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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
- 955 Muller had walked forward. Now his fist lashed out, and Grundy crumpled. He lay still for a second, then got to his feet unsteadily. Jenny screamed, but Muller moved steadily back to his former place without looking at the mate. Grundy hesitated, fumbled
- 954 "Canaries," Muller said. He frowned, though he must have known of them. It was traditional to keep them in the engine-room, though the reason behind it had long since been lost. "Better kill them, Mr. Wilc.o.x."Wilc.o.x jerked, and his
- 953 Pietro and I exchanged glances, but I guess we weren't surprised. Among intelligent people on a s.h.i.+p of that size, secrets wouldn't keep. They'd all put bits together and got part of the answer. Pietro shrugged, and half stood up to mak
- 952 "You can take your d.a.m.ned whole wheat and stuff it--" I started. Then I shrugged and dropped it. There were enough feuds going on aboard the cranky old Wahoo! "Seen Jenny this morning, Phil?"He studied me insolently. "She told
- 951 A little later Ethel came out into the moonlight and shut the trailer door behind her. She looked rumpled and beaten, her hair straggling damply on her shoulders and her eyes puffed and red from crying. The gin she'd had hadn't helped any either
- 950 Kendall made a change. For the first time there came the staccato bark of the material engine under strain, as it fas.h.i.+oned the terrific fields of "Uncertainty of the Ultimate Degree." Abruptly they leapt out, invisible till they entered a m
- 949 The Mirans were experts at camouflage. Deenmor Station, realizing the menace, immediately rayed the "projector." They tore up a great deal of harmless rock with their huge UV rays. But the bomb device continued to throw one bomb each five second
- 948 Finally, a brief test-attack was made, with an entire fleet of one hundred s.h.i.+ps. They drew almost into position, faster than light, faster than the signaling warnings could send their messages. In position, all those great s.h.i.+ps strained and heav
- 947 "No. Nearly four centuries old--twentieth century physics. I'll have to try some other line of attack, I guess, but that did seem so darned right. It just sounded right. Something ought to happen--and it just keeps saying 'nothing more exce
- 946 "Dougla.s.s--ah, you're through. Get on the trail of MacBride, and get him and his crew to work making half a dozen smaller things like this. Tell 'em they can leave off the tungsten s.h.i.+eld. I want different metals in the receiver of ea
- 945 One hundred thousand miles apart, the twin worlds Sthor and Asthor rotated about their common center of gravity, eternally facing each other. Ten million miles from their common center of gravity, Teelan rotated in a vast orbit.Sthor and Asthor were cappe
- 944 Kendall cast a glance over his detector-instruments. The radio network was undisturbed, the magnetic and electric fields recognized only the slight disturbances occasioned by the planet itself. There was nothing, noth-- Five hundred miles away, a gigantic
- 943 The empty skull-pan of the ape awaited the brain of Keller.Bentley could feel the sweat burst forth on him in every pore as he tried to throw off his awful inertia, to go to the aid of Keller. If Barter should see the perspiration on his cheeks....Bentley
- 942 Barter could as easily have had them change places, since he a.s.sumed control of either at will, or could have controlled a score simultaneously. But that would have required additional thought stimulus, and he wished to conserve his mental energies for
- 941 Suddenly Bentley noticed that a solitary man was watching him curiously, a dawning amazement in his face. Bentley roused himself and saw that he was standing against the mesh, fingers hooked into it above his head, his weight on his left leg, his right fo
- 940 Next at Bentley's suggestion--and he talked quickly and eagerly to keep his mind off the ordeal he knew he was facing--Tyler got the curator of the Bronx Zoo out of bed and asked him to wait upon Doctor Tyler immediately.At four o'clock Doctor J
- 939 "Tyler," snapped Bentley, "have everybody fall back beyond earshot."Tyler issued the orders. Bentley shouted, "Quickly, quickly!" knowing he had little time.Then, with Tyler beside him, he knelt beside the ape."I know yo
- 938 "But why the transplantation at all, even if the man is mad? He reasons logically. Only his premises are unthinkable ... and he builds successful ghastly experiments on top of them....""He claims he wishes to build a race of supermen,"
- 937 Tyler nodded and quickly spoke into the telephone on the table at his elbow.The telephone reminded Bentley of Ellen Estabrook.When Tyler had finished issuing pointed instructions Bentley called the residence of the Estabrooks in Astoria, Long Island.Carl
- 936 The long table which ran down the strange room's center was covered with retorts, test tubes, Bunsen burners--all of the stock-in-trade of the scientist who spends most of his time at research work. The man who bent over the table was well past middl
- 935 "Give me a hand!" gasped the officer. "I can't handle 'im without usin' my club and I don't wanna do that. The poor fella don't know what he's a-doin'."Bentley quickly sprang to the patrolman's a
- 934 Chung stirred. "Wait a bit," he said. "We have one of your people aboard, Lieutenant Ziska. Can you send a gig for her?""She didn't collaborate with us," Blades added. "You can see the evidence of her loyalty, all o
- 933 Janichevski stared at the big red-haired man for a long while. Suddenly he stiffened. "O.K. On that account, and no other, I'll go along with you."Blades wobbled on his feet, near collapse with relief. "Good man!" he croaked."
- 932 Hulse nailed Blades with a glance. "Good day, sir," he clipped. "I have had to report a regrettable accident which will require you to evacuate the Station. Temporarily, I hope.""Huh?""As I told Mr. Chung and Miss Page,
- 931 "They talked about how the government had been pouring billions and billions of dollars into s.p.a.ce, while overpopulation produced crying needs in America's back yard," Chung said. "We know that much, even in the Belt. We know the ap
- 930 Golden Age of Science Fiction.Vol IX.by Various.INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.By Poul Anderson Ever think how deadly a thing it is if a machine has amnesia-- or how easily it can be arranged...."Well, yes," Amspaugh admitted, "it was a unique war
- 929 He had drawn taut now, staring at her and fear had come suddenly into his eyes. "Go ask her," Martha said. "She is the one to tell you what I mean, though I had to tell her, myself, this morning. You children," she said, and there was
- 928 Dikar put Marilee down on the bed, and Martha Dawson was beside the bed. Her hand took hold of Marilee's wrist and she seemed to be listening for something, and then she smiled and said, "Her pulse is strong." She put her hand on Marilee�
- 927 The pain within Dikar was as if someone had plunged an arrow into his vitals, was twisting it-- Dikar saw a form, crawling out on a thick bough. It was screened by the leaves at first, then Dikar saw black hair, a thick-lipped face. Tomball! Peering out o
- 926 "You climbed down a rope of vines!" Marilee's hand went to the flowery circlet that covered her breast. "You might have been killed, Dikar!"Dikar nodded. "Yes, I might have been killed, an' I didn't care much whethe
- 925 : THE GUN ON THE ROOF."Who's there?" Dikar cried again, and then the shadows were coming out into the light, and they were Jimlane and Billthomas."Marilee told us you wanted us," Jimlane said. "We waited till everyone was asl
- 924 "Shut up, everybody!" the boss called aloud. "Listen."There was no sound in the clearing, save for the crackle of the fire. For a long time Dikar heard no sound except the crackle of the flames behind him, the tiny noises from the wood
- 923 Froth! Green, billowing froth that grew and boiled and spread unceasingly. In places it reached high into the air, and it moved with an eager, inner life that was somehow terrible and revolting. I moved the range hand back, and the view seemed to drop awa
- 922 "I shall need you here.""But, sir, they are very excited and angry; I have been watching them from the observation ports. And there is a vast crowd of them around the s.h.i.+p.""I had expected that. I thank you for your concern, b
- 921 He paused for a moment, frowning thoughtfully as though dreading to begin. I waited silently, and at last he spoke again."There is a world"--and he named a name which I shall not repeat, the name of the Forgotten Planet--"that is a festerin
- 920 "Well," said Correy grimly, "we'll soon find out. Ready to start back, sir?"I turned to Tipene, who was staring at the packed ma.s.s of Aranians, who choked the tunnel in both directions."Tell them to make way," I comman
- 919 Correy was the last to arrive in the navigating room, and when he came in his eyes were dancing."I've just transferred Tipene to another stateroom, sir," he said. "A specially equipped stateroom.""You what?""If you&
- 918 "Carlos Inverness and party," announced the guard from the doorway.Inverness nodded to me in friendly fas.h.i.+on and indicated his two companions."Commander Hanson," he said, "permit me to present G.o.dar Tipene and Cleve Brady,
- 917 And this is the man who is Kyle the First, Ruler of Terra at the age of thirty-seven! I wonder what he is like now....January 1, 1 New San Francisco There is no longer any need to wonder. Surprisingly few heads have rolled, but apparently Jonesy chooses t
- 916 He closed it behind him and blinked at the huge instrument panel which filled almost the entire room.One of the instruments was a color vision screen, tuned in to a room in which there was a mahogany desk, at which was seated a man in uniform. Behind him
- 915 "I have something to tell you," said Brandon grinning, "about the quantum jump."THE END.DOUBLE TAKE.By Richard Wilson Paul Asher, 27, men's furnis.h.i.+ngs buyer, leaned back and let the cloth band be fastened across his chest, ju
- 914 "Well, sir--""Never mind now. You may have encountered oxygen or hydrogen-rich atmosphere--melted your compressor blades. Try an air start on straight rocket. I want that s.h.i.+p back, Brandon. Repeat, I want that s.h.i.+p back!""
- 913 The drugged drinks acted with startling rapidity. Scarcely a minute pa.s.sed before the rodents' eyes clouded dully, their jaws dropped slackly open, and their bodies stiffened in almost complete rigidity.The bonds were quickly stripped from the two
- 912 He struck it a sharp rap, then recoiled in surprise at the effect of his blow, for the entire egg instantly shattered with a tinkling crash like the bursting of a huge gla.s.s bubble. So complete was the disintegration of the egg and the skeleton within i
- 911 Lilith, weaponless save for stones and her wooden knife, simply huddled at his side as they backed slowly toward the beach. Their progress was maddeningly slow, and Carver began to note apprehensively that the shadows were stretching toward the east, as i
- 910 She stared without comprehension, and he varied his symbolism. "Your home, then?" he pantomimed the act of sleeping.The result was the same, simply a troubled look from her glorious eyes."Now what the devil!" he muttered. "You hav
- 909 "Taboo," Malloa kept whispering. "Him plenty bunyip!""Hope there is," the white man grunted. "I'd hate to go back to Jameson and the others at Macquarie without at least one little bunyip, or anyway a ghost of a fai
- 908 She led them into the lower room that had been the Master's. There she sat idly in a deep chair of ancient craftsmans.h.i.+p, lit a black cigarette at the lamp, and thrust her slim legs carelessly before her, gazing at Hull. But he, staring through t
- 907 "You can't!"She smiled, then in altered tones, "Do you love me, Hull?""Love you? I hate--" He broke off suddenly."Do you hate me, Hull?" she asked gently."No," he groaned at last. "No, I don'
- 906 "Not I, Hull," she murmured. "I never blame a man who weakens because of me--there have been many. Men as strong as you, Hull, and some that the world still calls great." She turned toward her own chamber. "Come in here," she
- 905 There was a curious expression in the face of the conqueror. "Well," he said almost gently, "it was not my intention to torture you, but merely to have you killed for your treason. It may be that you will soon wish that my orders had been l
- 904 For a moment the group halted. Hull seized a yet unheated sword from someone, and turned back. "Come on!" he bellowed. "Come on! We'll have a fight of this yet!"Behind him he heard the trample of feet. The beams flicked out again,
- 903 A voice sounded at his side. "Hull! Big Hull Tarvis.h.!.+ Are you too proud to notice humble folk?"It was Vail Ormiston, her violet eyes whimsical below her smooth copper hair. He flushed; he was not used to the ways of these valley girls, who f
- 902 "Who lived in 'em?" asked Hull."Don't know. Who'd want to live so high up it'd take a full morning to climb there? Unless it was magic. I don't hold much with magic, but they do say the Old People knew how to fly.&q
- 901 "I'm sorry, sir," apologized the manager, "Government orders, you know." And he hung up.Something in that soft voice brought to me an inkling of the truth. An icy hand gripped my heart as I heard a knock at the door. With palsied
- 900 "I'm not telling you," I replied, startled at the fierce fire that flashed from his eyes."I know. I'm just trying to think aloud and I'm liable to say anything. But this sort of business is the work of humans as sure as you&#
- 899 "Good Lord!" I exclaimed. "Do you mean to tell me that we are more than sixteen miles in the air?""Nearly thirty," replied Hart, pointing to another dial which I had not seen. This one was graduated in miles above sea-level,
- 898 THE TERROR OF AIR-LEVEL SIX.By Harl Vincent It was a sweltering evening in mid-August, during that unprecedented heat wave which broke Weather Bureau records in 2011. New York City had simmered under a blazing sun for more than three weeks, and all who we
- 897 The barkeep's face was pure suns.h.i.+ne when he turned to the aliens again. "Gentlemen, with this kind of a subst.i.tute you don't need money in my place. Drink up!""Thank you ex-ceed-ing-ly," said Sartan.Okie arbitrarily ju
- 896 Toryl pointed the small crypterpreter toward the wooden, horseshoe-shaped sign. The sign's legend was carved in bright yellow letters. Sartan, Toryl's companion, watched up and down the open highway for signs of life. In seconds the small cylind
- 895 Emmett had barely finished securing his helmet when the s.h.i.+p shook violently and he was knocked to the floor. The lights fluttered, then went out.When the trembling at last subsided, he struggled to his feet and looked about the room. His eyes gradual
- 894 He said sullenly, "Go to h.e.l.l.""We have ways and means."He said, "Use 'em.""If we said that we mean no harm; if we asked what we could do to prove it, what would be your reply?""Take me back and let me
- 893 Francois, who had been following our inspection tour at shadow's-length, interrupted. I suspected that his timing was no mere coincidence."We will be serving dinner at seven-thirty," he said. "If the lady would care to dress--"&qu
- 892 "Hold on, now," I said. "Leaving the planet, you say. And where would you be going?""There's another committee working on that. 'Tis not our concern. I was inclined to suggest the constellation Orion, which sounds as tho
- 891 "Look, sir." The navigator pointed to the tv screen and a brilliantly clear image of Big Joe s.h.i.+mmering against the galaxy, lit by millions of stars. Every missile port, even the military numerals along her nose were clearly visible."Th
- 890 Gefty hesitated, said, "I thought at first he was furious because we'd upset his plans. But they weren't his plans ... they were the janandra's. He wasn't exactly its servant. I suppose you'd have to say he was something like
- 889 He hadn't wanted to remind Kerim that, from what Maulbow said, there might be more than one reason for getting rid of the control unit as quickly as possible. But it had been constantly in the back of his mind; and twice, in the few minutes that pa.s
- 888 He realized he hadn't really believed his own hunch. But, of course, if it hadn't been an unheard-of outside force that plucked the Queen out of norms.p.a.ce and threw her into this elsewhere, then it must be something Maulbow had put on board.
- 887 Duomart and Calat screamed together. Dasinger drove himself forward off the bench, aiming for the Fleetman's legs, checked and turned for the gun which Calat, staggering and shrieking, his face distorted with lunatic terror, had flung aside. Dr. Egav
- 886 "Getting Hovig's generator shut off is the first step," Dasinger said. "And since we don't know what dosage of the drug is required for each of us, we'd be asking for trouble by approaching the Antares in the s.h.i.+p. Miss M
- 885 "The a.n.a.lysis appears to be fairly accurate," Dr. Egavine acknowledged, "and all detectable trouble sources are covered by the selected Fleet serum."Dasinger said, "We'll prepare for an immediate landing then. There'l
- 884 "Nice piece of piloting," Dasinger observed.Duomart lifted one shoulder in a slight shrug. "That's my job." Her face remained serious. "Are you wondering why I edged us through that thing instead of going around it?"&quo
- 883 "Technically," she agreed, added, "We were arguing about a Fleet matter.""I see. We'll call it mutiny." Dasinger checked to be sure Calat wasn't faking unconsciousness. He inquired, "Do you really need these bo
- 882 "No thank you. If that's all the delay is, it should be cleared soon and we'll be moving again. I'll want to be with my division.""General Kodorovich, you evidently don't understand what has happened. The word that has b
- 881 "Y'ARE GETTIN' WISE WITH ME!" the sergeant roared. "I'll take care of ya later." He thrust Wims into the pit with the machine gun. "Now stay there on that gun 'til I get back. I'm goin' ta find the li
- 880 With the exception of one recruit sitting alone on the front bench and leaning forward with eager interest, the lieutenant observed that his captive audience was utterly unimpressed with his stirring little "thought for today." He knew he could
- 879 "Soap?" I say. "Why, you poor fish, something must have happened to your eyes. When you offered me that straight razor, I thought you'd gone off your nut. Now I know it."The Professor interrupts. He looks excited. "Wait a min
- 878 Tangier is possibly the most cosmopolitan city in the world. In native costume you'll see Berber and Rif, Arab and Blue Man, and occasionally a Senegalese from further south. In European dress you'll see j.a.ps and Chinese, Hindus and Turks, Lev
- 877 He spent the first three days of his life in the year 2133 getting the feel of things. Brett-James and Reston-Farrell had been appointed to work with him. Joe didn't meet any of the others who belonged to the group which had taken the measures to bri
- 876 "I'm not sayin' nothin'. Not until I get a mouthpiece."The newcomer started off on another tack. "My name is Lawrence Reston-Farrell. If I am not mistaken, you are Joseph Salviati-Prantera."Salviati happened to be Joe�
- 875 "We're a good team, Bill. I'm a chemist, but I don't know a thing about people. You're a psychologist. A real one; not one of these night-school boys. A juvenile psychologist, too. And what age-group spends the most money in this
- 874 "I put up a lot of the money, too, don't forget," Carl told him. "Or the Union did; I'm a poor man, myself." He was smoking an excellent cigar, for a poor man, and his clothes could have come from the same tailor as Walter�
- 873 To hazard a purely unofficial opinion, I should not imagine that London is very much dissatisfied with this denouement. His Majesty's government are a hard-headed and matter-of-fact set of gentry who do not relish mysteries, least of all mysteries wh
- 872 He was en route to Hamburg from Vienna, where he had been serving as his government's envoy to the court of what Napoleon had left of the Austrian Empire. At an inn in Perleburg, in Prussia, while examining a change of horses for his coach, he casual
- 871 The others nodded. Walter rubbed his hands together. "All right. Tomorrow we work as usual, until the noon whistle. When we go off for lunch, we throw the machines into lock-step. Then we just don't come back. But the big thing is to keep it qui
- 870 "But Tyndall! He'll turn Was.h.i.+ngton into a grand revival meeting, he'll--""Then we'll cut him down to size. He's my candidate, remember, not his own. He'll play my game if it pays him well enough. But I want an
- 869 He strode down the aisle of the s.h.i.+p, leaving Dan staring bleakly at an empty seat.Paul, Paul-- * * * * *He met Terry Fisher at the landing field in Las Vegas. A firm handshake, clear brown eyes looking at him the way a four-year-old looks at Santa Cl
- 868 "Maybe he wanted to see you hang yourself.""But I can only hang myself on facts, not on the paranoid ramblings of a sick old man. The horrible thing is that he probably believes it--he almost had me believing it, for a while. But it isn
- 867 "Oh? Why?""He wouldn't say. Nothing to do with politics, he said. Something about Paul."Nathan s.h.i.+rmer was waiting in the library, sipping a brandy and pretending to scan a Congressional Record in the viewer-box. He looked up,
- 866 Fisher lurched to his feet. "They'll get you, Carl. They can try you and shoot you right on the spot, and Barness will do it. I had to tell you, you've walked right into it, but you might still get away if--"It was cruel. The drunken m
- 865 "The thought naturally occurs that the aliens were the rather decadent relics of a highly developed technological civilization existing on the planet in the not too distant past. Yet Miracastle offers no evidence for the existence of a prior technolo
- 864 The general's eyes broke to one side. He moved nervously as though physically to dismiss the tactical error of underestimating his opponent."Since this is your first planet," the general said, "perhaps you'd like to see something
- 863 General Shorter's breath was audible."Please feel free to smoke, David.""Thank you, sir, I don't smoke.""No, of course not. I'd forgotten." General Shorter half turned and placed his hands on the desk. He stood
- 862 All nineteen clamored to be heard, for Hall to relay their voices to Earth, but he held them off and first he told his story.The Ca.s.seiopeian delegate to the Galactic Senate was at the moment finis.h.i.+ng his breakfast. He was small and furry, not unli
- 861 Yudovich, however, was a proud old man, and he never once acknowledged to himself or to anyone else that his work was useless. He guarded and checked the plant as though it were the storehouse of the Terrestrial Treasury. Every hour punctually, he made hi
- 860 "Yup. My dad owns a patch by the river. Want some?" He proffered the basket."No, thank you," Hall answered. He resumed his walk up the highway with the boy at his side."D-do you live around here," he asked."Just up the r
- 859 THE STUTTERER.BY R. R. MERLISS.A man can be killed by a toy gun--he can die of fright, for heart attacks can kill. What, then, is the deadly thing that must be sealed away, forever locked in buried concrete--a thing or an idea?Out of the twenty only one m
- 858 "It would be better for you to defer the message if it be ill news until Tubain arrives, brother, for Glavour is enraged beyond measure at all of us. He threatens to sacrifice us at the next games and he may do so unless Tubain alters the decree. He
- 857 "Those weapons on which you are planning, Nepthalim, were given to you by our Grand Mognac for the purpose of ridding your planet of your oppressors and of defending your planet against further Jovian attacks, not for the purpose of invading another
- 856 "You have arrived. Unfasten your cylinders and emerge."They stepped out of the transporters and rubbed their eyes in astonishment. Two of the huge slugs had been amazing, but the effect of half a hundred grouped about them was more than the mind