have enough on hand to supply as many of you as wish to speed up their progress by this method. Since the grou
- 600 From his vantage point behind most of the group, he let his gaze and thoughts wander from one to the other of them again. For the majority of the advanced students, he reflected, the Inst.i.tute of Insight wasn't really too healthy a place. But it offere
- 599 "This new policy of yours." Josip's voice was diffident."You mean overtaking the steel production of the West, by utilizing all methods of production?" The commissar's voice dropped. "I warn you Comrade, the germ of this idea originated with Zoran
- 598 Number One grunted. "I knew Ljubo well. You must realize that his arrest was before my time. I had no power to aid him. It was, of course, after my being elected to the Secretary Generals.h.i.+p that he was exonerated and his name restored to the list of
- 597 Almost at once, there was a new sound--a multiple throbbing, at a quick, snarling tempo that hinted at enormous power, growing louder each second. Hradzka stiffened and drew his blaster; as he did, five more aircraft swooped over the crest of the mountain
- 596 But yesterday, a whole planet had shouted: Hail Hradzka! Hail the Leader! Today, they were screaming: Death to Hradzka! Kill the tyrant!The Palace, where Hradzka, surrounded by his sycophants and guards, had lorded it over a solar system, was now an infer
- 595 In an agony of desire the Doctor tightened his grip on the dying man's shoulder. But Smith collapsed into a heap. Dr. Bird bent forward and tore open his s.h.i.+rt and listened at his chest. Presently he straightened up."He is gone," he said sadly, "a
- 594 For several minutes Carnes swung the telescope around. Twice Dr. Bird stopped him and decreased the sensitiveness of his instrument by introducing more resistance in the lines in order to keep the magnet from twisting clear around, due to the fluctuations
- 593 Danny went outside, to where the lawyer was waiting for him. The trunk was Danny's now, the time trunk. And he would use it again, often. He knew that now, and it was wrong to deflate a dream.Columbus was a hero. He would never say otherwise again.THE EN
- 592 "I need a drink," Columbus whispered. "I can't go through with it.""Father," Nina said. "We're with you. I'm here. Martin is here.""I can't go-""You've got to go through with it! For yourself and for the world. Now, stand straight, father.
- 591 "Hallo, Danny," it said. "The way the years roll by, I forget exactly how old you are, boy. Seventeen? Eighteen? Twenty? Well, it doesn't matter-if you still believe. If you have faith. Faith in what? Maybe now you're old enough to know. I mean faith
- 590 "It's funny," I said after a while."What is?""You know what they say about the whispering. Sometimes when you listen intently you seem to hear words deep in your mind. As if the Martians had telepathic powers.""Perhaps they have," she said.I glan
- 589 Bill answered my question slowly, his eyes on Kenny's cropped head. "I think we'd better take a look at his shoes," he said.We edged up slowly, taking care not to disturb the others, pretending we were sauntering toward the well on a before-breakfast
- 588 No mortal had ever seen the Martians, but they had heard their whisperings--without knowing the terrible secret they kept hidden.There was death in the camp.I knew when I awoke that it had come to stand with us in the night and was waiting now for the day
- 587 Finally dawn began to seep from the bedrooms. When the bulb in the hall had grown quite dim, the Professor unfolded his arms.Just then, there was a loud splas.h.i.+ng in the bathroom. The Professor's family looked toward the door. The splas.h.i.+ng stopp
- 586 "Get in, Dhuva. We might as well ride. Which way do we go to get out of this place?""The wall lies in that direction," said Dhuva. "But I don't know about a gate.""We'll worry about that when we get to it," said Brett. "This whole place is goin
- 585 For half an hour Brett waded in waist-deep water along a wall of damp clay that rose sheer above him. Far above, bars of dim sunlight crossed the upper reaches of the cavern. He had seen no sign of Dhuva ... or the Gels.He encountered a sodden timber that
- 584 The fat man looked down at his rumpled suit. "I ... ah ... was caught a little short today. Didn't have time to change. I'm a busy man. And what business is it of yours?" He clamped his jaw shut, eyed Brett warily."I'm a stranger here," Brett said.
- 583 "You sound like my Aunt Haicey," Brett said. "She said I had everything I needed back in Casperton. How does she know what I need? How do you know? How do I know myself? I can tell you I need more than food and a place to sleep--""What more?""Every
- 582 Brett stepped back inside, and pushed through into the next car. It was empty. He walked along the length of it, into the next car. It was empty too. He went back through the two cars and his own car and on, all the way to the end of the train. All the ca
- 581 He said, voice hoa.r.s.e, "Shut up. Go away. Let me eat alone. I'm sick of the lot of you."Mother and Joe returned a few minutes later where he sat forcing food down his throat. Mother said, "Henry dear--" He didn't answer. She began to cry, and he
- 580 "Come in," Professor Lightning said. "Come in." In the midst of the riot of wealth, the professor didn't seem to have changed at all. He was still wearing the same ratty robe he'd worn in the carnival, his hair was still as uncombed. It was only on
- 579 "Try me," Charley said. "Go ahead." He scratched at one s.h.i.+n with the other foot."Well," Ed began, and then stopped. He shook his head. "Look, Charley, let me tell this my way. Something like this happened before. A long while back--before the
- 578 Professor Lightning nodded. "Now, then," he said. "We'll get right to work on ... Charley, my boy, what did you say?"Charley licked his lips. "I said no," he said.Professor Lightning waited a long minute. "You mean you don't believe me," he said
- 577 COUNSELOR (frowns; it was not the answer he wanted): Very well, then. Dr. Trstensky ... would you come forward, please? Dr. Trstensky ... you are head of the Department of Advanced Cybernetics at Cal Tech. You have had opportunity to study these graphs an
- 576 Beardsley blinked at him. "Sure of what, Pederson?""Of what you're doing! d.a.m.n it, man, don't tell me that was all waste effort in there! Look--I know what this means, and I'm with you all the way. If only you could beat ECAIAC, I'll give it all
- 575 The effect was startling. The tele-columnist was a tall, dour and bushy-browed man who took a perverse sort of pride in the impression he gave of shabbiness. He slouched wordlessly into the room, hands thrust deep in the pockets of a makes.h.i.+ft jacket.
- 574 "So it leaves me right where I started, doesn't it? And yet I know this: it was no emotional killing. It was all coldly planned. The killer was someone Carmack trusted enough to have in his home; they were probably having a quiet little chat together. A
- 573 Beardsley saw Arnold leap to the master-switch, where he became entangled with a tech who was screaming at him, "My G.o.d, sir, hurry! It's BREAKDOWN!"Cursing, Arnold shoved the man aside and pulled the controls.But now that it was roused, ECAIAC didn
- 572 "Me!" Arnold stiffened, pulled his fingers away hastily."That surprises you? Don't worry, you're not one of the Primes; probably be rejected on the first run. It's just that you once knew Carmack rather well. Cal Tech, wasn't it, when Carmack was d
- 571 Old Leithgow trusted his friend a little more. "Get your suit on, Friday," he said gently, and slipped into his own. The negro, ashamed, followed his example; then both were flat on the ground, back to back, sniping--Leithgow also--as best they could un
- 570 Then he heard a faint click inside the laboratory--in a place where no one should be. Instinctively he whirled and crouched--and an orange ray streaked over his head with its wicked spit of death. At once his own ray-gun was up and answering to the spot w
- 569 He took away his hands and raised his eyes.The screen was blank!Friday looked up with a grin from where he was kneeling before the k.n.o.b on the door of the cell. Ca.r.s.e saw that the k.n.o.b was of metal, centered in an inset square of some dull fibrou
- 568 CHAPTER IX.The Brain Speaks A case lay revealed.At first, while it was unlit, it seemed nothing more than that: a case like those gla.s.s-sided and gla.s.s-topped ones found in museums, a case perhaps three feet high, three feet deep and five feet in widt
- 567 CHAPTER VII.The Coming of Leithgow Hawk Ca.r.s.e awoke to the touch of a hand on his brow. He came very slowly to full consciousness. His pain was great.His whole body was sore: every joint, every muscle in it ached; his brain was feverish, pumping turmoi
- 566 He turned to Hawk Ca.r.s.e. "I have thought that an inspection of this, my home in s.p.a.ce, would intrigue you more than anything else my poor hospitality affords. May I do you the honor, my friend?""You are too good to me," the Hawk replied frostily
- 565 CHAPTER II.The Coming of Ku Sui Straight through the vast cold reaches that stretched between one mighty planet and another the Scorpion arrowed, Ca.r.s.e and Friday standing watch and watch, Sako always on duty with the latter. Behind, Saturn's rings me
- 564 "The young one," she said, "the blond one.""It isn't even addressed to me," Alhamid said with a note of puzzled speculation in his voice."No. I noticed that. I told him he could send it straight to the school, but he said you would know how to han
- 563 "No, no, no, Mr. Danley! You are not crawling, Mr. Danley, you are climbing! Do you understand that? Climbing! You have to climb an asteroid, just as you would climb a cliff on Earth. You have to hold on every second of the time, or you will fall off!"
- 562 "If you want to call it that, yes," Tarnhorst said. "Anything that has anything to do with operations in s.p.a.ce requires that sort of experience--and there are very few jobs out here that can avoid having anything to do with s.p.a.ce. s.p.a.ce is onl
- 561 "I am not here in my capacity as an officer of the Workingman's Compensation Insurance Corporation," he said carefully. "I am here as a representative of the People's Congress."Alhamid's face showed a mild surprise which he did not feel. "I'm hon
- 560 "What do you think, Jules?" said St. Simon."Waal, Ah reckon we can do it, cap'n. Ef'n we go to the one o' them thar poles ... well, let's see--" He leaned over and punched more figures into the calculator. "Ain't that purty! 'Cordin' ter this,
- 559 FLAMEDOWN.By H. B. FYFE It was, of course, one h.e.l.l of an ending for a trip to Mars-- Charlie Holmes lost touch with reality amid rending and shattering sounds that lingered dimly. Blackness engulfed him in a wave of agony.He was not sure exactly when
- 558 The Wild Humans were trapped in the middle of Falldyn.Terrified, the men and women of Haafin converged and swirled in a helpless knot in the center of the street Hussir arrows from nearby windows picked them off one by one. The advancing Hussirs in the st
- 557 "Why do all you slaves believe those fairy tales about cannibalism?" she asked scornfully. The word cannibalism was unfamiliar to Alan. "We aren't going to eat you, boy, we're going to make you free. What's your name?""Alan," he answered in a sha
- 556 But it appeared that humans in the city lived closer to their masters. Several times Alan saw them coming out of houses, and a few that he saw were not entirely naked, but wore bright bits of doth at various places on their bodies. Wiln expressed strong d