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Pariah PlanetPariah PlanetThe little Med Ship came out[6] of overdrive and the stars were strange and the Milky Way seemed unfamiliar. Which, of course, was because the Milky Way and the local Cepheid marker-stars were seen from an unaccustomed angle and a not-yet-commonplace pattern of...
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Beside Still WatersBeside Still WatersWhen people talk about getting away from it all, they are usually thinking about our great open spaces out west. But to science fiction writers, that would be practically in the heart of Times Square. When a man of the future wants...
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Dr. SevierDr. SevierThe main road to wealth in New Orleans has long been Carondelet street. There you see the most alert faces; nosesit seems to onewith more and sharper edge, and eyes smaller and brighter and with less distance between them than one notices in...
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The Man the Martians MadeThe Man the Martians MadeIf Frank Belknap Long is not one of the deans of science fiction writers, there can certainly be no dispute that he is high on the faculty board. His pen is indefatigable, it seems, and his characters come alive as...
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The Man from TimeThe Man from TimeThe method by which one man might be pinpointed in the vastness of all Eternity was the problem tackled by the versatile Frank Belknap Long in this story. And as all minds of great perceptiveness know, it would be a simple,...
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The Valley of Silent Men: A Story of the Three River CountryThe Valley of Silent Men: A Story of the Three River Country Before the railroad's thin lines of steel bit their way up through the wilderness, Athabasca Landing was the picturesque threshold over which one must step who would enter into the mystery and...
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The Country Beyond: A Romance of the WildernessThe Country Beyond: A Romance of the Wilderness A glass of wine once lost a kingdom, a nail turned the tide of a mighty battle, and a woman's smile once upon a time destroyed the homes of a million people. Thus have trivial things...
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The Gods of MarsThe Gods of Mars Twelve years had passed since I had laid the body of my great-uncle, Captain John Carter, of Virginia, away from the sight of men in that strange mausoleum in the old cemetery at Richmond. Often had I pondered on the...
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The Very Small PersonThe Very Small PersonDear John, the letter began,Its all very well except one thing. I wonder you didnt think of that. Im thinking of it most of the time, and it takes away so much of the pleasure of the rose-garden and the raspberry-bushes!...
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Etienne Gerards BedrifterEtienne Gerards BedrifterNaar Kejser Napoleon havde Brug for en flink Soldat, var han altid villig til at erindre Etienne Gerards Navn, medens det ikke sjldent undgik hans Opmrksomhed, naar der uddeltes Belnninger. Imidlertid var jeg dog Oberst, da jeg var otte og tyve, og...
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Murder Point: A Tale of KeewatinMurder Point: A Tale of KeewatinJohn Granger, agent on the Last Chance River in the interests of Garnier, Parwin, and Wrath, independent traders in the territory of Keewatin, sat alone in his store at Murder Point. He sat upon an upturned box, with an...
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Blue-grass and BroadwayBlue-grass and BroadwayThe need of a large sum of money in a great hurry is the root of many noble ambitions, in whose branches roost strange companies of birds, pecking away for dollars that growor do noton bushes. And it was in such a...
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The PrisonerThe PrisonerThere could not have been a more sympathetic moment for coming into the country townor, more accurately, the inconsiderable cityof Addington than this clear twilight of a spring day. Anne and Lydia French with their stepfather, known in domestic pleasantry as the colonel,...
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A Day with Felix Mendelssohn BartholdyA Day with Felix Mendelssohn BartholdyNature is strangely freakish in her choice of instruments for noble purposes. Sometimes the delicate spirit of creative genius is housed in a veritable tenement of clay, so that what is within seems ever at war with what is...
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Henry Esmond The English Humourists The Four GeorgesHenry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges The estate of Castlewood, in Virginia, which was given to our ancestors by King Charles the First, as some return for the sacrifices made in his Majesty's cause by the Esmond family, lies in Westmoreland county,...
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Durch Wüste und HaremDurch Wüste und Harem - Gesammelte Reiseromane, Band ISelbst ein treuer Leser von Dr. Karl May, erging es mir stets wie allen Andern, welche seine Reisewerke kennen: ich konnte das Erscheinen einer von ihm angekndigten neuen Arbeit immer kaum erwarten. Die Grnde dieser Ungeduld,...
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Laulajat: JutelmaLaulajat: Jutelma"Te olette hirven typeri. Olisiko meille, vhisille pikku-kaupungin tytille, mitn iloa siit, jos keisari tulisi tnne. Ei ensinkn, maistraati ja virkamiehet saisivat puhua ja syd majesteetin kanssa, ja me tyttraukat saisimme osallemme vaan katselemisen huvin." "Tralalala", lauloi Selma. "Minun mielestni se ilo olisi...
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An Old Sailor's YarnsAn Old Sailor's Yarns[Pg 6]Mr. Buckingham, noticing the "Nautical Reminiscences" in the New England Magazine, says, no author ever stopped at the second book; and he very gravely proceeds to recommend that my number three should savor more of the style of Goldsmith or...
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Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer: A Romance of the Spanish MainSir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer: A Romance of the Spanish MainIn literature there have been romantic pirates, gentlemanly pirates, kind-hearted pirates, even humorous piratesin fact, all sorts and conditions of pirates. In life there was only one kind. In this book that kind appears. Several...
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The Trimming of GoosieThe Trimming of GoosieGoosie, otherwise Mr. Charles-Norton Sims, dropped his arms hastily down his sides and stood very still, caged in the narrow space between porcelain tub and gleaming towel-rack. The mirror before which he had been performing his morning calisthenics faced him uncompromisingly;...
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