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The VanderlarkThe VanderlarkThe peculiar quality of deep space is hard to put into words. On earth, however isolated we are, whatever happens to us, we are yet on our home planet. The man afloat on the life raft in the Pacific, delirious with exposure and...
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The Android KillThe Android KillThe android slaves, insipid pieces of metal, plastic and skin, were constructed to work and work and help men like Caffrey relax. But someone, somewhere, made this batch too perfect. Caffrey, big tough Caffrey laughed out loud at the tremendous irony of...
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ItItBefore the Captain's feet fled ghosts of dust. Crackling with static electricity they fled before his body-charge. Ringing out through pools of heat mirage they mushroomed up the toppled walls. In his ears their crackling was laughter. In his brain he screamed at them....
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The DancersThe DancersIt was the hour before dawn. In the middle of the night the big ship had landed on the new planet, the satellite of the sun Proxima. Now they sat in the dark waiting, and they talked. "Two spears, against forty blasters and...
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The Great AccidentThe Great AccidentBY BEN AMES WILLIAMS Author of The Sea Bride, All the Brothers Were Valiant, etc. New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1920 All rights reserved Copyright, 1919, By THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY Copyright, 1920, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Set up and electrotyped. Published...
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Martian NightmareMartian NightmareThree tough, cynical fighting-men of EarthDanton, Keith, Van Nessrose from their tomb of forgetfulness ... to find themselves space-wrecked on Mars, the last hope of mankind against the evil and immortal Oligarchs. It was weird, incredible, it was a horrible dream ... but...
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Lord of a Thousand SunsLord of a Thousand Suns"Yes, you'll find almost anything man has ever imagined, somewhere out in the Galaxy," I said. "There are so damned many millions of planets, and such a fantastic variety of surface conditions and of life evolving to meet them, and...
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PalimpsestPalimpsestThe first Venusian ship to reach Earth found a single isolated tribe of human beings roving the bushlands of a large island in the southern hemisphere. The Earthmen were without exception dark of skin and eye, and their hair, which was jet-black, was as...
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HalftripperHalftripperThis section of New Sante Fe was off my beaten track. I've been on Mars a long time and am more than usually familiar with the various centers where we Terrans do our congregating. However, it'd been years since I'd come through here. I...
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Aussenseiter der Gesellschaft. Die Verbrechen der Gegenwart. Band 2Der Fall des Generalstabschefs Redl Im Jahre vor Beginn des Weltkrieges hat der erzwungene Selbstmord des Prager Korps-Generalstabschefs Oberst Alfred Redl und die bald darauf bekannt gewordene Tatsache seiner Spionagettigkeit beispielloses Aufsehen hervorgerufen, was durch die gespannte europische Lage politisch und durch den Rang...
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Last Night OutLast Night OutThe unfriendly street stretched ahead of them, pouring bitter waves of hostility through their nervous systems. They had ridden the bus from the space-port into town, and now they stood on the pavement soaking up the profusion of sensations which permeated the...
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Wreck Off TritonWreck Off TritonHis plans were thorough. Every risk had been closely considered. Now Ron Carnavon, ruthless convict, was ready to loot the wrecked spaceship of its sapphire treasure, and thrust his warped power around the entire, antagonistic EMV triangle. Ron Carnavon had been the...
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The Last LaughThe Last LaughThe visitor from Mars was a first-rate howl. Earthmen reckoned he was endowed with all the qualities of all the greatest clowns in the history of Buffoonery. Often though, the distance between humor and terror can be too short to be funny....
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The Conquistadors ComeThe Conquistadors ComeThe Conquistadors were tall men, tall and bronzed by many suns, and splendid as they strode down the gangplank in a seemingly endless procession. They were fair-haired, with flashing black eyes like polished onyx, and their straight profiles might have been copied...
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Grim Green WorldGrim Green WorldI lit the last cigarette I would ever smoke and took my airsuit out of the compartment under the control-board. The two-man cubicle was coffin-cold even under the blast of sunlight pouring through the forward port, and the air smelled of stale...
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Tydore's GiftTydore's GiftThe sun was a shrunken red disk against the starfields, a distant pale luminosity surrendering to the encroachment of the falling night. Hoarfrost crunched under Marley's feet as he walked by the still black waters of the canal, and then thin wind whispered...
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Vengeance on Mars!Vengeance on Mars!Hale cut the motor as he swerved off the ancient plastic roadway. His one-man beetle thumped over the shoulder and, wheels whispering, coasted down the sandy, moonlit slope. It threaded between mighty linla cacti that had the size and shape of spaceships...
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The WatchersThe WatchersHe left his gyro on the dark lawn and circled the villa, carefully avoiding the wash of light from open windows. The blast gun lay snug and cold in his hand, and his thought ran bleakly: Here am I, Peter Manson, pacifist, idealist,...
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Sign of LifeSign of LifeThe wind was trying to finish him off right now. It shrieked, moaned, whispered and shouted through the smashed hull where he sprawled in his space-suit. Laughed, too. The wind was a murdererand was glad. All but he were dead. Soon the...
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MonsterMonsterThere was a faint scratching at the door, so faint that Alice Kidd, who had been listening fearfully for precisely that sound, was at first not certain that she heard it. But, as she came close to the doorway, it was no longer possible...
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