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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
- 155 "I, the Martian Master, say it. Those first to go shall seize that matter-receiver on earth when first they appear there, shall build other and larger receivers, and through them within days all our Martian hordes shall have been flashed to earth! Shall
- 154 Allan Randall stared at the man before him. "And that's why you sent for me, Milton?" he finally asked.The other's face was unsmiling. "That's why I sent for you, Allan," he said quietly. "To go to Mars with us to-night!"There was a moment's sil
- 153 She turned away, and vanished among the trees like a shadow.He was unaware of the pa.s.sage of time as he stood there on the hill that was silent with her going and remembered the day he had met her and the way the song swans had been calling. When he loo
- 152 "No," he said, thinking of Y'Nor's fury if Y'Nor should learn he had had a friendly lunch with a native girl. "About your church--what kind of a church is it, anyway?""What its name implies. Heaven isn't for sale at the pulpit--everybody has to q
- 151 "Hand me that pistol," he ordered."Try to take it, you Vogarian ape!"He moved, and a moment later she was sitting on the ground, her eyes wide with dismayed surprise as he shoved the pistol in his own belt."Resisting a Vogarian with a deadly weapon c
- 150 The negro grunted indignantly. "You surely don't imply Ah'm sca'ed of that yellow c.h.i.n.k? h.e.l.l, no! Why--"Ca.r.s.e chuckled and cut him off."I see. Well, then, drag these carrion out to your pit. And then--"There was something in the air, som
- 149 His face hardened.Blobs of flame that flared from wood torches were cl.u.s.tered about the nearest side of the phanti corral. A dark blur of figures were ringed in a half-circle, and from it came yells of delight and almost hysterical laughter. The Hawk'
- 148 Friday noted one of the pirates: a brawny, black-browed giant almost as large as himself, and decided to go for him when the time came. He whispered this to Ca.r.s.e; then, keeping his gaze on the man, he stood ready."Begin, I'm waiting," reminded Hawk
- 147 They waited.It was hot and stuffy down in the belly of the s.h.i.+p, and also utterly black, for the trader had flicked off his hand-flash. Friday was unhappily possessed of an active curiosity; he wanted terribly to go on with his questions and ask Ca.r.
- 146 And even Harkness, new to the frontiers of s.p.a.ce, knew the name and echoed it haltingly."Judd the Kite...."Of all the henchmen Dr. Ku Sui had gathered about him and banded against Earth, and against Ca.r.s.e, and against all peaceful traders and merc
- 145 A red dot of light was winking on a switchboard. Friday watched the Hawk move in his quick, effortless way to it and pull a lever down, all in the same motion, and then the negro's neck muscles corded as he listened to the sounds that came, choking and b
- 144 It was the First Officer of the STS-52 who finally got the story straight. As soon as Clayton was in condition, the medic and the quartermaster officer who had found him took him up to the First Officer's compartment."I was checking through the stores t
- 143 The voice sounded as if the man had a bad cold, and Clayton turned slowly to look at him. After all the sterilization they went through before they left Earth, n.o.body on Mars ever had a cold, so there was only one thing that would make a man's voice so
- 142 "I was thinking that if Bern were the saboteur, all our theories about psionics would have to be thrown out--we'd have to start from a different set of precepts. And I didn't even want to think about such an idea!""n.o.body likes their pet theories o
- 141 He was just finis.h.i.+ng his coffee as Bill Griffin came in the door and headed toward the table where MacHeath, Luvochek, and Bessermann were sitting.MacHeath stood up and said: "Excuse me. I'll have to be getting some work done if you guys are ever g
- 140 In repose, his face looked even younger than his twenty-eight years would have led one to expect. His close-cropped brown hair added to the impression of youth, and the well-tailored suit on his slim, muscular body added to the effect. At any top-flight u
- 139 Donna's voice, strained but coldly controlled, came over the intercom with readings from her instruments. He corrected his courses accordingly.Then he saw the image of their target centered on one screen, so he concentrated on steering the other missile.
- 138 He would have preferred to avoid the trouble the girl had been stirring up, but he did not relish Brecken's tone. A few days off Luna, he reflected, and already he was getting independent."Listen," said Donna, encouraged in her defiance, "when I touch
- 137 Varret frowned at him. "Several members gave their lives trying to learn the nature of the disease. We have no information to date, except a theory that it attacks the nervous and circulatory systems, because the reports indicate that the reason of the v
- 136 "Robots and androids frequently look on their makers as their parents," said Jakdane. "Quest may not even know he's artificial. Do you know how Mansard died?""The oxygen equipment failed, Quest said.""Yes. Do you know when?""No. Quest never did
- 135 Trella swung with her whole body, and slapped him so hard he nearly fell from his chair. As she walked swiftly toward the bar, he leaped up to follow her.There were only two other people in the Golden Satellite: the fat, mustached bartender and a short, s
- 134 Just as the sun fell below the rim of the asteroid, plunging it into a darkness only faintly relieved by the light of the stars, he crashed into the deeper underbrush. A trailing creeper tripped him in his mad flight. He fell headlong, to lie panting, sob
- 133 THE PLANETOID OF PERIL.By Paul Ernst Undaunted by crazy tales of an indestructible presence on Asteroid Z-40, Harley 2Q14N20 sets out alone to face and master it.Harley 2Q14N20 stopped for a moment outside the great dome of the Celestial Developments Comp
- 132 And Danny, as he drove his red meteor into the clear air of the upper levels, was searching the heavens above for the enemy he had expected to sight down below. He knew now that his mad plunge into the seething flames was only a blind impulse--an effort t
- 131 All this happened in a matter of seconds, and the moving head ceased at last to move; the line no longer grew. But, where it had been at first a thin mark of black, it changed now to billowing gray.It was fifty miles away at least; but it showed clear and
- 130 Franks laughed. "Stop us? You saw what happened when they tried to stop us before. They can't; they're only machines. We built them so they can't lay hands on us, and they know that."His voice trailed off.The men stared at the Tube entrance. Around t
- 129 "This is the entrance to the Council Chamber. There are windows in the Chamber Room, but it is still dark outside, of course. You'll see nothing right now, but in two hours-""Open the door," Franks said.The door slid back. They went slowly inside. Th
- 128 "It's quite an experience," Moss said. "They're almost human."They entered the chamber and seated themselves behind the lead wall. After a time, a signal was flashed, and Franks made a motion with his hands.The door beyond the wall opened. Taylor pe
- 127 This time, they were in a building, like a crude shed, and there were men there, standing in front of a creature that seemed like a human in armor--but chitinous armor that was part of him. The alien suddenly turned, though Duke could now see that they we
- 126 A headline glared up at him, catching his attention. He started to skim the story, and then read it thoroughly. Things weren't going at all as he'd expected in the Outer Worlds, if the account were true; and usually, such battle reports weren't altered
- 125 The lights in the palace showed that the Earth guests were still celebrating as the great, heavily-laden wars.h.i.+p blasted up and headed toward Earth.V.Duke O'Neill found a corner of the lounge where no Earthman was near and dropped down with the magaz
- 124 Duke went steadily on, not varying his steps. The machine paced him uncertainly. "Director Flannery of Earth Foreign Office, Captain O'Neill. He requests your presence," he shouted over the purr of his machine. He started to swing ahead of the marching
- 123 "I went with them--that d.a.m.ned Franklin--he thought I was as bad as him--" Her faint words were barely audible as he bent down to her. "Just want to tell you, Lee--you're perfectly swell--I guess I fell for you, didn't I? That's over now--just wa
- 122 "Yes," she agreed shyly. She caught her breath as she added, "I have been--waiting for you--a long time." Shyly she gazed up at him. The night-breeze had blown her hair partly over her face. Her hand brushed it away so that her gaze met his. "I hoped
- 121 Then at last all the blobs--each of them, to Earth-size conception, a monstrous Universe--all were dwindled into one blob down to one side of Lee's window. And then they were gone....Just darkness now. Darkness and soundless emptiness. But as he stared a
- 120 He could only sit in silence, gripping her hand. And again the gay voices of his guests downstairs came up like a roar of intrusion. They didn't know that she was more than indisposed. She had made him promise not to tell them.Her eyes had closed, and no
- 119 His telepathic mind caught the idea long before his ears could frame the words. The actual sound followed the idea the way that thunder on an ocean beach follows the lightning inward from far out over the seas."The Fighting Room is ready. Clear to planof
- 118 "Look here, youngster. You don't have to worry about that stuff. Pinlighting is getting better all the time. The Partners are getting better. I've seen them pinlight two Rats forty-six million miles apart in one and a half milliseconds. As long as peop
- 117 Jaeger looked again at the boy, who was sitting tensely, his hands gripping the arms of his chair, his eyes fastened fearfully on the officer before him. As Jaeger watched, Elwar half rose from his chair, then sank back, his face appearing to mirror Kweir
- 116 "A little different from your usual style, isn't it?"Forell nodded, watching the man tensely. "I'm trying something new," he said. "Go ahead and read it, then tell me what you think."He busied himself with a bottle and gla.s.ses.INFORMAL MEMO.130-
- 115 Odal said nothing, but strained every cell in his pain-wracked body to get free of the boulder. Hector reached over his shoulder and began fumbling with the valves that were pressed against the rocks."Sorry to do this ... but I'm not, uh, killing you, a
- 114 "You were whistling."Hector shrugged. "I always whistle, sir. Doesn't mean I'm happy.""All right," Leoh said, rubbing his eyes. "How did the girl take her father's death?""Pretty hard. Cried a lot."Leoh looked at the younger man. "Does she b
- 113 The phone chimed in Leoh's office. They both went in. Geri Dulaq's face showed on the tri-di screen."I have just heard the news. I did not know that Lieutenant Hector has challenged Odal." Her face was a mixture of concern and reluctance."He challeng
- 112 There he was! The shadowy outline of a man etched itself on the detector screen. And at the same time, Ma.s.san heard a m.u.f.fled roar, then a rumbling, cras.h.i.+ng noise, growing quickly louder and more menacing.He looked up the face of the ice cliff a
- 111 They worked in the dueling machine day and night now, enclosed in the booths for twelve or more hours a day, driving themselves and the machine's regular staff to near-exhaustion. When they gulped their meals, between duels, they were physically ragged a
- 110 They took to the slideway. Half a second later, Hector jumped off and dashed back to the communications desk for his traveling kit. He hurried back to Leoh b.u.mping into seven bewildered citizens of various descriptions and nearly breaking both his legs
- 109 The result was inescapable. The civilized worlds became constantly more crowded as time wore on. They became jampacked islands of humanity sprinkled thinly across the sea of s.p.a.ce that was still full of unpopulated islands.The expense and difficulty of
- 108 Leoh plopped down in the nearest chair and ran a hand across his fleshy face. He was balding and jowly, but his face was creased from a smile that was almost habitual, and his eyes were active and alert."I don't understand it," he admitted. "Nothing l
- 107 "Good, Marsden, throttle back and hang on your converters."I did as I was told."Ah--there she is--bear left a little. Hmm--she's looking for us--looks suspicious. Now she's turning toward 'Amphitrite.' Guess she figures we are gone. She's in posit
- 106 The Golden Age of Science Fiction.Volume II.An Anthology of 50 Short Stories.by Various.A QUESTION OF COURAGE. by Jesse Franklin Bone I smelled the trouble the moment I stepped on the lift and took the long ride up the side of the "Lachesis." There was
- 105 We stood looking up at the sky over Shattuck mountain where there was a great big-shoot now, I d'no as I can call its name but it was like a trail of fire in the sky, and it was makin' the dangdest racket you ever heard, Rev'rend. Looked kind of like o
- 104 "You must change your home because of the change in your family composition," the Ration Board's bright young female had explained, right after Tillie's funeral. "Your present furnis.h.i.+ngs are obsolete. You must replace them.""And if I don't?"
- 103 "Yes, Daddy," Jack said before his father mentioned his visitor's name. But he was not Jack Crane in his game; he was Uncas. The big chairs and the divan were trees in his imaginative eyes. The huge easy chair in which Daddy's caller (Jack thought of
- 102 For a short minute he sat, tense, his body stiffened by the agony that rode it--unable to move a muscle. I watched the torment in his eyes build up to a crescendo of pain, until the suffering became so great that it filmed his eyes, and I knew that, thoug
- 101 "In that case," said Joyce with a shudder, "we'd better do our best to get out of here!"But this was found to be impossible. They couldn't climb up out of the pit, and nowhere could they feel any openings in the walls. Only smooth, impenetrable ston
- 100 "We've struck it, Joyce. And it's much denser than the moon's, even as we'd hoped. There'll be life on Zeud, my boy, unless I'm vastly mistaken. You'd better look to the motor now."Joyce went to the water-motor. This was a curious, but extremely
- 99 He had to know more. He had to find someone who could tell him.He moved through the hall to the door, emerged into the street. On the walk he looked skyward, trying to make out the sun. But there wasn't any sun ... only an all pervading grayness that shr
- 98 He didn't walk fast. He took his time. He always returned to his front door at exactly 7:45. No one ever stopped to talk with him. Even the man at the Red Star confectionery, where he bought his cigar, remained silent while the purchase was being made. M
- 97 MacReidie looked over toward me and frowned. I shrugged my shoulders helplessly. I was a little afraid of the stranger, too.The trouble was the look of him. It was the look you saw in the bars back on Earth, where the veterans of the war sat and stared do
- 96 "There, it is gone," said Kori, blinking. "But something, Excellency, made that distortion of line. And something made Soyo's wolfhound act as it did! Something--""Art thou attempting to say a spy listens unseen in this room?" demanded the gray-mus
- 95 The specified two minutes pa.s.sed. He cut off the power. The great ring lost speed, stopped whirling. And on the plate was--nothing.At least it seemed there was nothing. But a moment later a deep voice sounded out: "I guess I'm invisible, all right, ac
- 94 "See," said Professor Eddinger quietly. And his one thin hand pointed to a far shelf, where, in the shadow, was a huddle of brown fur and a bit of crust. It fell as they watched, and the "plop" of the soft body upon the floor sounded loud in the silen
- 93 The day pa.s.sed, and the next. He made another search of the bubble's interior with the same results as before. He felt almost sure, then, that there was nothing in the bubble with him. He established a routine of work, pastime and sleep that made the f
- 92 "Even that business of carrying the wrist.w.a.tch in your pocket instead of on your arm," he went on with channeled hysteria. "A neat bit of camouflage, Effie. Very neat. And telling me it was my child, when all the while you've been seeing him for mo
- 91 "I only wanted to look at the Moon," she said, turning around, and then it was all gone--the face, the night, the Moon, the magic--and she was back in the grubby, stale little hole, facing an angry, stale little man. It was then that the eternal thud of
- 90 The man bowed his head slightly in acknowledgement. "Yes, Mr. Hastings," he said.Mel was dismayed. "How do you know who I am?" he said.James Connemorra looked through the port beside Mel and at the stars beyond. "I have been looking for you long enou
- 89 The chamber was one of scores stationed throughout the s.h.i.+p as required by law. The escape chambers contained s.p.a.ce suits for personal exit from the s.h.i.+p in case of emergency. They were never expected to be used. In any emergency requiring aban
- 88 He shaved, bathed and dressed, then began emptying the drawers, one by one. There were many souvenirs, mementos. She was always collecting these. Her bottom drawer was full of stuff that he'd glimpsed only occasionally.In the second layer of junk in the
- 87 Below the skin, the surface layers of fatty tissue, the substance of the tissue changed from the dark red of the wounded tissue to a dark and greenish hue that spoke of deadly decay.But Dr. Winters was shaking his head. "No. It's not gangrene. That's t
- 86 "They had tried it many times, they said, but nothing had been on the spot at that time and they had rotated nothing but the air above it from the one time to the other, and the reverse. I told them of the thunderclaps that had been heard at the spot in
- 85 "Man is gone, and it is better, Trest," said Roal, dreaming again. "And I think we had best go soon.""We, your heirs, have fought hard, and with all our powers to aid you, Last of Men, and we fought to save your race. We have failed, and as you truly
- 84 The investigator pa.s.sed to the power room ahead of the Outsiders, who were anxiously trying to learn the reason for their companion's plight.Directed by the Center of Rulers, the investigator sought the power room, and relayed the control signals from
- 83 "Yes!""All right," I said.It's wonderful what three little white pills will do. I wasn't even shaking."There's six men, see? In a s.p.a.ce the size of a Buick, and that's all the room there is. Two of us in the bunks all the time, four of us on w
- 82 Varta tried to help but even their united strength was useless against the force which held the loops in place. Breathless the girl slumped back against the wall of the cabin while Lur settled down on his haunches. One of the odd patches of color drifted
- 81 She was the guardian of the worlds, but HER world was dead.Even here, on the black terrace before the forgotten mountain retreat of Asti, it was possible to smell the dank stench of burning Memphir, to imagine that the dawn wind bore upward from the pilla
- 80 Ned Vince was eager for the company of the girl he loved. That was why he was in a hurry to get to the neighboring town of Hurley, where she lived. His old car rattled and roared as he swung it recklessly around Pit Bend.There was where Death tapped him o
- 79 Two workmen were moving a heavy cabinet in the side service door. To get in, they climbed up the back of the rear workman, walked across the cabinet, and scaled down the front of the leading man. They went up the stairs to the fifteenth floor. Here they c
- 78 Sweat oozed out on his clammy forehead. That stuff of Herman's that he had drunk during the game--it had had a rank taste, but he wouldn't have thought anything short of marihuana could produce such hallucinations as he had just had. Wild conjectures ca
- 77 "We want to go to Venus, if that ray of yours can put us there.""To Venus? Impossible. My orders are to use the Express merely between the sixteen designated stations, at New York, San Francisco, Tokyo, London, Paris--""See here, Charley," with a ca
- 76 The Reverend Elijah Cook was sitting with an expression of strong distrust on his face. Preaching much had brought home certain truths to him very vividly, and he always suspected rhetoric. "Are those things figures of speech," he asked; "or am I to ta
- 75 "Gee!" Em said dreamily. "I wonder what kind of wires you'd have to pull to get put away in solitary?""All right, pipe down," said the turnkey, "or I'll toss the whole kit and caboodle of you right out. And first one who lets on to anybody outsid
- 74 Gramps Ford, his chin resting on his hands, his hands on the crook of his cane, was staring irascibly at the five-foot television screen that dominated the room. On the screen, a news commentator was summarizing the day's happenings. Every thirty seconds
- 73 "Sir! The Niccola is effectively a wreck and unrepairable. But the Plumie s.h.i.+p is operable if cut loose. As weapons officer, I intend to take the Plumie s.h.i.+p, let out its air, fill its tanks with our air, start up its drive, and turn it over to y
- 72 Electricians half-floated, half-dragged extra batteries to the radar room. Baird hooked them in. The universe outside the s.h.i.+p again appeared filled with brilliantly colored dots of light which were stars. More satisfying, the globe-scanners again rep
- 71 The new setup began its operation, instantly the last contact closed. The three-dimensional map served as a matrix to control it. The information-beam projector swung and flung out its bundle of oscillations. It swung and flashed, and swung and flashed. I
- 70 "Tear-out." Jones objected."Bailey it--spidered out to twenty or so big, flat feet. That'll take metal, but we can cannibal the whole Middle without weakening the structure.""Sure ... surges--backlash. Remote it.""Check. Remote everything to Baby
- 69 "I see." Lopresto forced his anger down. "But I've got to be sure we can get back without 'em.""You can be d.a.m.n sure. I got to get back myself, don't I? But get one thing down solid. I get the big peroxide blonde.""You can have her. Too big.
- 68 "No need, darling. Two other men out there. The old man probably won't need it--I think I got him into the safe quick enough--the other guy and I will help each other. So lie down there on the bunk and take it easy until I come back here and help you ge
- 67 "Just the biggest on Earth, is all. And not only on Earth. He operates in all the systems for a hundred pa.r.s.ecs around, and he never sinks a dry hole. Every well he drills is a gusher that blows the rig clear up into the stratosphere. Everybody wonder
- 66 Lancaster woke up again lying on a cot. He must have been brought awake by a stimulant, for a white-coated figure was beside him, holding a hypodermic syringe. Harris was there too, looking exasperated."Can you talk?" he asked."I-yes." Lancaster's vo
- 65 "Okay, okay, I won't argue politics. Tell me about some of the people here, will you? They're an odd bunch.""I can't tell you much, Allen. That's where Security does apply. Isaacson is a Martian colonist, you've probably guessed that already. Jess
- 64 "Eh?" Lancaster's eyes widened behind the contact lenses. "But no one else has informed me-""No one of your acquaintance knows of this. Nor shall they. But tell me, you've done work on dielectrics, haven't you?""Yes. It's been a sort of special
- 63 The first sinister note there entered the diary: "Some of the men say we shouldn't have disturbed the temple. Think it will bring us bad luck. Rubbish, of course. But one man did vanish while they were smelting the gold. Poor Mr. Tom James. I suppose he
- 62 It was merely a dog. A little dog, yellow, nondescript, pathetically delighted. With a sharp, eager bark, it leaped up at Thad, pawing at his armor and licking it, standing on its hind legs and reaching toward the visor of his helmet.It was very thin, as
- 61 Suddenly, Ord's head was erect, and the old, clear light was in his blue eyes. "Now I understand!" he shouted. "I thought Travis was raving back there, before he shot himself-and your talk of the Emperor! American respect for Indian rights! Jeffersoni
- 60 REMEMBER THE ALAMO!.By T. R. FEHRENBACH THIS IS, I THINK, ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL COMMENTS ON THE MODERN SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY I HAVE SEEN-A REALLY BLOOD-CHILLING LITTLE TALE....Toward sundown, in the murky drizzle, the man who called himself Ord brought Lie
- 59 "If you feel a little rocky there's a bottle of Scotch in my desk. I'll split a drink with you when we get out of here.""Thanks," Mary said. "I think I could use one.""Barton! Where is the MacNeal stain!" Kramer's voice came from the lab. "I l
- 58 She nodded."Weren't you frightened?""Of dying? Hardly. Too many people are doing it nowadays."He grimaced, looking more satanic than ever. "You have a point," he admitted, "but it isn't a good one. Young people should be afraid of dying.""You'
- 57 "We told you that this is the most modern, most complex and delicate computer in the world ... nothing like it has ever been attempted before--anywhere.""I know that They don't have anything like it," the CIA man agreed."And you also know, I suppose
- 56 "You know that, too?""You have one of their rifles," said Orne."Your race is no match for us, Orne ... in cunning, in strength, in the prowess of the mind. Your s.h.i.+p landed to repair its tubes. Very inferior ceramics in those tubes."Orne turned,