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The Vicious DelinquentsFirst, there was the showdown with Naomi over who would lead the Callisto gang. This meant another degravity fight with python whips and steel claws. Having just gotten rid of the old battle scars on my cheek, shoulder and breast, I wasn't...

Not in the RulesI got the bad news as soon as we landed on Mars. The minute I got off the spacer, the little yellow Martie was standing there with a yellow envelope. He said, "Gladiator Jak Demsi?" I admitted it and he handed...

History of BirdsThe Ostrich leaves its eggs in the desert, and if it goes far away, it cannot find them again. In the Bible, cruel and forgetful people are compared to the Ostrich. It is a large bird, and runs very swiftly when pursued,...

Revolt of the Devil StarThe story of Darkness has been told. Darkness, the dreamer who crossed the immeasurable gulf of lightless emptiness between two universes. He, an energy creature tens of millions of miles in girth, sought the answer to life. Perhaps he found...

The Longsnozzle EventLen Zitts wiggled his big toe and gently pressed it against the velvet-covered button, and the couch on which he was lying began easing from beneath the desk to shape itself into a lounging chair. In the process, a pair of mechanical...

The CathedralBY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. BOSTON: FIELDS, OSGOOD, & CO. 1870. {4} Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by FIELDS, OSGOOD, & CO., in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. University Press: Welch, Bigelow,...

Jean Craig in New YorkWhen lovely Jean Craig moved with her family to Woodhow farm in Connecticut, she thought she was giving up her art lessons forever. And then suddenly the opportunity came to go to New York to study, and she went to...

The Women Who Make Our NovelsTHIS book, the rather unpremeditated production of several months work, is by a man who is not a novelist and who is therefore entirely unfitted to write about women who are novelists. Several excuses may be urged; the author...

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 10, Vol. I, March 8, 1884Some little time ago, when one of our most distinguished botanists was asked his opinion about the desirability of forming a collection of all the vegetable substances which...

Wild PasturesTHE most beautiful place which can be found on earth of a June morning is a New England pasture, and fortunate are we New Englanders who love the open in the fact that, whatever town or city may be our home, the old-time...

I rang med husets katt I kping sovo sjlva tornklockorna, vars visare p tre sidor rostat ihop och blivit ett. Endast p en sida hll man klockan i gng fru borgmstarinnan var s noga med mattiderna. Genom staden gick den trga n. I sin...

The Power of Sexual SurrenderI believe that the problem of sexual frigidity in women is one of the gravest problems of our times. Over 40 per cent of married women suffer from it in one or another of its degrees or forms. And their...

How to Study Fiorillo - A detailed, descriptive analysis of how to practice these studies, based upon the best teachings of representative, modern violin playingFEDERIGO FIORILLO was born in 1753, at Brunswick, where his father, a Neapolitan, lived as conductor of the opera. It...

The Miserly RobotThe old robot was one of the few remaining hand-made productions of the Rotulian eraan era which had seen each individually constructed robot reach the zenith in the various professional fields. An era totally unlike present-day Cornusia and its slip-shod electro-assembly line...

Menace From Vega"What do you want?" he asked. He had never faced a gun before, but he found, oddly enough, that he wasn't at all frightened. There was simply a tense expectancy, a feeling of what's-coming-next? and no more. Jim Lawrence looked at the...

An Eel by the TailIt all happened just because Mr. Tedder was fresh out of college, and anxious to make good in his first teaching job. He'd been given Physics II, a tough class for a new teacher. His pupils, a set of hardened...

A Journey of a JayhawkerThese letters were written to the Hutchinson Daily News, and are printed in book form without revision. With this understanding the reader will kindly overlook inconsistencies and inaccuracies, which easily creep into what is only an impression and not a...

Voyage to ProcyonIn the deepest level of the mighty Starship I, Peter Conroy lay hidden in a cornfield. Around him waved the tall stalks of ripening corn; high overhead, near the distant ceiling of the level, blazed the actinic lights that irradiated the broad...

Gold Hunting in AlaskaThe following story was originally written in pencil on any sort of paper at hand, and intended merely for "the folks at home." It is only by a prior claim to the manuscript that the young gold-hunter's mother has obtained his...

You'll Like It on MarsI remember it all so clearly. "Get the information and you can have anything you want," Myron Ferdinand told me. He stuffed his heavy pipe with five-dollar-an-ounce tobacco and blew a heavy cloud around his heavy face. "Fail to get...