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Survival TacticsSurvival TacticsThere was a sudden crash that hung sharply in the air, as if a tree had been hit by lightning some distance away. Then another. Alan stopped, puzzled. Two more blasts, quickly together, and the sound of a scream faintly. Frowning, worrying about...
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Aventures extraordinaires d'un savant russe II. Le Soleil et les petites planètesAventures extraordinaires d'un savant russe; II. Le Soleil et les petites planètesAussi, tout en applaudissant in petto l'aventure qui soustrayait son ami Gontran l'enfer du mariage, il ne pouvait s'empcher, en mme temps, de dplorer cette mme aventure qui frappait si cruellement le comte...
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Second LandingSecond LandingEarth was so far away that it wasn't visible. Even the sun was only a twinkle. But this vast distance did not mean that isolation could endure forever. Instruments within the ship intercepted radio broadcasts and, within the hour, early TV signals. Machines...
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"Pig-Headed" Sailor Men"Pig-Headed" Sailor Men - From "The Strange Adventure of James Shervinton, and Other Stories" - 1902 Crossing from Holyhead to Ireland one night the captain of the steamer and myself, during an hour's talk on the bridge, found that we each had sailed in...
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The Flemmings and "Flash Harry" of SavaitThe Flemmings and "Flash Harry" of Savait - From "The Strange Adventure of James Shervinton, and Other Stories" - 1902 On a certain island in the Paumotu Group, known on the charts as Chain Island, but called Anaa by the people themselves, lived a...
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Âmona; The Child; And The Beast; And OthersÂmona; The Child; And The Beast; And Others - From "The Strange Adventure of James Shervinton, and Other Stories" - 1902 mona was, as his master so frequently told himaccentuating the remark with a blow or a kickonly a miserable kanaka. Of his miserableness...
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MuftiMuftiThe officer lying back in the home-made chair tilted the peak of his cap over his eyes and let his book slip gently to the ground. A few moments later, after various unavailing waves of the hand, he pulled out a handkerchief of striking...
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A Matter of MagnitudeA Matter of MagnitudeThe ship, for reasons that had to do with the politics of appropriations, was named Senator Joseph L. Holloway, but the press and the public called her Big Joe. Her captain, six-star Admiral Heselton, thought of her as Great Big Joe,...
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Aventures extraordinaires d'un savant russe IV. Le désert sidéralAventures extraordinaires d'un savant russe; IV. Le désert sidéralurant un long moment, Mickhal Ossipoff demeura immobile, les yeux attachs, dmesurment ouverts, sur les leviers que ses mains avaient abandonns; il tait en proie une sorte d'hallucination, se demandant s'il tait bien vrai qu'il et...
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The Honourable Mr. TawnishThe Honourable Mr. TawnishMyself and Bentley, who, though a good fellow in many ways, is yet a fool in more (hence the prominence of the personal pronoun, for, as every one knows, a fool should give place to his betters)myself and Bentley, then, were...
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The Book of All-PowerThe Book of All-PowerThe chairman of the Ukraine Oil Company looked with a little amusement at the young man who sat on the edge of a chair by the chairman's desk, and noted how the eye of the youth had kindled at every fresh...
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The Lady and the PirateThe Lady and the Pirate - Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair CaptiveI WAS sitting at one of my favorite spots engaged in looking through my fly-book for some lure that might, perhaps, mend my luck in the afternoons...
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The Call of the SouthThe Call of the South - 1908 Guess I'm getting round, and the big, bronzed-faced man raised his eyes to mine as he lay under the awning on the after deck of his pearling lugger. I sat down beside him and began to talk....
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The Ebbing Of The TideThe Ebbing Of The Tide - South Sea Stories - 1896 A boy and a girl sat by the rocky margin of a deep mountain pool in Ponape in the North Pacific. The girl was weaving a basket from the leaves of a cocoa-nut....
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The Wreck of the TitanThe Wreck of the Titan - or, FutilityShe was the largest craft afloat and the greatest of the works of men. In her construction and maintenance were involved every science, profession, and trade known to civilization. On her bridge were officers, who, besides being...
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Curious, if TrueCurious, if True - Strange Tales You know, my dears, that your mother was an orphan, and an only child; and I daresay you have heard that your grandfather was a clergyman up in Westmoreland, where I come from. I was just a girl...
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The Bag of DiamondsThe Bag of DiamondsRamillies Street, W.C., was certainly not attractive at twelve oclock on that December night, for it had been snowing in the early part of the evening; that snow was suffering from a fall of blacks: and as evil communications corrupt good...
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The PremiereThe PremiereClamped to the contour couch, the young girl strained against the padded steel grips and screamed. Again she writhed and screamed as she felt the hideous touch of the monster snatching at her. She struggled frenziedly through the muck of the swamp but...
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A Lieutenant at EighteenA Lieutenant at Eighteen "A Lieutenant at Eighteen" is the third of the series of "The Blue and the Grayon Land." The stirring events of thirty-four years ago, when the first gun of the Great Rebellion awoke the nation from its slumber of thirteen...
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The Great Potlatch RiotsThe Great Potlatch RiotsCaptain Winfree, straight in his scarlet-trimmed winter greens, tapped the toe of one boot with his swagger-stick. "With all respect, sir," he said, "I feel that if we do no more than hold the line, we're lending moral comfort to the...
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