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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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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...."
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 1456 Jordan shook his head."Why didn't somebody tell me about this?""I sent you a ten page memo about it last week," objected Clements, somewhat aggrieved. "Gave you the whole story with extrapolations.""Memo! You know I
- 1457 Clements stretched out on the Vibrolounge and turned it on."The president," he began, as the machine went to work, "has called an arbitration meeting. Everyone's in on it ... Darius, Flack, Criswell, Wamboldt, Larkin and the Lord knows
- 1458 They returned to the AstroBar, and Clements began trying to catch up with Jordan."You know," said Jordan, his head wobbling a little with the emphasis he put into the words, "this is the d.a.m.nedest farce in the history of the world."
- 1459 "Not a terminal velocity drive, Bannister. He said it's not flying anymore. Lord knows which way he's falling.""So?""So I'd try anything. You've got to slow him.""Or return him to level flight."&
- 1460 "Then Tebron made this prohibition in the name of Kor. When did this occur?"THE KNOWLEDGE PROHIBITION WAS COMMUNICATED TO HIRLAJ WHEN TEBRON a.s.sUMED POWER RIGHT."The same day?"THE DAY AFTER. TEBRON COMMUNICATED WITH KOR IMMEDIATELY A
- 1461 Finally, he said, "That's the trouble with them, the Hirlaji. I can't really understand them. It's like there's really no contact, not even through the interpreter." He stared into his drink. "I wish to h.e.l.l we had so
- 1462 From Horng's mind came a slow rebuilding of the fear that he had just experienced, but it subsided. And as it did Rynason probed again into his mind, searching quickly for that contact he had just lost. He could almost feel Tebron's mind, began
- 1463 And in Horng he heard the whisper of distrust, of fear, and the echoes of that hatred which had struck at him once before. But they were in the background; all around him here on the surface was a pervading feeling of ... uselessness, resignation, almost
- 1464 "I told you not to trust them!" Manning snapped. "Now if you can't even match wits with a senile horsehead....""You were the one who said they might be more adept at telepathy than we are," Rynason said. "It was a c
- 1465 "They're firing something!"He saw that she was trying to gain alt.i.tude, but something was wrong; the buildings on the screen dipped and wavered, up and down, spinning."Mara! Pull up-get out of there!""One of the wings is da
- 1466 He grinned wearily. "Wait till next time.""Lee, where are we?" she said abruptly. Their eyes were becoming adjusted to the darkness, and they could see rising around them a complexity of machine relays, connectives, and pieces which di
- 1467 But the Outsiders were still here, alive in that huge alien brain ... the science, the knowledge, the strange arts of a race which had conquered the stars while men still wondered about the magic of lightning and fire. A science was encapsuled here which
- 1468 They are odd things, these legends, peopled with unreal creatures, magnificent heroes and despicable villains. We stand for no nonsense where our mythology is concerned. A man becoming part of our folklore becomes a fey, one-dimensional, shadow-image of r
- 1469 THE CARTELS JUNGLE.By Irving E. c.o.x, Jr.It was a world of greedy Dynasts--each contending for the right to pillage and enslave. But one man's valor became a s.h.i.+ning s.h.i.+eld.... and he who overcomes an enemy by fraud is as much to be praised
- 1470 He glanced at the woman. She was past the first bloom of youth and her face, under her makeup, was heavily lined, her eyes shrewd and observing. Had he known that she had been shadowing him almost from the instant of his arrival in Los Angeles, and had be
- 1471 His first sensation when the paralysis began to wear off was the dull ache of visceral nausea. He opened his eyes, and saw, bleakly shadowed, the living room of the Ames house. It was after dark, which could only mean that he had lain there nearly four ho
- 1472 The Von Rausch castle--and the word was scarcely a metaphor--was something lifted bodily out of a Tri-D historical romance, complete with porticos, battlements, stone-walled towers and an imitation moat where mechanical swans floated on the dark water.He
- 1473 "I represent that nonent.i.ty called the government, Captain.""A nonent.i.ty wouldn't make you what you are, Dawn.""My name, Captain--" She drew a long breath. "My name is Dawn Farren. The rest of my family is dying
- 1474 "You keep behind me." Don led us now, with his gun half raised. "Don't talk when we get further along, and walk as quietly as you can."The narrow path followed the bottom of the cliff. We presently had the open sea before us, with
- 1475 The night promised to be clear. The moon would rise, just beyond the full, a few hours after sunset. It was a warm and breathless night, with less wind than usual. Most of the people crowding the streets and the restaurants were in white linen--themselves
- 1476 We arrived with a rush. "Is he in there?" Don shouted. "Open the door, you fellows! See here, you watch him--we've got to get his clothes off. He's got some mechanism--wires and things underneath his clothes!""Get out of
- 1477 "Yes."We laid them on the ground in a little roadside banana patch. We were no more than a quarter of a mile from the enemy now; the glow of their green beams standing up into the air showed on the ridge-top ahead of us."We'll take the
- 1478 CHAPTER VI.The Attack upon New York I must sketch now the main events following this night of May 15th and 16th as the outside world saw them. The frantic reports from Bermuda were forced into credibility by the appearance of apparitions at many points al
- 1479 But, we were speedily to learn that he was not as fatuous as he at first seemed. These two worlds--occupying the same s.p.a.ce and invisible to each other--would be plunged into war. And Tako realized that no one, however astute, of either world could pre
- 1480 It brought to my mind the three pilots now operating our vehicle. I mentioned the lens on their left eyes like a monocle."With that they can see ahead of us a great distance. It flings the vision--like gazing along a beam of light--to s.p.a.ce-time f
- 1481 "Is it?""Very. That I should care what any woman thinks of me, particularly a captive girl--but I do. And I realize, Jane, that our marriage system is very different from yours. Repugnant to you, perhaps. Is it?""Yes," she mu
- 1482 At Tiffany's--as indeed in many other places--the soldiers made close visual contact with the apparitions. A patrolling group of soldiers entered Tiffany's and went to the second floor. They reported a seated group of "ghosts," with nu
- 1483 "Is it time?" Jarth Rolan asked anxiously. Pilot Lan Barda pushed him gently back into a seat. "No, but very soon. And be calm--you're jumpier than a human.""But we've waited so long--yes, a long time. And I am anxious t
- 1484 "What? That's impossible. Just from those small tips?""Small tips, but day after day; year after year. Add up some time what you've given and multiply by the number who've been doing it.""Then that's behind our
- 1485 "In ten," confirmed Jonner, pulling a lever on the calibrated gauge of the radio control."Pile Two, in fifteen.""In fifteen.""Check. I'll have the length of burst figured for you in a jiffy."A faint glow appear
- 1486 He looked up the name in the Mars City directory and dialed into the city from a nearby telephone booth. A woman's voice answered."Is Lana Elden there?" asked Jonner."I'm Lana Elden," she said.Jonner swore under his breath. A
- 1487 "The slack's gone already. You're thinking of the speed of Phobos, at Phobos. At this end of the cable, we're like the head of a man in the control section of a s.p.a.ce station, which is traveling slower than his feet because its...o.
- 1488 He could feel some of the effect himself. He went through a moment of indecision, but that was all. Then he stepped forward and shoved the Third Officer aside. The officer looked blank, then his face reddened in anger. As Thane tried to bring the armament
- 1489 The bitterly cold wind cut into Astrid and Thane as they hurried outside. Astrid was ahead, leaning against the wind, running towards the outbuilding which housed the jet. They were in full view of the Darzent attackers who renewed their thrust at the scr
- 1490 "I know," she said thoughtfully, "that Candar has never been friendly to the church. But I do not believe that he has the power to destroy it.""Up to now," Thane answered, "Candar has been limited. Now, with the drive, h
- 1491 Hull began scribbling on his paper again, evidently lost in the joys of elementary physics, so Jayjay Kelvin went back to his book.He had just read three words when Hull said: "Mr. Kelvin, do you mind if I ask a question?"Jayjay looked up from h
- 1492 "Meteor," Jayjay said flatly. "The b.u.mper hull is fused at the edges of the break, and the direction of motion was inward.""I don't see how it could have got by the meteor detectors," said Smith, a lean, sad-looking ma
- 1493 "Can't you ... uh, what do you call it? Uh ... jury-something--" Hull's voice sounded as though he were forcing it to be calm."Jury-rig?" Smith said. "Yeah? With what? Dammit, we haven't got any tools, and we haven&
- 1494 "Not at all," said Jayjay. "Did you ever chip flint?""What?""Never mind. All we have to do is use that quarter-inch bit."Smith still looked confused. "I don't get it. A bit that big won't fit in."
- 1495 Secretary of State Blendwell stopped off at Saarkkad IV before going on to V to take charge of the conference. He was a tallish, lean man with a few strands of gray hair on the top of his otherwise bald scalp, and he wore a hearty, professional smile that
- 1496 The angry burnt-red face of Ryan greeted him. "Okay, Stormy, this isn't the place for fun and games. What did you do with them?""Do with what?""The dead beasties. All the dead animals laying around the s.h.i.+p.""Wh
- 1497 "Be reasonable, Stormy," Ryan pleaded. "This might be some deep scientific mystery we could never discover in our lifetime. We might never get off this planet."That was probably behind his thinking all along, why he had been so quick t
- 1498 Nogol smiled. "I'm not drawing Hazard Pay."After a while, Ekstrohm stopped panting and faced Nogol and the captain who was now sitting, rubbing his jaw. "Okay," he said, "now you'll listen or I'll beat your skulls i
- 1499 In that eternity of tense waiting I tried to collect my thoughts. I told myself that I must keep steady, that I must keep my mind clear. I struggled to get a grip on myself; the light, the steady flying without power, the boundless, horrible silence had s
- 1500 Then it was I saw where he was sending us! Thirty feet below the platform there swung a small cabin, attached by cables and reached by a swinging steel ladder. As I looked a door in the roof slid back. "Climb down!" ordered Fraser again. There w