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Captain ChaosCaptain ChaosWe picked up our new cook on Phobos. Not Phoebus or Phoebe; I mean Phobos, Mars' inner moon. Our regular victual mangler came down with acute indigestiontasted some of his own cooking, no doubtwhen we were just one blast of a jet-tube out...
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A History of Story-telling: Studies in the development of narrativeA History of Story-telling: Studies in the development of narrativeThis is a spring day, and I am writing in a flood of sunlight in front of a brown French inn. Above my head there is the dusty branch of a tree stuck out of...
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The Sworn Brothers: A Tale of the Early Days of IcelandThe Sworn Brothers: A Tale of the Early Days of IcelandIn the red light of the fire in the midst of the hall, the age-browned pillars of the high-seat stood forth strongly lit in the middle of the main wall, against the background of...
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The Star MouseThe Star MouseHe was just another mouse, who lived behind the floorboards and plaster of the house of the great Herr Professor Oberburger, formerly of Vienna and Heidelberg; then a refugee from the excessive admiration of more powerful of his fellow-countrymen. The excessive admiration...
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Robur, o ConquistadorRobur, o ConquistadorOs dois tiros de pistola partiram ao mesmo tempo. Uma vacca, que passava a uns cincoenta passos, recebeu uma das balas no espinhao. E no emtanto ella nada tinha que ver com a questo. Quem eram esses cavalheiros? No se sabe; e,...
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Un amour de SwannUn amour de SwannPour faire partie du "petit noyau", du "petit groupe", du "petit clan" des Verdurin, une condition tait suffisante mais elle tait ncessaire: il fallait adhrer tacitement un Credo dont un des articles tait que le jeune pianiste, protg par Mme Verdurin...
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The Last MartianThe Last MartianPeetn drew his cloak more firmly about his furry shoulders as the sun began to sink through the Martian sky and the wind throbbed a deeper note in the gathering darkness. He stood gazing silently as the fading light painted the sky...
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Pied Piper of MarsPied Piper of MarsIn all the solar system there is no city quite like Mercis, capital of Mars. Solis, on Venus, is perhaps more beautiful, some cities of Earth certainly have more drive and dynamitism, but there is a strange inscrutable air about Mercis...
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Cathalina at GreycliffCathalina at GreycliffIn these chapters the author has used her own family names, to which she fancies she has a right. There are, however, some changes; it was, for instance, a Katherine Knickerbocker who married a Van Buskirk. The Aunt Katherine of the story...
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The Timber PirateThe Timber PirateNights sable curtain was soon to fall on the short-lived drama of a Winter day in the Laurentians. The departing sub-arctic sun, in its last pale glory, sent up from the omnipresent whiteness myriads of glistening beams that stabbed the eyes like...
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The Thing of VenusThe Thing of VenusThe gailang gas hung in low soft waves over the motley crowd of the tiny, hidden gailang den. Laughter rose hysterically from the trio of women slummers, as the gas tore their natural reserves and modesty into shreds. A scarred space-pirate...
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Queen of the Blue WorldQueen of the Blue WorldIt was hot there in the tiny cabin of the wing with the rocket blasts thrumming behind them. Rurak dropped the sweat-sticky circle of his radiophone and peered down at the foul blueness of the swampland. A range of low...
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Gods of SpaceGods of SpaceThe weird purple glow of the planetoid was apparent now, even to the naked eye. The end of Roy Atwood's long, lonely journey was at hand. In the narrow control-turret of his small spaceship he sat gazing. Planetoid-150, in the belt out...
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The Three Stages of Clarinda ThorbaldThe Three Stages of Clarinda ThorbaldIn the soft light of an afternoon sun, Clarinda sat in an old chair and read a thesis upon love, and she found set forth in this thesis that without love the world would not go around. Further, without...
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Buffalo Bill border stories, no. 141Buffalo Bill's Boy Bugler; Or, The Last of the Indian RingIt is now some generations since Josh Billings, Ned Buntline, and Colonel Prentiss Ingraham, intimate friends of Colonel William F. Cody, used to forgather in the office of Francis S. Smith, then proprietor of...
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Thief of MarsThief of MarsRon Jordan presented a disgusting sight of an Earthman in the last stages of dissipation, as he slouched along the single dark street of Halo City, the sardonically named pirate base on Ceres, Ron's clothing was dirty and worn, his shoulders hunched...
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ZurkZurkThere was both agony and defeat etched deeply into Guyard's lean face as he stood there in the center of the hidden, attic laboratory. His fists were clinched tightly at his sides and his hollow eyes were staring tensely and with supplication at the...
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Monster of the AsteroidMonster of the AsteroidThe amazing thing began that summer evening of 1965 while I was sitting with Dora Franklin on the third ramp at the crossroads, listening to the outdoor public-music. We were on the fringe of the crowd in a secluded little place...
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The Lorelei DeathThe Lorelei DeathChip Warren stood before an oblong of glass set into one wall of the spaceship Chickadee II, stared at what he saw reflected therefromand frowned. He didn't like it. Not a bit! It was tootoo He turned away angrily, ripped the offending...
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Child of the SunChild of the SunThe animal instinct of escape prodded him, but he couldn't obey. He had fuel enough for one last burst of speed. But there was no way through that ring of ships. Tractor-beams, criss-crossing between them, would net the Falcon like a...
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