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The Golden Age Of Science Fiction Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the The Golden Age Of Science Fiction novel. A total of 1755 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : The Golden Age of Science Fiction.An Anthology of 50 Short Stories.by Various.VOL I.A ST
The Golden Age of Science Fiction.An Anthology of 50 Short Stories.by Various.VOL I.A STRANGE Ma.n.u.sCRIPT FOUND IN A COPPER CYLINDER.
By James De Mille CHAPTER I.THE FINDING OF THE COPPER CYLINDER.It occurred as far back as February 15, 1850. It happene
- 1055 I was truly shocked. I felt guilty. "No!" I said. "Oh, no! What a thing to do. You can't!""Now, now. Gently," they said. "What, after all, oh Fatherland, might be the perfectly natural consequences of your own act?&
- 1054 So I had to--that compulsion--go close the door. Then I sat down to think.Anyway I thought I sat down to think. But, suddenly, my thoughts were not my own.I wasn't producing them; I was receiving them."Barth! Oh, Land of Barth. Do you read us, o
- 1053 Brant's brows lifted in amazement. "A hundred thousand! What's the catch, Phil?"Philon's voice dropped to a confidential tone. "You always were a clever man with electronics, Al, and I've got something here that's j
- 1052 Bill MacDonald looked across the table at Jean and said, "All right, Jean."Jean and all the MacDonalds bent their heads and the girl began, "We thank Thee for our daily bread as by Thy hands...."As the girl spoke Phil's gaze drift
- 1051 Contents THE HOUSE FROM NOWHERE.by Arthur G. Stangland New neighbors are always exciting. But the anachronistic MacDonalds offered a bit too much.The morning paper lay unread before Philon Miller on the breakfast table and even the prospects of steaming c
- 1050 "The coffee's already on and the canapes made," Phyllis smiled. "And I've baked cookies, too, and whipped up a batch of penuche. What kind of a Christmas party do you think it would be without refreshments?""Very efficie
- 1049 "I certainly hope so. I so admire your English literature. It's so deeply cognizant of the really meaningful things in life. And if your coming to this planet has served only to add poetry to our cultural heritage, it would be reason enough to w
- 1048 "What are you talking about, honey? Magnolia and I--we're just friends.""Purely a platonic relations.h.i.+p, I a.s.sure you," the tree herself agreed. It would have been silly for her to pretend not to have overheard, since the tw
- 1047 No, in these days of mental telepathy and extra sensory perception, crumbs do not erase other crumbs. They just grab some citizen and put him in a box until he is ready to do their dirty work for them.Guilt? That would be mine. A crime is a crime and the
- 1046 Someone behind me in the dark was toting a needle-ray. The impression came through so strong that I could almost read the filed-off serial number of the thing, but the guy himself I couldn't dig at all. I stopped to look back but the only sign of lif
- 1045 Terrence looked him up and down, "If you foul up just once more ... I'm going to ... I'll split your gizzard, stuff it with To-To leaves and send you to the Rumi for their breakfast with my compliments!"O'Shaughnessy s.h.i.+vered
- 1044 "Then for the sake of your two headed frog-faced G.o.ds, shut up and listen to me.""Yes, sir.""Look. In a minute our Banning will be in action," his voice was drowned out by the scream of tortured air as the Banning cut loose
- 1043 Those crazy, sloppy, frog-like Narakans ... all thumbs and six-inch skulls ... relics of the Suzi swamps. Until four-fisted Lt. Terrence O'Mara moved among them--lethal, dangerous, with a steady purpose flaming in his volcanic eyes.Terrence O'Ma
- 1042 "Nearly thought I wouldn't make it," she observed, shaking herself in a flurry of wet pink feathers. The rest of the staff ducked, most of them too late. "Umbrella didn't do much good," she continued, closing it. It left a li
- 1041 "Longing for the old scripto, eh?" one of the cameramen smiled as he lounged in the open doorway of her office. Although she was fond of fresh air, Tarb realized that she would have to keep the door shut from now on. Too many of the younger memb
- 1040 "Catch her!" Miss Snow exclaimed in Terran.Everything had gone maroon for Tarb again. As she fell, she could hear a sudden thump. It was, she later discovered, Drosmig falling off his perch again--the result of insecure grip, she was given to un
- 1039 With the growing development of trade and cultural relations between the two planets, the Fizbians on Earth were an ever-increasing number. But they were not the only readers of "Helpfully Yours." Reprinted in the parent paper, it was read with
- 1038 "Don't act so innocent, Colihan. Your report isn't complete. It should have been ready by now.""Yes, sir!""You're not ACTING, Colihan. You're stalling!""No, sir.""Then where's your Pers
- 1037 "And do you know why? Because sometimes I see a thing like this--" the boss's hand reached into the desk and came out with a thick bundle of pink cards--"and I wonder if there's an honest man left in the world."He put the car
- 1036 Mr. Tanter kept smiling and rocked back and forth on his feet as Krayton had done. Before nightfall The Computer would be a useless and overheated ma.s.s of plastic and metal!He took a printed folder from his pocket and casually dropped it on the floor wh
- 1035 "That's the deal," Fannia said. "Guilty conscience is making sinners of us all, or something like that. They expect us to give in before the carnage gets out of hand." He considered for a moment. "It's not so crazy, actu
- 1034 Coming out of transformer drive with at least a drop of fuel left, they switched to atomics. Fannia rode the beam right across the planet, locating the slender metal spire of the Galactic Survey cache. The plain was no longer unoccupied, however. The Casc
- 1033 [Ill.u.s.tration]The voice was gone. And then even the static was gone."That does it," Rajcik said. "The calculator? Did he mean the Fahrensen Computer in our hold?""I see what he meant," said Captain Somers. "The Fahren
- 1032 The s.p.a.ce freighter Queen Dierdre was a great, squat, pockmarked vessel of the Earth-Mars run and she never gave anyone a bit of trouble. That should have been sufficient warning to Mr. Watkins, her engineer. Watkins was fond of saying that there are t
- 1031 "I understand," Thayer said. He was silent for some seconds, and perhaps he, too, was gazing during that time at a Fort Roye of the future--a Cla.s.s A military base under his command, with Earth's great war vessels lined up along the lengt
- 1030 "Uh-huh.""It really doesn't cost you anything?" Beulah asked doubtfully."Not a cent.""Hm-m-m. Been meaning to ask you. What made you set up that ... Colonial Labor Union?"Phil nodded. "That's the offi
- 1029 We tramped across the plain. My eyes kept roving about: there wasn't much hope for me, but miracles have happened. Most of the scattered structures were hastily thrown together sheds of sheet iron. Barracks, they looked like. But, every so often I sp
- 1028 "They'd better not. You know what happened to him.""Yeah. Chucked into the ray. Well, he didn't give the burial squad any work." And the two laughed, a laugh that had more than a hint of s.a.d.i.s.tic cruelty in it. "If
- 1027 Darkness came swiftly. I was shooting into the eye of the sun at three hundred miles an hour. I swallowed a few pellets of concentrated food, then curled up in my bunk. There was no knowing how many hours would pa.s.s till I slept again.I fell asleep at o
- 1026 "How long can the things stay up?"Warren took in the surrounding mountainous countryside. "Indefinitely, sir. A single pilot, as long as he is physically able to operate. If there are two pilots up there to relieve each other, they could st
- 1025 A major grumbled, "It doesn't make much sense, sir. You know the marshal. It's probably a fake. If we have any superiority at all, it's our artillery.""And the old fox wouldn't want to join the issue on the plains, down
- 1024 "Then why," Joe had asked her, "haven't we achieved what your brother called it? Why isn't this Utopia? Isn't it what man has been yearning for, down through the ages? Where did the wheel come off? What happened to the dream?
- 1023 Joe shrugged. "Largely mountains, hills, woods. Good reconnaissance is going to make the difference in this one. And in the fracas itself cavalry is going to be more important than either artillery or infantry. A Nathan Forrest fracas, sir. A matter
- 1022 Joe finished his highball and came to his feet to get another one. He said, "On two occasions I've had an orderly save my life. I'm not taking any chances but that there might be a third opportunity.""Well, yessir. Does the captai
- 1021 But the Baron wasn't blind to reality any more than he was a coward. He dismissed Balt Haer's defeatism from his mind and came back to Joe Mauser. "As I say, you're the only officer recruit today. Why?"Joe said evenly, "I wou
- 1020 Don Mathers said wearily, "I don't know how you go about this. I don't have an appointment, but I want to see the President.""We can turn you over to one of the a.s.sistant secretaries, Captain Mathers," the sergeant said. &q
- 1019 Don Mathers said slowly, "Well, if we're not married, let me decide when I want another bottle of the grape, eh?"Dian flushed. "Sorry, Don."The headwaiter approached bearing another magnum of vintage wine. He beamed at Don Mathers
- 1018 "So much so that Earth's industry is switching back to petroleum and coal. Every ounce of radioactives is needed by the Fleet. Even so, it's just a matter of time."Don Mathers pursed his lips. "I didn't know it was that bad.&
- 1017 The transportation magnate wiggled a disgustingly fat finger at him, "I'll arrange for that part of it."Don Mathers goggled him. He blurted finally, "Like h.e.l.l you will. There's not enough money in the system to fiddle with the
- 1016 Contents MEDAL OF HONOR.By Mack Reynolds According to tradition, the man who held the Galactic Medal of Honor could do no wrong. In a strange way, Captain Don Mathers was to learn that this was true.Don Mathers snapped to attention, snapped a crisp salute
- 1015 Through the barred windows of the workshop, rolling green hills were seen, their tree-studded flanks making a pleasant setting for the mental inst.i.tution. The crafts building was a good mile away from the main buildings of the hospital and the hills blo
- 1014 He started crawling toward an easy-chair that looked like good cover. A bullet cracked above his head, so close he felt the shock wave. He got up, ran panicky, crouched, and dove behind the chair.An inspector cracked the valve on a smoke grenade. A white
- 1013 Umluana turned back to Ras.h.i.+d a second too soon. He saw the sergeant's upraised hand before it collided with his neck."Help! Kidnap."Ras.h.i.+d judo chopped him and swung the inert body over his shoulders. Read pulled a flat grenade fro
- 1012 Sam was known as The Genius of the s.p.a.ce Age, an apt t.i.tle because there might not have been any s.p.a.ce without him. He had been extremely versatile during his long career, having been responsible for the so-called eternal metals--metal against whi
- 1011 "Is there anything I can do--?" she began. "What's happened? Something important?""Important?" Sid Chamberlain exploded. "Look at that, Sachi! We're reading it! Martha's found out how to read Martian!"
- 1010 "You didn't notice that it happened when the power was on, did you," one of the engineers asked, nettled at Lattimer's tone. "Well, it was. Everything's burned out or shorted or fused together; I saw one busbar eight inches a
- 1009 She glanced across the room, to where Tony Lattimer was sitting with Gloria Standish, talking earnestly, while Gloria sipped one of the counterfeit martinis and listened. Gloria was the leading contender for the t.i.tle of Miss Mars, 1996, if you liked bi
- 1008 There could be a faintly critical overtone to that. As she replied, Martha realized that she was being defensive."It will, some day. Look how long it took to read Egyptian hieroglyphics, even after they had the Rosetta Stone."Sachiko smiled. &qu
- 1007 Then the pump started again. The Lord Mayor's hands tightened on the staff; he was struggling tormentedly with himself, in vain. His face relaxed into the heartbroken expression of joy; he turned and shuffled over, dropping onto his haunches with the
- 1006 "Well, if I hear the two sounds alike, why doesn't the a.n.a.lyzer hear them alike?" Karl Dorver demanded."It has better ears than you do, Karl. Look how many different frequencies there are in that word, all crowding up behind each ot
- 1005 "Give them the Shooting of Dan McJabberwock again," he told Meillard. "This is where we came in yesterday."Something Meillard had noticed was exciting him. "Wait a moment. They're going to do something."They were indeed.
- 1004 Gofredo called to the Marines to stand fast. Then they were advancing to meet the natives, and when they were twenty feet apart, both groups halted. The horn stopped blowing. The one in the yellow robe lifted his staff and said something that sounded like
- 1003 He got off the moving strip as soon as the lights of the center of the city were clear below, and stepped into the self-operated lift that sped down to ground level. From the elevator, he moved on to one of the long, honeycombed concourses, filled with pa
- 1002 He screamed out in horror, and followed the echoes of his own scream as he ran down the stone corridor, blindly, slipping on the wet stone floor, falling on his knees into inches of brackish water, sc.r.a.ping back to his feet with an uncontrollable convu
- 1001 Contents THE DARK DOOR.By Alan E. Nourse 1.It was almost dark when he awoke, and lay on the bed, motionless and trembling, his heart sinking in the knowledge that he should never have slept. For almost half a minute, eyes wide with fear, he lay in the sil
- 1000 He met Jake Miles coming up the steps. Jake looked pale, too pale."Morning," Phillip said weakly. "Nice day. Looks like the sun might come through.""Yeah," said Jake. "Nice day. You--uh--feel all right this morning?"
- 999 "It's a clear bracket," said McCready. "Now watch the gun. I'll give them a salvo."From the side of the Denver came a cloud of black smoke as all of her turret guns fired in unison. The aim was perfect. For a few moments all
- 998 "Thanks. But, er--haven't you considered what your position here will be if you aid us to escape? Saranoff doesn't deal kindly with traitors, I fancy."The girl spat on the floor."That swine!" she hissed, "I would like to
- 997 "I don't know yet. McCready says that the gauge is dropping pretty rapidly. I'm going to go out and see what I can do.""Can't I go, Doctor? I'm a good deal lighter than you are.""You're not as strong or as
- 996 Janice pressed closer to him and whispered in his ear: "I made friends with that girl who pa.s.sed for Helena. I like her. She says we'll be invited to make a trip to their planet. They can do something about the gravity. And she says she's
- 995 The Greek general pointedly said nothing. Coburn caught his meaning. The fleet, firing point-blank, had not destroyed its target. The s.h.i.+p last night had seemed to fall into a cloud bank and explode. But n.o.body had seen it blow up. Maybe it hadn
- 994 "We can skip your technical information, Mr. Coburn," he said with ironic courtesy, "unless you've something new to offer."Coburn shook his head. He seethed."For the record," said the skipper, "I repeat that it is o
- 993 IV.He came to in a hospital room, with a nurse and two doctors and an elaborate oxygen-administering apparatus. The apparatus was wheeled out. The nurse followed. The two doctors hurried after her. The American colonel of the airport was standing by the b
- 992 Coburn muttered bitterly: "They were set to destroy themselves if they got into other hands than Dillon's. We haven't a bit of proof that he wasn't a human being. Not a shred of proof!"He suddenly felt a sick rage, as if he had be
- 991 The outside of Dillon looked remarkably like something made out of foam-rubber. Coburn touched it, insanely.He heard his own voice saying flatly: "It's a sort of suit. A suit that looks like Dillon. He was in it. Something was! Something is play
- 990 Even in the pain of my broken rib, I laughed then. Freydis had overreached herself at last! In smothering Ganelon under Edward Bond's memories in the Earth World, she had given me the means to vanquish him now! He was mine, to finish when I chose, an
- 989 Matholch lay motionless now. Beyond his body Medea was rising to her feet, her dark hair disordered. Facing me stood Lorryn, a stone man, only his eyes alive in his set, white face.He was staring at Edeyrn, whose sleek dark head I saw. Her back was toward
- 988 "Nor is it the work of one man," Lorryn said doubtfully. "With us to aid you, victory will fly at your elbow.""I know the weapon against Llyr," I said. "One man can wield it. But keep the guardsmen back, and the Covenant
- 987 "And that was --?""The end of the Coven," Ghast Rhymi said. "If you lived. I foresaw the arms of Llyr reaching into the Dark World, and Matholch lying dead in a shadowed place, and doom upon Edeyrn and Medea. For time is fluid, Ga
- 986 The red moon was far down the sky when I came back to Lorryn, still crouching beside the castle wall and half mad with impatience. There was an eager stir among the unseen soldiers as I came running down the road, a forward surge as if they had waited to
- 985 I had forgotten nothing I had ever known about Earth. And by applying logic to the Dark World, I understood things I had always before taken for granted.The mutations gave the key. There are depths in the human mind forever unplumbed, potentialities for p
- 984 Rock-still, boulder-huge, she stood across the fire from me. Her voice deepened."I sent you into the Earth-World. I brought your double, Edward Bond, here. He helped us, and -- Aries loved him, after a while. Even Lorryn, who does not trust many, gre
- 983 "Well, Aries?" I said.Her lips quivered."It can't be. I know, but Lorryn is right. You know that; we can take no risks. To have the devil Ganelon back, after all that's happened, would be disastrous."Devil, I thought. The dev
- 982 Through the near-darkness her eyes glowed.Faintly, and from far away, I heard a thin, trumpeting call. It was repeated.Then silence -- and a whispering that rose to a rhythmic thudding of shod hoofs.Past us moved a figure, a helot guardsman, unmasked, uns
- 981 I knew him. Or I knew him for what he was. I had seen dodging, furtive, green-clad figures like his before, and an anger already familiar surged over me at the very sight of him.Enemy, upstart! One of the many who had dared work their magic upon the great
- 980 "Yes.""A -- shape-changer?""No," Edeyrn said, and the thin body under the robe seemed to shake a little. "No, I cannot change my shape, Lord Ganelon. You do not remember my -- my powers?""I do not.""Y
- 979 "It is difficult, difficult," Medea said. "Help me, Edeyrn. Lord Matholch."The fires died. Around us was not the moonlit wilderness of the Limberlost, but empty grayness, a featureless grayness that stretched to infinity. Not even star
- 978 I stopped."Yes?" my uncle prompted softly."It was in New Orleans. I woke up one night and there was something in my room, very close to me. I had a gun -- a special sort of gun -- under my pillow. When I reached for it the -- call it a dog
- 977 Broderick MacNeil lay in his bed and felt pleasantly ill. He treasured each one of his various symptoms; each pain and ache was just right. He hadn't been so comfortable in years. It really felt fine to have all those doctors fussing over him. They g
- 976 "What's the matter with it, then?" asked Major Grodski, eying the fruit with sleepy curiosity.Dr. Pilar gave the thing a wry look and put it back in the specimen bag. "Except for the fact that it has killed every one of our test specim
- 975 Potential.Definition: Potential; that which has a possibility of coming into existence.No, more than that. That which has a-- * * * * *He jerked his mind away suddenly from the thoughts which had crowded into his forebrain.What were the chances that the f
- 974 The branch quivered resentfully under him."Careful, there!" whooshed the eerie voice. "It took me all summer to grow those!"Kolin could feel the skin crawling along his backbone."Who are you?" he gasped.The answering sigh of
- 973 He didn't want it.There was a numbness where there should have been emotion, and all he could feel for his loss was the resignation and the faint bitter humor permitted him by Pierce's smile. Watching that smile he s.h.i.+fted the heavy little g
- 972 It was during dinner on the Moon that he and Pierce loosened up for the first time since the ambush. Pierce had been comparatively silent since the chess game on the trip back and Bryce too, whether in sympathy with him or in a naturally parallel mood, ha
- 971 Pierce's clear voice said the standard words over the murmur and shuffle of feet. "No unfairness having been observed, when called to give testimony you can then say that he shot in self-defense and under duress."A low wail of sirens was he
- 970 That night, in the s.p.a.cehands end of the city, they ate the dinner that he usually had with Mona at a nightclub, or alone looking for a good pickup in an expensive c.o.c.ktail lounge. It was in the s.h.i.+pping area around the docks, at the opposite en
- 969 The telephone rang."Four thirty, Mr. Carter," said the voice of the night clerk in the receiver.It was time to catch the five thirty Moon s.h.i.+p. He splashed cold water on his face and the back of his neck until he was awake, took a hot shower
- 968 "Carry it to a vote."They slipped their hands under the table edge before their respective seats, and each man ran his fingers over two b.u.t.tons concealed there, before him, chose between the yes and the no b.u.t.ton and pushed one, the choice
- 967 "Bear up!" I heard the doctor's voice begin, "one minute more and we----" Then there was a violent coughing, a door slammed, and the voice was barely heard--afar off--as through a wall. Had they escaped, then, to another room? I h
- 966 Late in the spring the toiling cattle left the thres.h.i.+ng-floors, and traversed the fields in long procession, two and two, lashed together by a bar across the horns instead of a yoke, and dragging heavy stone ploughs slowly after them to prepare the s
- 965 "Yes; and it struck me as peculiar at the time that he said of 'G.o.d's' not of 'the G.o.ds','" I reflected. "Evidently he thinks there is but one G.o.d. The whole matter is altogether peculiar.""Here
- 964 "We come from a star, O Zaphnath, where men desire many things and are never satisfied. But of all the things thou offerest us, we wish not one. We make no peace unless these old men be left alive. We do not know this country or its people, wherefore
- 963 A torrent of the shafts fell all about us, and many pelted against our s.h.i.+elds. Those which struck the soft earth of the bank sank into it and stuck there, but those which struck our steel were s.h.i.+vered and broken."Sit still and let them shoo
- 962 CHAPTER I.Why Mars gives a Red Light Our telescope was now pointed exactly at Mars, and we were observing every feature as we approached him. Compared with the illuminated crescent of the Earth, which we had studied when we were observing the Andes, our p
- 961 "Then there is not the slightest doubt that we see the Lower Andes," he said. "These last you mention are scattered just as you say along the border between Chili and Argentina, and the group of three are near Valparaiso, the peak of Aconca
- 960 "That is disappointing," he answered, "for we are only eight thousand miles from home; but our velocity is still constantly increasing.""I would like to buy things here and sell them at the surface," I exclaimed."You wou
- 959 While the doctor was saying this, he had been busy making tests of his apparatus. He now called me to see his buoyancy gauge, which was a half-spherical ma.s.s of steel weighing just ten pounds. It was pierced with a hole at right angles to its plane surf
- 958 "That one which finds a way to visit the others first," he answered, with a touch of pride."But there may be a tinge of personal conceit in that idea," I suggested."Possibly a mere tinge, but the essence of it is apparent truth,&q
- 957 "Go on," I said at last; "I am all attention."CHAPTER II.The Gravity Projectile Hermann Anderwelt had probably suffered many disappointments and waited long for a hearing. Now he seemed to feel that his opportunity had come, for he con
- 956 THE DEMI-URGE.By Thomas M. Disch From DIRA IV To Central Colonial Board There is intelligent life on Earth. After millennia of lifelessness, intelligence flourishes here with an extravagance of energy that has been a constant amazement to all the members