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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
- 1155 It was not many to be the beginnings of a race that would face an ice age of unknown proportions and have over them, always, the threat of a chance return of the Gerns.The winter of the fifteenth year came and he was truly alone, the last of the Old Ones.
- 1154 There was the laughter of children at play, a sound that had not been heard for many months, and someone singing the old, old songs. For a few fleeting hours that day, for the first and last time on Ragnarok, there was the magic of an Earth Christmas.That
- 1153 "Have you obeyed Chiara's order?" he asked."Ah--no," Bemmon said. "I felt it best to ignore it.""Why?" Lake asked."It would be a senseless waste of our small supply of fruit and vegetable foods to give the
- 1152 Then the new peril appeared, the one they had not expected: the unicorns.The stockade wall was a blue-black rectangle behind them and the blue star burned with the brilliance of a dozen moons, lighting the woods in blue shadow and azure light. Prentiss an
- 1151 Prentiss went on, to make the rounds of the guards. When he returned he saw that his order had been obeyed.The prowlers lay in the snow as before, their savage faces still twisted in their dying snarls, but snug and warm inside them babies slept.The prowl
- 1150 The warning cry came from an outer guard and black shadows were suddenly sweeping out of the dark dawn.They were things that might have been half wolf, half tiger; each of them three hundred pounds of incredible ferocity with eyes blazing like yellow fire
- 1149 Tarnhorst shook his head briskly. "No. We can't execute Fergus. Impossible.""Of course not," Morgan said soothingly. "I don't suggest that you should. But I do suggest that Mr. Fergus be very careful about going through
- 1148 "Oh, I'm a whiz," Morgan agreed. "But I thought the Welfare World took care of its poor, misled criminals better than this."Again the chuckle. "You shoulda robbed a bank or killed somebody. Then theyda given you a nice rehabi
- 1147 "Which just goes to show you," said Harry Morgan, picking up the key.He turned casually, took one or two steps away from the registration desk, then--quite suddenly--did an about-face and snapped: "What happened to Jack Latrobe?""
- 1146 Dr. Frank touched a b.u.t.ton on the bedside panel, and the upper portion of the bed rose smoothly at an angle. "Better?""Fine. Much better.""You were saying--""Yeah. About Matt Fisher. He has to know. He'll guess e
- 1145 "Sincerity," said Governor Spanding. "That's what's lacking. He hasn't got it, and the voters can feel it.""He managed to be elected President of the United States on it," Senator Cannon said dryly.Spanding did
- 1144 When the connection was cut, Cannon grinned at Matthew Fisher. "That's it. We've saved a s.h.i.+p. It can be repaired where it is without a fleet of Soviet moon-cats prowling around and interfering. And we've scotched any attempts at p
- 1143 "h.e.l.l yes, he is," the governor said. "Tops. I've seen his record as State Attorney General and as Lieutenant Governor. And when Governor Dinsmore died three years ago, Fisher did a fine job filling out his last year. But--"&qu
- 1142 She looked at him coolly for almost a minute. "All right, Frank," she said quietly. "Follow your nose. It's just liable to be right on the beam--for you. I might follow mine. I don't know.""Joe and Two-and-Two are around
- 1141 Nelsen looked at the fifty-odd stellene rings that they had broken out of their containers--the others, still packed, were held in reserve. Those that had been freed glistened translucently in the sunlight. Nelsen had always thought that bubbs were beauti
- 1140 Reclining in another lawn chair beside his was Nance, her eyes closed, her face thin and pale. He was frightened--until he remembered, somehow, that she was nearly as well as he was. Beyond her was a doorway, leading into what seemed a small, modern kitch
- 1139 Art Kuzak stared at him. "You d.a.m.ned, independent b.u.ms--you, too, Nelsen!" he began to growl. But when he saw Nelsen's jaw harden, he got the point, and grinned, instead. "Okay, Frank. n.o.body's indispensible. I might do the
- 1138 "Two-and-Two's back in Jarviston, then?" Nelsen demanded."No--not anymore--just gimme breath," Hines went on. "He and Charlie had figured another destination of opportunity--Mercury, the planet nearest the sun, everlasting fr
- 1137 "Settled, then?" Art asked."Here, it is," Ramos answered, and Nelsen nodded.It would have been rough going for them to try to sleep in beds. They had lost the habit. They slept inside their new Archer Fives.Afterwards they painted thei
- 1136 "Okay. Shut up it is!" Ramos answered him.So they stayed silent until they couldn't stand that, either. Everything was getting on their nerves.Their next asteroids were mere chips a foot long--core fragments of the planet, heavy metals that
- 1135 It hardly mattered what else they said. Maybe it was fifteen hours later that Frank Nelsen found himself walking along a stellene-covered causeway, looking for Left Foot Gimp Hines. He had memories of a tiny room, very neat and compact, with even a single
- 1134 So here was another force of Frank Nelsen's desperation.He made up his mind--which perhaps just then was a bit mad.With outward calm he returned to camp, slept, worked, slept and worked again. He decided that there was no help to be had from Lester,
- 1133 This theory about the lunar atmosphere had proven to be correct. The tiny density was still sufficient to give the Moon almost as effective an atmospheric meteor screen as the Earth's. The relatively low velocity needed to maintain vehicles in circ.u
- 1132 "So that's the way it goes," Charlie Reynolds commented profoundly. "We reach out for strangeness. Then we try to make it as familiar as home.""Stew, warmed in the cans, too," Ramos declared. "Enough for a light one
- 1131 Along the highway there were arrows and signs. When the trucks had labored to the top of a ridge, the s.p.a.ceport installations came into view all at once: Barbed-wire fences, low, olive-drab gate buildings, guidance tower, the magnesium dome of a powerh
- 1130 They all knew then, for sure, what had happened. Right now, Glen Tiflin was wandering alone, somewhere, cursing and suffering. As likely as not, he'd start hitchhiking across the country, to try to get away from himself... Somewhere the test instrume
- 1129 Most of the guys still figured that Charlie Reynolds would solve their money problem. But in late November he had a bad moment. Out in front of Hendricks', he looked at his trim automobile. "It's a cinch I can't use it Out There,"
- 1128 They all crowded around heavy Otto Kramer and his basket--all except Frank Nelsen and Paul Hendricks, and Eileen Sands who made the ancient typewriter click in the little office-enclosure, as she typed up the order list that Nelsen would mail out with a b
- 1127 "Meanwhile, I'm slowly starving," said Barnsley."Just hang on for a couple of days. Now that we know where they are, they're in for a shock. One of these mornings, they're going to hear voices from all over their skies, deman
- 1126 This was it. This was where the other four s.h.i.+ps like the XXE-1--the radio controlled models--had disintegrated. This was where it happened, and they didn't come back anymore.I sucked in oxygen and let the accelerator control go over all the way.
- 1125 The Doll's father was there already behind his desk, studying something as I came in. He looked up, smiled, said, "Hi, guy."I flipped a finger at him. I wondered if the Doll had told him about last night."Wife and I were going to sugge
- 1124 "Stake your mom's Charleston cup on that," I said.She nodded. Her one-sided grin seemed to fade slightly but she hooked it up again fast. A doll--like I said. This was the original model, they've never gone into production on girls lik
- 1123 When we were going back to sleep, Nina told me she had wondered why Theodor slept each time near someone else. He had probably thought by taking a little from each one of us, his stealing would not be noticed.Seventeenth Awake, 18 Juli 2207 The awakes and
- 1122 The hatch of the s.h.i.+p clanged shut. The bolts fell into place. Hendricks made his way back. The inner door was being sealed. He raised the pistol unsteadily.There was a shattering roar. The s.h.i.+p burst up from its metal cage, fusing the mesh behind
- 1121 "Is the s.h.i.+p near here?" Ta.s.so slid over beside him, settling down on her haunches. "How far is it? Where is it?""I'm trying to think."Her fingers dug into his arm. "Nearby?" Her voice was like iron. &quo
- 1120 She threw the bomb. It sailed in an arc, an expert, rolling and bouncing to the entrance of the bunker. Two Wounded Soldiers stood uncertainly by the brick pile. More Davids poured from behind them, out onto the plain. One of the Wounded Soldiers moved to
- 1119 "You couldn't tell it was a machine? It talked like a living person? You never suspected?""It didn't say much. I noticed nothing unusual."It's strange, machines so much like people that you can be fooled. Almost alive. I
- 1118 Ta.s.so swept the curtain aside. "Klaus! What did you do?"Klaus turned from the charred form, gradually sinking down the wall onto the floor. "The Second Variety, Ta.s.so. Now we know. We have all three types identified. The danger is less.
- 1117 "What?""This, the new types. The new varieties of claws. We're completely at their mercy, aren't we? By now they've probably gotten into the UN lines, too. It makes me wonder if we're not seeing the beginning of a now sp
- 1116 "No.""Why, then?"David did not answer. He plodded carefully along behind, picking his way over the ash. His legs and shoes were gray with dust. His pinched face was streaked, lines of gray ash in riverlets down the pale white of his sk
- 1115 And then the first claws appeared. And overnight the complexion of the war changed.The claws were awkward, at first. Slow. The Ivans knocked them off almost as fast as they crawled out of their underground tunnels. But then they got better, faster and mor
- 1114 Doc Feldman nodded slowly as he let her go. He was a fool. He had always been a fool, and always would be. And that was why he could never take over leaders.h.i.+p here. Fools and idealists should never govern a world. It took practical men such as Jake t
- 1113 He winced as Chris took a tiny bit of flesh from his neck. She went to the other men, and then submitted to his work on herself. Then she began preparing the slides."Feldman," she read the name of the slide as she inserted it into the microscope
- 1112 The new laboratory was still being fitted when they arrived. It had been dug into one of the few real cliffs in this section of Mars. The power plant had been installed, complete with a steam plant that would operate off sunlight in the daytime through a
- 1111 It was Everts' turn to shake his head. "I'm sorry, Dr. Feldman. I have orders to burn out your cabin when you leave. But thank you." He got to his feet and left as quietly and erectly as he had entered.Doc tore up his notes bitterly. H
- 1110 The filaments were there, clear and distinct.He turned on the little tape recorder that had been part of Chris' equipment and set the microphone where he could dictate into it without stopping to make clumsy notes. He readjusted the focus carefully,
- 1109 Doc got up shakily, not daring to believe fully what he had heard. He started toward Jake, trying to avoid b.u.mping into Chris. But she would not be avoided. She stood in front of him, screaming accusations and threats that reminded him of the only fight
- 1108 The concealed door broke open suddenly and a boy thrust his head in. "Doc, there's a man here from Einstein. Says his wife's dying."The man was already coming into the room."She's powerful sick, Doc. Had a bellyache, fever, b
- 1107 "Art Billing's card!" Ben told the other tubemen. "Five trips I made with Art. He was saving his money, going to buy a farm on Mars. Five trips and one more to go before he had enough. Now you show up with his ticket!"The tubemen
- 1106 The doctor turned back at last to the attendant. "Too late. The best I can do is ease his pain. The call should have been made half an hour earlier."He had obviously never handled s.p.a.ce-stomach before. He administered a hypo that probably hel
- 1105 He had no recognizable modus operandi, changing his methods with each new crime. He never left a clue. But, in bravado, he signed his name to every job: his monicker flattered him, and after each malefaction the victim--usually a government agency, a gian
- 1104 Gibson, characteristically, had a refinement to offer."They'll be alerted down there for a reconnaissance sally," he said. "Why not let Xavier take the scouter down for overt diversion, and drop Arthur off in the helihopper for a low-l
- 1103 I got up, feeling worse than I'd ever felt in my life. "Come on," I said. "Let's see what happens."As if there was any doubt about what was bound to happen.We stepped out onto the porch and over to the rail. Behind us, I hear
- 1102 Buck looked at the little guy's fancy clothes and small mustache and grinned. "Come on," he said to me, and picked up his drink and started across the floor. "Find out who the dude is."He pulled out a chair and sat down--and I saw
- 1101 "It's awful fast, Buck.""I just think, and my gun is there in my hand. Some draw, huh!""Sure is.""You're d.a.m.n right it is, Doolin. Faster'n anybody!"I didn't know what his gabbling about "
- 1100 Golden Age of Science Fiction.Vol X.by Various.THE RECORD OF CURRUPIRA.By Robert Abernathy From ancient Martian records came the grim song of a creature whose very existence was long forgotten.James Dalton strode briskly through the main exhibit room of
- 1099 "I heard what you said, Hugh. You convinced them."He nodded. "I wonder why it took me so long to think of it."The voices died away behind them. They were all alone. They rounded a corner where a viewscreen picked up the image of the mo
- 1098 They looked. For a long time they stared, none of them speaking, and then they turned to Hugh, many of them accusingly, as if he himself had rearranged the stars."How long have we been gone?" Carhill's voice broke.Hugh shook his head. The s
- 1097 "Fascinating! d.a.m.nedest thing I've ever seen," Candle said."What's so fascinating?" Fromer asked suspiciously, moving closer."His belly. Never saw anything like it. Those black squares keep appearing and disappearing.
- 1096 CMD GENERAL.CMD GENERAL.FROMER ADVISES TELL YOU s.h.i.+PS PHYSICIAN HAS PUT R'THAGNA BAR IN REFRIGERATOR.QUEMOS.SEC HDQ QUEMOS. COM. RLY. 43.4SC. TAKE OUT OF REFRIGERATOR! THIS AN ORDER! WHY UNDRESSED?.CMD GENERAL.CMD GENERAL.BULLARD MAKING MODEL OF
- 1095 "I don't allow emergencies on the Euclid Queen," said Fromer with growing anger. "Now, if you don't--"Hansen spared himself the indignity of being cut off. He broke contact himself. He sighed, reached for a book ent.i.tled Em
- 1094 However, I must have made myself partially understood, at least, for the chief of the nine uttered a whispered command to one of the beings who had borne us to the large cavern, and motioned with a writhing gesture of one tentacle that I was to place the
- 1093 It was Kincaide. He was peering over what had been the top of the doorway, and he was probably the most disreputable-looking officer who had ever worn the blue-and-silver uniform of the Service. His nose was b.l.o.o.d.y and swollen to twice its normal siz
- 1092 "A field of meteorites sweeping into our path, sir." Kincaide's voice was tense. "I have altered our course as much as I dared and am reducing speed at emergency rate, but this is the largest swarm of meteorites I have ever seen. I am
- 1091 Nothing.Except where else could you get twelve-fifty an hour soldering?She was stretched out on the couch in the restroom lobby taking a short nap--on company time, old Liverlips being tied up with the new girls down at the other end of the line--when Riu
- 1090 Riuku listened to her half of the conversation. Stupid Earthman. If only she'd start thinking about the job. Or if only his contact with her were better. If he could use her sense perceptions, see through her eyes, hear through her ears, feel through
- 1089 "Look down," the visitor commanded Mersey. "Shut your eyes. Don't let him see me."But Mersey continued to be held by the doctor's eyes. The visitor cowered back into the crazed mental tangle.Gradually, then, his fear ebbed. T
- 1088 It was George's day off and he was going fis.h.i.+ng. Humming to himself, he got out his reel and flies and other paraphernalia and contentedly arranged them in the back of his car. Visions of the fine, quiet time he was going to have went through Ge
- 1087 Observers at Flagstaff have, therefore, practically seen the completion of a work which is the creation of intelligent beings on Mars; and in the remarkable photographs shown we were, so to speak, able to look upon the results of that work--fertility in a
- 1086 ADDENDUM.(Written by John Yiewsley Claxton, Esq., of Norbury, in the County Borough of Croydon, Surrey) In accordance with the desire of my old friend, Wilfrid Poynders, I am now about to publish the book which was handed to me by Merna on the morning of
- 1085 We were fully aware that this was the case, for we were received with kindness and welcome wherever we went.Merna's affection for me seemed unbounded, and his love was shown in every action. Yet, like all the other Martians, he was never obtrusively
- 1084 CHAPTER XXV.MANY THINGS SEEN UPON MARS--I RECEIVE SOME NEWS.During the remainder of our stay upon Mars we visited almost every important place upon the planet, either by means of air-s.h.i.+ps, motors, or by travelling along the main ca.n.a.ls in splendid
- 1083 "Yes, certainly I should," replied M'Allister."Now," I continued, "suppose that the other vessel, instead of being at rest, was moving away from you at the rate of six miles an hour; after you had steamed one hour it would st
- 1082 These locks and weirs are all within the area enclosed by the embankments forming the carets, which accounts for the long and extensive s.p.a.ce the latter cover, as the locks are necessarily a considerable distance apart from each other to allow for a le
- 1081 WE ATTEND A MARTIAN BANQUET.On our arrival at the banqueting-hall we were most cordially received by Soranho, as Chief of the Council, who introduced us to a number of persons, several of whom were high officers of state; but, as only two or three of them
- 1080 "Oh yes, sir," replied he, again smiling; "you are anxious to know whether we really possess an elaborate system of ca.n.a.lisation upon Mars, and I can soon set your mind at rest upon that point. Indeed, it was in order to make arrangement
- 1079 "It is too long a story to narrate now," he replied, "for we have a duty to perform, and must not stay here. We must now show ourselves to the people outside, who have long waited to greet you! You shall hear more to-night; but, in the mean
- 1078 "I was therefore much amused in reading an effusion by one critic who, in discussing the question of the ca.n.a.l lines, remarked that he could not accept 'these one-man discoveries,' oblivious of the fact that they are the discoveries of m
- 1077 In all these maps the south is at the top. The dark shaded portions are vegetation, mostly on old sea-beds. The fine lines are the ca.n.a.ls, and the round dots the oases. The light areas are deserts. Longitude "0" is seen on the Equator between
- 1076 Things were really becoming very serious indeed, and I saw that something must be done at once to put an end to this disturbance. So, going over to M'Allister, I took him gently by the shoulders and pushed him out of the room, saying quietly, "G
- 1075 "Do you think the moon is inhabited?" he then asked."No, I do not think it is; no sign of life has ever been discovered, and we have seen nothing to indicate its existence here. The prevailing conditions seem to preclude the possibility. Th
- 1074 "You will notice a very large number of peaks in this and the other neighbouring ranges--in fact, several thousands have been marked on our large maps."Cutting diagonally in a north-westerly direction, completely through the Alps, you will notic
- 1073 I accordingly gave M'Allister the order to switch on the power gradually, up to our full speed, and it was not long before we were rus.h.i.+ng through s.p.a.ce at the rate of over eighty-three thousand miles an hour. At this rate, as I told them, we
- 1072 In the course of my experience as an occasional lecturer during the past twelve years, I have been much impressed by the keen interest evinced, even by the most unlettered persons, when astronomical subjects are dealt with in plain untechnical language wh
- 1071 Ten hours between McCann's death and Karpin's departure for Chemisant City. He'd admitted that already. And I was willing to bet he'd spent at least part of that time carrying McCann's body to some other asteroid, one he was sure
- 1070 "That's it," I answered frankly.He shook his head. "I wouldn't get too excited about that, if I were you," he said. "It wouldn't be the first time it's happened. A man makes the big strike after all, and he get
- 1069 "I've heard of it," I said truthfully. "That's about all."He nodded. "Most of the policies are sold off-planet, of course. It's a form of insurance for non-insurables. s.p.a.ces.h.i.+p crews, asteroid prospectors, p
- 1068 "Then for Heaven's sake, marry the girl! I don't care what chorus she kicks in, marry her and act like a human being again.""I--can't.""Oh. She's already married, eh?"Well, I couldn't tell him she did
- 1067 "Why?""Well, the pattern it's set for is the shape of an automobile. See here." He picked up a card from his desk, and cut in the outlines of a streamlined car like those of that year. "Since only one eye is used," he co
- 1066 He nodded."Not seeing your--shadow--!""Yes.""And the full moon. A fear of the full moon, too?""But how did you know?" "And you're allergic to certain metals, too. For instance--silver?"He could only n
- 1065 "Good. The sooner the better. And you just forget about this queen as soon as you are able. She's a peach, of course, but not for you. There's lots more back in little old New York." But Frank had no reply to this sally.There came a kn
- 1064 "You think we are in friendly hands?""These quarters do not look much like prison cells, Tommy, but I must admit that we are locked in. Anyhow, I'm not worrying, and we will soon learn our fate and have to be ready to meet it. The peop
- 1063 Frank was a careful driver, and three hours were required to make the sixty-mile journey. Consequently, it was late in the afternoon when they arrived at the old DeBost estate. It had stopped snowing, but the drifts were deep in spots, and Frank soon foun
- 1062 The thought of being sued softened Mr. Cruthers' att.i.tude. "Well, I'm very sorry, pal, but every contingent in this parade is listed on my clipboard and you're not. I know this list by heart. What did you say the name of your group w
- 1061 "Sure.""Okay then. They happened to be close to earth, so they went into an orbit around it and studied it for a while on radio and TV bands, and realized they might be able to get help without using their emergency fuel--uranium, incidenta
- 1060 Wayne considered the situation.Two hours to get to earth. No radio. The big Cirissin s.h.i.+p was circling earth at an unknown distance, unknown speed and unknown direction. And although the s.h.i.+p was enormous, it would be impossible to spot it from ea
- 1059 HIGH DRAGON b.u.mP.By Don Thompson If it took reduction or torch hair, the Cirissins wanted a b.u.mp. Hok.u.m, thistle, gluck.A young and very beautiful girl with golden blond hair and smooth skin the color of creamed sweet potatoes floated in the middle
- 1058 "Whatever the cause, it's the perfect result," Johnson conceded. "We'll spread it through the net.""Along with this, I hope." Wendell dumped the contacts on a table top. "It's the smallest size possible. A
- 1057 "The thing could have gobbled up the city if there hadn't been a second slagger!" said a lone pa.s.serby."Nonsense," Burnett muttered under his breath. "You know that, Hart. Any self-regulating mechanism reaches a check limit
- 1056 Was this joy--or a cold coming on? I s.h.i.+fted uneasily on the hospital bed and scratched at an itch on my left hip. Ouch! It was a pimple. My head ached. My throat hurt. I itched. Julia was dead. The police were coming. I was alone. What should I do?&q