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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
- 455 I closed my eyes, trying to escape from color, but that was much worse. The colors inside my head blazed out even brighter, more savage.I turned my head, trying to find something in the cabin to look at that was not bright blue or green or red. With horro
- 454 "The unhappy genii did," Doreen told me. "Like this." She flicked the catch back. The TV picture blacked out. The sound stopped in the middle of a word. The air conditioner whispered into silence.Then she flipped the catch the other way."--fouls the
- 453 The Golden Age of Science Fiction.Volume V.An Anthology of 50 Short Stories.Various.OPERATION EARTHWORM. by Joe Archibald Here he is again, the irrepressible Septimus Spink, in a tale as rollicking as an elder giant juggling the stars and the planets in h
- 452 "Say," Quirl said, taking Lenores hand and anxious to be rid of them, "if you find a little monkey-faced guy down in that hold, go easy with him. Hes a good man, too, and Im going to recommend his pardon."……
- 451 "I want to thank you," she said quietly, clearly, "for what you did for me and my brother, Mr.--""Finner. Quirl Finner. I have thought of you as Lenore, and wondered how you were. How long has it been since they took me out? You see--" he grinned,
- 450 He pursued her as she ran, bowling over or trampling on the fear-stricken prisoners as they tried to scramble out of his way, men and women alike. But she made up in agility what she lacked in strength, lifting up the hem of her robe so that her legs twin
- 449 Vera grimaced. "But we've got to do something," she said. "We can't even make them disappear at all, any more. And it's becoming a full time job just to keep them outside the walls.""And sooner or later," interjected Lazar, "we're not going to
- 448 "Hi. What're you doing?""We're looking at the dragon again," said Vera. "Join us?"Brunei thought of the dragon for a moment. The toadstool disappeared, and the by-now-familiar bovine dragon took its place. In the last few days, they had discovered
- 447 He settled back luxuriously on the worn cus.h.i.+ons of his car. Even so little as twenty years before, it would have been impossible for him--for anyone--to stop his vehicle in the middle of Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue purely to meditate. But it
- 446 Hideous, thick creatures, lying coiled in ma.s.ses around the Dome. Preston checked his s.p.a.cesuit, making sure it was sealed. The instruments told him he was a bare ten miles above Ganymede now. One more swing around the poles would do it.He peered out
- 445 "Chief's been looking for you, Preston. It's time for you to get going on your run."Preston scowled. "Time to go deliver the mail, eh?" He spat. "Don't they have anything better to do with good s.p.a.cemen than make letter carriers out of them?"T
- 444 Contents THE CLEAN AND WHOLESOME LAND.By Ralph Sholto Utopia had been reached. All the problems of mankind had been solved. It was the perfect State. If you doubted it, you died.While Professor Cargill lectured from the rostrum, Neal Pardeau prowled the d
- 443 Finally, the stubby scout rocket was winging its way over New York. From the air, the grayish-black spot was easy to find. Like a festered wound, it stretched between Lake Placid and Elizabethtown, covering Keene and Keene Valley, and lapping at the edges
- 442 Micheals wasn't so sure. He walked around the periphery of the leech, asking himself what kind of substance would react that way. The answer was easy--no substance. No _known_ substance.The driver in the lead jeep held up his hand, and the long convoy gr
- 441 And the men of the Whirligig, all of whom had landed on the target head-first, did nothing, their magnificently muscled legs waving idly in a sudden gentle gust of desert breeze.THE END.Contents RESURRECTION.by ROBERT J. SHEA They had been cramped for s.
- 440 "Thank you," Whitlow sighed. "You're certainly running this thing--whatever it is--in an efficient manner.""Thank you!" General Webb glowed. "We like to think so," he added modestly.Pa.s.swords, signs, countersigns, combination-locks and electron
- 439 Suddenly a screeching whirlwind of claws and teeth hurled itself from the smoldering branches and crashed against the robot, clawing insanely at the antenna and blaster barrel. With an awkward jerk the robot swung around and fired its blaster, completely
- 438 I guess Burt decided to ride along. "Okay, Yoris," he said. "Tell you what I'll do. For only one ton of Martian gold I'll agree to drop all plans for a pulp mill, here or anywhere else. In fact, I'll get out of business altogether."Doc moved in lik
- 437 "Is anything the matter, Pop?""What? Oh, no, nothing's the matter. I was just thinking about what I read here.""They had an accident, didn't they? How did it happen?""It happened because their s.h.i.+p wasn't as good as ours. Julian Hagstrom, th
- 436 "Okay," said Sam. "That's that."But it wasn't, and he knew it. Even as he went about preparing his traps, he knew it.As it turned out, the only animals he caught in his traps were small ones which tore themselves in two and then scampered off, each
- 435 "He needs no a.s.sistance?""Nothing could help him for half an hour or more. Then he'll probably have a severe headache."The extraterrestrial had even the ability to achieve a dry quality in his voice. "I am surprised at your forebearance." He took
- 434 "If the KGB is already onto you, Henry Kuran, then you might as well give up. Your mission is already a failure.""I suppose so. Will you have a chair? Can I offer you a drink? My roommate has a bottle of Stolichnaya vodka which he brought from the boat
- 433 Paco grinned at him. "I'm a professional, too. A lawyer by trade. It's just a matter of different professions."A middle-aged pedestrian, pa.s.sing by, said to the girls in Russian, "Have you no shame before the foreign tourists?"They didn't bother
- 432 Hank cleared his throat, didn't allow himself the luxury of a smile. He said, "I'll see what I can do, Char. Seems to me I did read somewhere that the Russkies see nothing wrong in putting strangers in the same sleeping compartment."Char Moore stood t
- 431 "Harvard," Paco said. He stretched widely. "Did you spot those Russian girls in the crew? Blond, every one blond." He grinned. "Not much time to operate with them--but enough."A voice behind them, heavy with British accent said, "Good afternoon, ge
- 430 "None of us do," Sheridan Hennessey said sourly. "Do you think any of us do?" He must have pressed a b.u.t.ton.From behind them the major's voice said briskly, "Will you come this way, Mr. Kuran?"In the limousine, on the way out to the airport, the
- 429 With his feet clamped on the vertical wall of the pump housing and knees locked in a skier's stance, Troy handed over the first of the magnetic clamps. Alec took it and carefully clamped the end of the plastic explosive belt against the pile housing. The
- 428 They turned and walked towards Harbrace's personal copter waiting beside the road a couple of hundred yards away.Without warning, the earth began to s.h.i.+ft beneath their feet and the trio staggered on the rolling surface. From deep within the ground c
- 427 "They're O.K.," Alec said. "I told her to fill up everything in the house with water and I think she had time to get them filled before the water shut down. How bad is it?""It's not good," Troy said. "At this point, I don't think anyone knows ju
- 426 "Thanks, Harry," Troy said. "We're going to take a walk uptown and get something to eat. If the chopper should get here sooner, tell him we'll be right back.""O.K.," the ranger said, "but there's a pot of coffee on the stove in the kitchen if yo
- 425 "We should be within a couple of hundred yards of the marker now," Troy announced as his short, chunky partner checked alongside. Alec nodded and peered through the curtain of sky-darkened snow just beyond the rock face. He could see powder spume whippi
- 424 The conservatively dressed gentleman beside him wanted to know how long he expected to keep the show running."The crossroads will give out before long," he added."The sponsor'll give out first," I said. "History is just one d.a.m.n crossroads after
- 423 An angry voice snarled, "You up there, whoever you are, where'd you leave your brains? No civilian craft are allowed in the air, and that's orders straight from Was.h.i.+ngton. Don't you know there's a war on? Now get down here, before you're shot d
- 422 Shandor gave the door a shove with his shoulder, driving it open into the room. "Shut up," he said bluntly. He turned so the light struck his face, and the little man's jaw dropped in astonishment. "Shandor!" he whispered.Frank Mariel looked like a w
- 421 She looked up at him. "Do you have any idea?""Sure, I've got an idea. A crazy one, but an idea. I don't think he wanted me because of the writing. I think he wanted me because I'm a propagandist."She scowled. "It still doesn't wash. There are lot
- 420 But there weren't any more and two weeks later Cliff, Steena and Bat brought the Empress into the Lunar quarantine station. And that is the end of Steena's story because, as we have been told, happy marriages need no chronicles. And Steena had found som
- 419 "Uglik is a mighty warrior," said Invar doubtfully."So is Anak," was the reply. "Further, I have a plan.""Then are Uglik's days numbered," replied Invar with delight. "Tell me what I am to do to aid you.""When we get to the cave, you may cut o
- 418 "And I go with Anak!" cried Invar. "More than one of the cousins of Gumor will know that the Chief Hunter of the tribe of Ugar and his friend have visited their home."Uglik paused. No trace of fear entered his heart, but the wily politician saw the fo
- 417 B. C. 30,000.By Capt. S. P. Meek A scream of rage split the darkness. From the side of the fire where the women sat darted Esle, the High Priestess, a b.l.o.o.d.y bit of liver in her hand. Following her, and snarling like an enraged cat, came one of the m
- 416 It was this hatch or nothing. He thought it was the right one, but couldn't be sure. He could no longer see. His vision had gone completely. The pain was a numb thing now, far away, hardly a part of himself. Maybe Mayhem was absorbing the pain-sensation
- 415 They all asked Ackerman Boone, who was an unofficial leader among them, what he was going to do. He rubbed his big fingers against the thick stubble of beard on his jaw and you could hear the rasping sound it made. Then he said, "Nothing, until we find o
- 414 Since the s.h.i.+p's refrigeration units would function perfectly until the outer hull reached a temperature of eleven hundred degrees Fahrenheit, none of its pa.s.sengers knew that anything was wrong. Even the members of the crew went through all the no
- 413 "Yes, my son, I did try. But if I had attempted to feign emotions I did not feel your mother would have seen through the pretense. She would then have turned from me completely. Without her I could not have had you, my son.""And now, father, what will
- 412 He ran his palm over the baby's smooth head, opened its mouth gently with his forefinger and looked inside.Sally rose on one elbow, her tormented eyes searching his face."He's your child, your son!" she sobbed. "A woman has a child and her husband co
- 411 "We're rich now," he said resignedly. "You'd be bound to learn it. D'you know what the dinies' teeth are made of?""It's been said," said President O'Hanrahan, "that it's bor ... boron carbide in organic form. What that means I wouldn't know
- 410 "It's the dinies," said the president feebly. "They're a great trouble to us, sir. They're our great handicap.""Blather and nonsense!" snapped Sean O'Donohue. "They're no bigger than mice! Ye could've trapped 'em! Ye could've raised cats! D
- 409 Under cover of Fay's outburst a huge crowd of people had entered the room from the hall--eight, to be exact. But the weirdest thing about them to Gusterson was that from the first instant he had the impression that only one mind had entered the room and
- 408 In his home habitat Gusterson was about as easy to handle as a rogue rhinoceros, but away from it--and especially if underground--he became more like a pliable elephant. All his bones dropped out through his feet, as he described it to Daisy. So now he su
- 407 "You're an immoral money-ravenous wench," Gusterson said absently, trying to dream of an insanity beyond insanity that would make his next novel a real id-rousing best-vender."If that's your vision of me, you shouldn't have chewed up the VV mask."
- 406 Gusterson shrugged. "I don't know about that. I think bugs think."Fay groaned faintly. "Bugs operate by instinct, Gussy," he said. "A patterned routine. They do not scan situations and consequences and then make decisions.""I don't expect bugs to
- 405 "Then their transmission was crude. All they had was simple old-fas.h.i.+oned short-range radio, and even that was noisy and erratic. And their reception was as bad. We had to use a kilowatt before they could pick it up at 200 miles. We didnt know then i
- 404 I was beginning to realize that Thomas was not precisely a genius. "I can make it," I said."Cap'n," Thomas said diffidently, "it ain't none a my business, but don't you think maybe I better get the doctor for ya?""Thomas," I said, "maybe you d
- 403 I ordered Joyce to lock his radar on target, and switch over to autopilot control. Then I called Power Section."I'm taking over all power control from the bridge," I said. "All personnel out of the power chamber and control chamber."The men were stil
- 402 Mannion sent, got his reply. "They're molluscoid, Captain," he said. He looked shocked. "They weigh about two tons each.""Ask them what they eat," I said.I turned to Joyce as Mannion worked over the message. "Get Kramer up here, on the double," I
- 401 Every man stopped in his tracks, listening. The annunciator continued. "Looks like it's decelerating, Captain."I holstered my pistol, pushed past Joyce, and trotted for the lift. The mob behind me broke up, talking, as men under long habit ran for acti
- 400 None of them answered. I sat down. I had to move just a little faster than they did, and by holding the initiative, keep them off balance. They had counted on hearing my approach, having a few moments to get set, and using my surprise against me. I had re
- 399 President Folsom XXV said: "Very well. Have it done."Mrs. Grayson, widow, of New Pittsburgh, Io, disappeared one night. It was in all the papers and on all the broadcasts. Some time later she was found dragging herself back across the line between Nizhn
- 398 The Secretary of Defense growled: "Now wait a minute, Felder! We were voted--"The President interrupted, raging weakly: "Oh, you rascals! My father would have known what to do with you! But don't think I can't handle it. Don't think you can hoodwink
- 397 He broke off as a cute blonde entered and put stacks of reports before both Andy and Bettijean. The girl hesitated, fidgeting, fingers to her teeth. Then, without speaking, she hurried out.Andy stared at the top sheet and groaned. "This may be something.
- 396 Baker was shaking his head and laughing. "No. Sam Atkins didn't tell me that one man could become immune and fight the Plague head on all by himself. He taught me something else that I didn't understand for a long time. He told me that he who ceases to
- 395 Pehrson was a man in whom allegiance was easily swayed. His loyalty was only for the top man of any hierarchy, and he suddenly began to regard Baker with an amazed incredulity. It seemed akin to witchcraft to be able to pull out works of near genius from
- 394 "And nothing short of a Heavenly miracle will ever change that shape!""You have said nothing about how the crystal caused you to attempt suicide," said Fenwick."The crystal invalidated the molecular tape I had chosen to provide my foundation program
- 393 They searched the skeleton and found the splintered bones. They examined the muscle structure and found the torn and shattered tissue. They searched the dark recesses of his vital organs and came to injury that Baker knew was hopeless."You built this onc
- 392 "Yes, Dr. Baker," said Sam Atkins."If you hear me, wave your hands. I will observe you through the field gla.s.ses.""The field gla.s.ses won't be necessary."Both the image before them, and the distant figure on the knoll were seen to wave arms and
- 391 Getting rid of Baker physically was not the answer, of course. If he were gone, a hundred others like him would fight for his place.Baker had to be shown. He had to be shown that high-grading was costing him the very thing he was trying to find. It must b
- 390 Baker pointed soundlessly to the graph."Hobbies and social activities are not bad," Baker said, after a time. "Almost up to within ten points of the standard. A few less bingo parties and Brownie meetings and that many more book reviews or serious soir
- 389 "It's all right," said Fenwick, waving away Baker's protests with a vigorous flap of his hand. "I know Clearwater isn't MIT or Cal Tech, but we've got a real hot physics department, and you're going to see some sparks flying out of there if you'l
- 388 The first group was off to the other side of the fence, and I couldn't see or hear them. The wait seemed to go on for hours; perhaps a minute and a half pa.s.sed. Then the first heater went off.The sentry whirled and fired without really thinking. There
- 387 That explained things, of course. As the population grew, the cities would expand and the forests would go under. It had happened on Earth, and on every settled planet. As recently as 1850, for instance, large tracts of New York City, where I make my home
- 386 "Take a look at that!" he demanded.Norris took the stone, glanced at it and laid it down on his desk. His face was emotionless. "I expected this sooner or later," he said. "Yes, it's Indurate all right. Is that what you want me to say?"There was a
- 385 After we had been weeded out, interviewed and rigorously questioned, Norris had taken us into the hangar, waved a hand toward the Marie Galante and explained the details.The Marie Galante was a cruiser-type s.h.i.+p, stripped down to essentials to maintai
- 384 "Stop it. Quit predicting what I'll do. Let's go to the nursery."They went to the nursery and stayed there for three-quarters of an hour. They left with the tinny laughter filling their minds--and the last words of the monstrous ent.i.ty."We'll say
- 383 "Nomads," said Orne. "This house is a glorified tent. Men on the outside, women on the inside. Look for inner courtyard construction. It's instinctive with Nathian blood. Add to that, an inclination for odd musical instruments--the kaithra, the tambou
- 382 "Yes," said Orne. "But what if your Nathian underground is composed entirely of women bred the same way? What if the Heleb women were just a bunch who got out of hand because they'd lost contact with the main element?""Holy Moley!" blurted Stetson.
- 381 "Sure," said Stetson. "We have history books. They say the Nathians were top drawer in political mechanics. We know for a fact they chose landing sites for their refugees with diabolical care. Each family was told to dig in, grow up with the adopted cu
- 380 This was Otah's last bitter thought, and then he was too occupied for cerebral indulgence. For the next minutes he wielded truer than any! Men came and fell, and others leaped and fell, skulls shattered, the life-stuff spurting, before Otah's shaft went
- 379 Otah came, and Lak and one other, and together they brought Obe back. No one made remark on the slaying; it was enough that Obe was here! And when Gral came forward at the gorging to take the bringer's share, he merely took and retired, disdaining the gr
- 378 "Take it. I was beginning to feel lonesome, anyway."He bowed gravely and ordered the porter to bring in his things. I decided he was a musician. Only artists go in for such lovely hair. But he undressed in dignified silence, not casting so much as anoth
- 377 If my friend the engineer had not told me the Tube was dangerous, I would not have bought a ticket on that fatal night, and the world would never have learned the story of the Golden Cavern and the City of the Dead. Having therefore, according to universa
- 376 "Pollard!" My lips moved with difficulty. "Pollard, this is terrible--this change--"His radiant eyes flashed. "Terrible? It's wonderful! Do you two realize what I now am, can you realize it? This body of mine is the kind of body all men will have in
- 375 "There! There! By heaven, I can make it!"Two or three hundred feet--it was not clear just how far--from the face of the dam, on the bare right bank of the channel, a tiny pin-p.r.i.c.k of black was moving slowly along. It seemed to move by itself throug
- 374 Istafiev was speaking again, in low, terse tones, oblivious of the desperate resolve forming in Chris's brain."Only one of the dirigibles had been destroyed. Well, it iss too bad, but not fatal to the plan. The ZX-1 can hamper our country's operations
- 373 The chief operator on duty in the flags.h.i.+p of the Black Fleet swung round in his seat and yelled through into the bridge of the ma.s.sive battles.h.i.+p: "Urgent, sir! From the ZX-1!"A moment later the captain of the s.h.i.+p, for the fleet's admir
- 372 RAIDERS INVISIBLE.By D. W. Hall Alone and unaided, Pilot Travers copes with the invisible foes who have struck down America's great engine of war.The m.u.f.fled, helmeted figure of a pilot climbed down the spider ladder, nestled into the foremost scout'
- 371 Zaidie took half-a-dozen photographs of the surface of Calisto while they were pa.s.sing it at a distance of about a hundred miles, and then went to get lunch ready.When they got on to the upper deck again Calisto was already a half-moon in the upper sky
- 370 "I was delighted to hear Prime Minister Nehru say," General O'Reilly went on calmly, "how much he approved this method of settling old disputes. And I should be very glad to help--with this." Smiling, he tossed the Golden Judge in the air and caught
- 369 Rockford smiled at him, "And you learned that an old man's mind can be mightier than the s.p.a.ce fleets of the Verdam empire--and that the line of duty that produces the best results can sometimes be very devious."He thought of the white-faced Sonig,
- 368 But there was no reason why he should endanger her by obeying Rockford's insane order. He would not do it-- "Ah ... good morning, Lyla!" Rockford loomed in the doorway, jovial as a Santa Claus. "Did you know Dale wants to go for a walk in the woods wi
- 367 Gravel crunched loudly on one of the paths in the ghost trees and they looked back, to see Narf and Sonig coming, walking swiftly. Even at the distance, there was anger like a red aura about Narf."Well," Lyla said softly, "here comes my medicine."Soni
- 366 "Well," Rockford said, "what do you think of her?"Hunter tried to keep the personal dislike out of his coldly formal reply: "If you refer to your suggestion that I not make love to her, sir, I can a.s.sure you that such a suggestion was never necessa
- 365 "You're Val Boran, sir?" he said. "I'm Lieutenant Hunter--"Inside, Narf sat at the head of the table. On his left was Lyla, then Rockford. On his right was a spidery little man of about fifty, his slick-back hair so tight against his skull that it g
- 364 "Not a machine," I said gently. "Six of them. Each time the basic data was pumped into a new McGuire brain, you a.s.sumed that it was the same machine you'd known before with a little of its memory removed. Each time, you'd tell it to 'remember' ce
- 363 "I see," I said. I hadn't realized that Brock was that close to panic. What was eating him?There must be something, but I couldn't figure it. Even the Intelligence Corps of the Political Survey Division can't get complete information every time.After
- 362 The girl acknowledged his invitation and accepted it. Brock and I trailed along like the bodyguards we were supposed to be. I wondered whether or not Brock suspected me of being more than I appeared to be. If he didn't, he was stupider than I thought; on
- 361 Jack gave him a meaningless smile and said: "h.e.l.lo, colonel." She was obviously not very impressed with either of us."Mind if I sit?" Brock asked.We didn't, so he sat."I'm sorry I missed you at the s.p.a.ceport," Brock said seriously, "but I h
- 360 "That doesn't make much sense," I said."No. It doesn't. It isn't sensible. Those s.h.i.+ps' brains shouldn't have behaved that way. Robot brains don't go mad unless they're given instructions to do so--conflicting orders, erroneous information,
- 359 No. n.o.body ever deliberately named a s.p.a.ces.h.i.+p that. The staid and stolid minds that run the companies which design and build s.p.a.ces.h.i.+ps rarely let their minds run to fancy. The only example I can think of is the unsung hero of the last ce
- 358 "So if the s.p.a.ce Force should seize the Gemsbok, they'll all hear about it?""Within a few weeks, sir. That kind of news has wings on any world. I think we could take her for you, but we might do some damage. The size of a scout crew doesn't lend i
- 357 Mayne looked at Haruhiku."Oh, come on, now! I came all the way from--" He stopped as he noticed the pilot's grave expression. "Oh! That sort of thing could be serious, I guess."He imagined he had seen the chief, Eemakh, come alert at the mention of t
- 356 The three stared at it. Sickened shock settled over them slowly.Thacher held the rod loosely, calmly, pointing it at Erickson. "We knew you three were on this s.h.i.+p," he said. "There was no doubt of that. But we did not know what had become of the C