The Golden Age Of Science Fiction Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the The Golden Age Of Science Fiction novel. A total of 1755 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
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
- 1455 Irene's green eyes had lost their coldness. She let her hand rest on his for a moment. But her voice was puzzled."This Dura-ki--she is the woman on the Hawk of Darion?"Ransome nodded. He stood up. His lips were a hard, thin line."My li
- 1454 "No."Ransome meant it. Somewhere, in the years of flight, he had lost his love for the blonde, red-lipped Dura-ki, and with it had gone his bitter hatred and his desire for revenge.He jerked his mind back to the present, to Mytor."And if I
- 1453 The Niobians held the emergency session at Base Alpha, where our radio could carry the proceedings to the entire planet. Whatever else they may be, Niobian government sessions are open to the public. Since the advent of radio, practically the entire publi
- 1452 It was the Piralones all right.The last time I'd seen them was when I led the rescue party that pulled Wilson Chung and his pa.s.sengers out of the Baril Ocean, but they were still the same, tiny deserted spots of land surrounded by coral reefs. We w
- 1451 As I said, there was both Niobian and Confederation food at the banquet, so I figured that it was a good time as any to get revenge for what my dog-headed friend did to my stomach a good decade before.So I introduced him to Terran cooking.Niobians a.s.sim
- 1450 Inside a minute, all the nearby scorpions had begun banging away at the structures some three miles distant. The heavy scorpion guns were quite capable of carrying that far, and their sh.e.l.ls had enough punch to do much damage to the buildings or to the
- 1449 Hearts pounding, they raced into the tunnel.It was an unreal, nightmare flight. The blue shaft curved and descended endlessly. Endlessly ahead of them echoed the snarling of drone engines.They ran with lungs near to bursting, through air heavy and foul wi
- 1448 Which was what Dworn would be--He stifled further reflection, said crisply: "You can go now. I'll remain here; I have a duty to perform. But you can return--go make your peace with your people, or whatever you like."Qanya's black eyes
- 1447 "Yes," she said tonelessly."Do you obey me if I give you orders?""Yes."Dworn grinned exultantly. It had worked--But there was no time to lose. The Spider Mother might return any moment."Where is my machine?" She ans
- 1446 The first-come scavenger growled throatily and lumbered toward the interlopers, plainly taking heart from their air of harmless stupidity. Behind it, the other scavenger came clattering up the slope to its fellow's aid.Flame bloomed thunderously from
- 1445 The first objection is, that a Flatlander, seeing a Line, sees something that must be THICK to the eye as well as LONG to the eye (otherwise it would not be visible, if it had not some thickness); and consequently he ought (it is argued) to acknowledge th
- 1444 Before I could utter a word of remonstrance, I felt a shooting pain in my inside, and a demoniacal laugh seemed to issue from within me. A moment afterwards the sharp agony had ceased, leaving nothing but a dull ache behind, and the Stranger began to reap
- 1443 When I had done this at great length, I cried triumphantly, "Does that at last convince you?" And, with that, I once more entered Lineland, taking up the same position as before.But the Monarch replied, "If you were a Man of sense-though, a
- 1442 Golden Age of Science Fiction.Vol XII.by Various.FLATLAND.By Edwin A. Abbott PART 1.THIS WORLD.SECTION 1.Of the Nature of Flatland I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are priv
- 1441 Then, as the priests completed their third bow, I turned and faced the statue.As my eyes fell upon the shutter behind the thick, grinning lips, the shutter which released the lethal force, a wild and desperate idea came to me. With a shout, I jerked the g
- 1440 Desperately, I quickly turned the dial until the two red marks coincided. A great weight, soft and enveloping, seemed to drop upon me. The senses of sight and hearing and feeling all left me. I could only think--and my thoughts were horrible.Then, suddenl
- 1439 "You're the fool!" Eric said. He laughed as he leaped forward.Abbot's eyes went wide suddenly; he tried to dodge, gave a little grunt, and went limp in Eric's grasp.Eric laughed again, swung Abbot into the s.h.i.+p and leaped in h
- 1438 Everything was lost now--even the hills.Unless ... one chance. The only chance, and it was nearly hopeless."Get in the back, Lisa," he said. "Climb over the seat and hide in that storage compartment. And stay there."The two nearest car
- 1437 "Even if you do come back, you won't want me."There wasn't any answer at all.It was dusk when Eric got back to the museum. He landed the aircar and climbed out and walked across to the building, still feeling unreal, still not believin
- 1436 "You're a slow one." The old woman paused and waited for him to catch up. "Where've you been all your life? You don't act like a mountain boy.""I'm not," Eric said. "I'm from the valley...."
- 1435 "No. I'm fine."He smiled, looking out through the sunporch wall into the garden. It seemed years and years since he'd pressed his nose to the gla.s.s, watching the b.u.t.terflies. It had been a long time."I've got to get goin
- 1434 It was a new life for Eric. Every day he would go over to Walden's and the two of them would pull back the curtains in the study and Walden would lift down some of the books. It was as if Walden was giving him the past, all of it, as fast as he could
- 1433 Ed slept till noon the next day, got up and cooked a dozen flapjacks and a pound of bacon. After breakfast, he sat around for an hour or so drinking coffee. Then he spent the rest of the afternoon puttering around the cabin.He packed away the snakeproof p
- 1432 Ed stepped back quickly to bring his rifle to bear, but the newest arrival was obviously already dead.He turned his attention back to the larger animal. It, too, was dead now. There was an obvious family resemblance to the smaller one he had shot in the l
- 1431 The old sickness was back. I was lonely. I wanted the other ent.i.ty. I could not, did not wish to exist without the Pat.I darted frantically about the metal sh.e.l.l, here and there, searching, searching. Where was the Pat? I screamed for it. I thought P
- 1430 "I told him of the first orders and ceremonies of war, of warnings and ultimatums, and the marshalling and marching of troops. I gave him an idea of manoeuvres and positions and battle joined. I told him of sieges and a.s.saults, of starvation and ha
- 1429 The eleventh message is undoubtedly only a fragment of a longer communication. After some broken sentences, the record of which is unintelligible, it goes on:-- "But it will interest only linguists, and delay me too long, to give the details of the s
- 1428 I could see clearly that they did not believe one word what I told them, but evidently they considered me the most respectable liar they had ever met. They glanced at one another, and then concentrated the fire of their eyes on me. I fancy they expected a
- 1427 I looked up with a start, and the sky had darkened almost to blackness, and was thick with a gathering mult.i.tude of coldly watchful stars. I looked eastward, and the light of that shrivelled world was touched with sombre bronze; westward, and the sun ro
- 1426 We came out upon this s.p.a.ce at last into a light and heat that hit and pressed upon us. We traversed the exposed area painfully, and clambered up a slope among the scrub stems, and sat down at last panting in a high place beneath the shadow of a ma.s.s
- 1425 We listened. At first it was an indistinct murmur, and then one picked out the clang of a gong. "They must think we are mooncalves," said I, "to be frightened at that.""They're coming along that pa.s.sage," said Cavor.&q
- 1424 "It's dark enough.""But where?""Up one of these side caverns.""And then?""Think." "Right--come on."We strode on, and presently came to a radiating dark cavern. Cavor was in front. He hesitat
- 1423 I turned on the goad-bearer behind me with a swift threatening gesture, and he started back. This and Cavor's sudden shout and leap clearly astonished all the Selenites. They receded hastily, facing us. For one of those moments that seem to last for
- 1422 When he spoke again it was to confess, "After all, they are more human than we had a right to expect. I suppose--"He stopped irritatingly."Yes?""I suppose, anyhow--on any planet where there is an intelligent animal--it will carry
- 1421 "We dare risk nothing!""We dare do nothing until we find the sphere!""We _can_ do nothing until we find the sphere."He a.s.sented with a groan and stirred himself to move. He stared about him for a s.p.a.ce, sighed, and indic
- 1420 I stood pa.s.sive and panting, allowing him to beat off the jelly from my knees and elbows and lecture me upon my misfortunes. "We don't quite allow for the gravitation. Our muscles are scarcely educated yet. We must practise a little, when you
- 1419 Clutching at one another we spun about, pitched this way and that, our bale of packages leaping at us, pounding at us. We collided, we gripped, we were torn asunder--our heads met, and the whole universe burst into fiery darts and stars! On the earth we s
- 1418 Chapter 5.The Journey to the Moon Presently Cavor extinguished the light. He said we had not overmuch energy stored, and that what we had we must economise for reading. For a time, whether it was long or short I do not know, there was nothing but blank da
- 1417 "They're out of the question, because of the air difficulty.""Why not apply that idea of spring blinds--Cavorite blinds in strong steel cases--to lifting weights?""It wouldn't work," he insisted. "After all, to
- 1416 I stuck like a leech to the "we"--"you" and "I" didn't exist for me.His idea was that the profits I spoke of might go to endow research, but that, of course, was a matter we had to settle later. "That's all rig
- 1415 Chapter 1.Mr. Bedford Meets Mr. Cavor at Lympne As I sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine-leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astonishment that my partic.i.p.ation in these amazing adventures
- 1414 "The dormant ones must have a retreat so well hidden that they would not be disturbed during the thousand centuries that must elapse before they could be awakened. The s.h.i.+ning Ones sped back to their base on the North American continent and in th
- 1413 To Talbot's amazement the point of the penknife sank into the wall and in a moment a section of it was gouged out. The professor said tensely, "I've been months in this place, been taken back and forth, and know the lay of the land. This ro
- 1412 "'Don't move,' shouted the Professor."At first I could see nothing. Everything was intensely dark. Then the darkness began to clarify. Or rather I should say it seemed as if the darkness increased to such a pitch that it became--o
- 1411 Well, it's a queer ending. She was in New York, but--you see, Dixon Wells had, so to speak, known Joanna Caldwell by means of the professor's subjunctivisor, but Joanna had never known Dixon Wells. What the ending might have been if--if-- But it
- 1410 A click followed. The light dimmed, then brightened. The picture cleared, and amazingly, another figure emerged, a woman. I recognized her; it was Whimsy White, erstwhile star of television and premiere of the "Vision Varieties of '09." She
- 1409 "I know I'm right," Russell pleaded. "My hunches always been right. My hunch got us out of that prison didn't it? Listen--I tell you it's that star to the left--""The one to the right," said Johnson."We be
- 1408 TO EACH HIS STAR.By Bryce Walton "Nothing around those other suns but ashes and dried blood," old Dunbar told the s.p.a.ce-wrecked, desperate men. "Only one way to go, where we can float down through the clouds to Paradise. That's stra
- 1407 When there was no longer any movement, he sat up and pried open the man's jaws, thrusting his fingers into the mouth and jerking out the artificial larynx. The next time he would hear Putsyn's real voice, and maybe that would trigger his memory.
- 1406 In the morning light, he sat up and put his hand on her. She smiled in her sleep and squirmed closer. There were compensations for being n.o.body, he supposed, and this was one of them. He got up quietly and dressed without waking her. There were a number
- 1405 In the morning, he knew he had been here before. In the darkness he had chosen unknowingly but also unerringly. This was the place in which he had been retrogressed.It was here that the police had picked him up.The counselor looked sleepily out of the scr
- 1404 "Is it important?" asked the counselor softly. "This happens to many people, you know, and some of them do find out who they were, with or without our help. But this is not simple amnesia. No one who's been retroed can resume his forme
- 1403 "h.e.l.l, the mists are clearing," Luke snarled. "You ain't so d.a.m.n smart as you think."What he said was true. Though there was less light on account of the new angle with the sun farther below the horizon, the red mist was def
- 1402 The guard, white with rage, indicated Luke."So--the tough guy Fenton again. Can't you handle him?"Kulan's yellow eyes flashed fire. "Sure I can; I will. But I want your permission, sir. With my hands.""No,"--flatly.
- 1401 VULCAN'S WORKSHOP.By Harl Vincent Savagely cursing, Luke Fenton reeled backward from the porthole, his great hairy paws clapped over his eyes. No one had warned him, and he did not know that total blindness might result from gazing too earnestly into
- 1400 "That's just what it is." Paula savagely flung her cigarette to the floor. Her own disguise, the one concealing her true, ruthless self, was gone. Her voice was cold and harsh. "How much do you know, Harry? How much?"Harry folded
- 1399 But she did not mention the seven men. That was the smart approach, Harry ventured. She'd save that until she got home and slipped into something more comfortable.He stood alone in Paula's living room nursing a scotch on the rocks. The night bef
- 1398 "Oh, Miss Ralston doesn't run an agency. She told me. Her business is much more exclusive than that. She handles very highly specialized people. That's the reason why ...""I know. That's why you gave her an appointment with m
- 1397 In the seventh Frankie noticed a little desperation in Monroe's tactics. To win now Monroe and Gordon needed a knockout. Frankie had only to stay on his feet to be home safe. But when was Milt going to let him go? Milt had turned in a masterpiece of
- 1396 "I don't see anything alive.""There are still plenty of fish. Most of them did all right, even through the crash. Come along now. There's more to see."A hidden door popped open and Garth stepped back into the corridor. He tro
- 1395 "It is all bad," I said, "very bad--but necessary." I turned to Langley. "It is said that your present survey is being made with the purpose of condemning all of Phobos, the dead and the living alike, to the blast furnaces and the
- 1394 Imagine, if you can, an endless vista of death, a sea of rusting corpses of s.p.a.ce s.h.i.+ps, and worn-out mining machinery, and of those of my race whose power packs burned out, or who simply gave up, retiring into this endless, corroding limbo of the
- 1393 "Ouch!" I yelped, rubbing the spot. "What are you doing?""You humans are a proud race," Brknk explained. "I'll give you reason to be prouder than the rest. We'll change your metabolism, your endocrine balance,
- 1392 During the two erratic years I had been on the newspaper, I had pa.s.sed the city park every morning on my way to work, feeling an envy for those who had nothing better to do than sit on the benches and contemplate the nature of the Universe. Now I took m
- 1391 "I wish you would begin by doing something about the climate," Narli thought. It was stupid of him not to have realized how hot it would be on Earth. He was really going to suffer in this torrid climate; especially in the tight Terrestrial costu
- 1390 Eddie Tamoto called, "Hey, Max, we'd like to get 'em in the center of the cage for a shot." He was gesturing from the camera boom seat. "Only moving around. You know--looking fierce.""Can you do it, Flaubert?" said
- 1389 "Now, then, Mr. Untz," he said, "the first thing we must do is come to terms.""Just a minute," said Harold. "I'm Mr. Untz's a.s.sistant, Harold Potter. Mr. Untz is in the shower. Was he expecting you?"Dr.
- 1388 And, of course, certain machines were living. This followed, since the watchbirds were machines and living.G.o.d help you if you maltreated your radio. Turning it off meant killing it. Obviously--its voice was silenced, the red glow of its tubes faded, it
- 1387 "Oh, I don't know about that. They just have to be told that some things which look like murder are not murder.""But why should they stop fisherman?" Gelsen asked."Why shouldn't they? Fish and animals are living organism
- 1386 "Look, I'm no scientist or engineer. I've just handled cost and production and let you boys worry about how. But as a layman, watchbird is starting to frighten me.""No reason for that.""I don't like the idea of the
- 1385 Strange how often the Millennium has been at hand. The idea is peace on Earth, see, and the way to do it is by figuring out angles.When Gelsen entered, he saw that the rest of the watchbird manufacturers were already present. There were six of them, not c
- 1384 To Lonnie, the many-acred enclosure meant nothing with its s.h.i.+mmering, stone-lace pillars, its tapestries that flamed with color or traced ghostlike, barely discernible outlines on the walls. Nor did any thought enter his mind of the exactness of the
- 1383 Nothing. Placid. Tree-shadowed, lawn-swept streets, ebony and silver in the light the moon reflected from solar s.p.a.ce.He'd missed. Too late. Lonnie was gone ... or was he?Jason didn't give himself time to think; his men time to get even a mom
- 1382 The pounding of the jets matched the pounding of the blood in Scott's temples. "When we land," he instructed, "get this crate out fast. Everything depends on how fast you can take the cats down to the pit. I want you to bury it as fast
- 1381 "No more shooting," the heavy voice of the tall man growled. "You Bertha people. Can you hear me?""Yes," Scott said coldly. His eyes probed the shadows for motion."We're willing to be peaceful about this. I'm C
- 1380 It was up to Jerill to think fast ... to do something ... before those strange beasts sucked away the last purified ore on the freighter Bertha.A shouting wave of men rioted through the engine room.From the bridge above the hulking atomics, Chief Engineer
- 1379 "n.o.body's making him a star," Hersch.e.l.l cut in, "he was born one."Hersch.e.l.l had spoken with such honest emphasis that Lemson replied, greatly subdued, "Okay, okay, but we have ourselves a pretty shaky investment if ev
- 1378 "Ah guess," Robina said. She cast a sheepish glance at her brother. "Say Jason, how did the feelie end up?"Jason was indignant. "Now listen, Robee, ain't you had enough? You heard the doc say that last was like to kill you.&q
- 1377 The Captain glanced down at the screen again. An orangish glow was suffusing the alien s.h.i.+p. A jet slipped in for a rocket shot. The glow pulsed, expanded, touched the jet, and the plane vanished into a rain of wreckage that sped towards the ocean bel
- 1376 "What do you mean, you're not sure?" His voice was a little sharper than he intended, a little more querulous than he had meant it to be. It was, he thought, the voice of an old man, annoyed at having his sleep disturbed.The younger man was
- 1375 It was difficult to separate various concepts and orient herself to a present where and when.Slowly the soft susurrus background song of the big wheel penetrated consciousness, and another, closer roar. Millie taking a shower, she realized.Suddenly she ca
- 1374 In the machine shop, Mike was rummaging around in one of the tool lockers. "Any sort of a small telescope," he muttered, almost to himself. Then "Paul, is there a theodolite or anything like that left lying around in here?""Yes,&q
- 1373 "You will swing the rim of the wheel into that alignment as rapidly as it can possibly be done." The captain's voice practically lifted the two men off the bridge, and they were on their way to the engineering quarters with every appearance
- 1372 Major Elbertson pulled himself to a military stance, returning his aide's salute with complete precision.Briefly he considered gathering all his men, all the Security personnel, and storming the bridge.No, obviously the enemy was organized--an unfore
- 1371 "Perhaps I wasn't considering pole faces," Is.h.i.+e answered. "Our investigation has already shown that once initiated the thrust-effect works best in a very low magnetic field."Such a low, parallel magnetic field would quite pro
- 1370 Is.h.i.+e turned, glanced at the panel, and went over to the switch, pus.h.i.+ng it. "I wondered how you were concealing the teletype," he said. "You mean you really talk to it?"The Sacred Cow's voice came back. "Reference no
- 1369 "No-o-o," came the placid reply."If it's pulling us south, then why--" He stopped himself. Any "why" required inductive reasoning, and of that the Cow was not capable. Instead of asking why they were moving north with a
- 1368 Through the door nearly catapulted the first of the Project Hot Rodders, followed almost on his heels by twelve more."Where is Major Elbertson?""In sick bay, sir. He got a big radiation dose--"The captain flipped the intercom key."
- 1367 Displays of the various labs in the rim moved restlessly across most of the thirty-six channels of the computer's video displays, as Bessie scanned about, searching for dangerously loose equipment or personnel that might somehow have been left behind
- 1366 As he spoke, Mike's finger moved nearer a k.n.o.b-headed bolt that seemed to be one of the two holding the gla.s.s device to its mounting board, and an inch and a half spark spat forth and interrupted the dissertation with a loud "Yipe!"&qu
- 1365 But perhaps the combination was not so strange, for Tombu, also, was of the aristocracy--an aristocracy that could perhaps be measured in terms of years extending far behind the comparable times for any European aristocracy.Tombu was Swahili, a minor king
- 1364 "No, you don't" Bessie said severely. "No, you don't. They need an alert, and I need to finish the programming on Sad Cow to be sure this thing doesn't wobble enough to shake us all apart. Even at a half RPM, your seams might
- 1363 "Don't you think it's about time he called us?" Ted asked."Don't be so impatient. He's a big man. He owns a big company. It takes time.""He's had over a month.""Relax. We'll hear from him.&q
- 1362 "Now look here, Fisher, if this is some sort of a gag, I'll see that....""No, sir," Harry repeated strenuously, "I really mean the question."The colonel glanced back over his shoulder into the house. He turned back to th
- 1361 Jed squinted down the sights and carefully squeezed off a shot. A ragged volley followed down the line. Jed was in position Number Eighteen and down range, his target atop a large painted sign bearing the same number, dropped. Jed rolled over and yelled a
- 1360 Getting a flashlight, he found his rifle, sticking muzzle-down in the mud a little behind and to the right of the jeep, and swore briefly in the local Fourth Level idiom, for Verkan Vall was a man who loved good weapons, be they sigma-ray needlers, neutro
- 1359 "Sectors are areas of paratime on any level in which the prevalent culture has a common origin and common characteristics. They are divided more or less arbitrarily into sub-sectors. Belts are areas within sub-sectors where conditions are the result
- 1358 "That there heifer was worth two hund'rd, two hund'rd an' fifty dollars!" he clamored. "An' that there dog was just like one uh the fam'ly; An' now look at'm! I don't like t' use profane language
- 1357 On the street below, the night air was suddenly full of voices, chattering, intermingled with whispers of song and occasional brief harmonic flutterings. The footfalls were muted on the polished pavement as the people pa.s.sed slowly, their voices carryin
- 1356 "There is a steady leak here, Doctor," he said. "I get a discharge in eleven minutes.""Probably a result of his work in opening the hiding place for his submarine last night. Keep it charged, Jones.""What did you say abo