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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
- 201 "Yes.""Mounted on our flyer are six ultra-violet searchlights. By the side of each one is a wide angle telescopic concentrator which will focus any reflected ultra-violet onto a radium coated screen and thus make it visible to us. In effect the apparat
- 202 "We can't stand here and see murder done!" I protested."It's not murder. Pete, those children aren't being hurt. They are being hypnotized so that they can be transported to Mercury.""Why are they taking them to Mercury?" I demanded."As nearly a
- 203 Contents THE GREAT DROUGHT.By Capt. S. P. Meek "Is the maneuver progressing as you wish. Dr. Bird?" asked the Chief of the Air Corps.The famous scientist lowered his binoculars and smiled. "Exactly, General," he replied. "They are keeping a splendid
- 204 "Certainly not. Why would she come down here?""I thought she might be useful, Doctor.""Carnes, as you know, I dislike using women because they can't control their emotions or their expressions. She would just be in the way.""It seems to me that sh
- 205 He recovered consciousness to find his feet shackled and fastened to rings set in the concrete of the cavern wall. His head throbbed horribly. He raised his hands and found a huge b.u.mp on his head, from which thickened blood trickled sluggishly down his
- 206 "What about that Russian whose place you took?" he asked. "Maybe we can pump something out of him."Thelma swayed for a moment."Don't, Mr. Carnes," she cried, her voice rising almost to a shriek. "Don't make me think of it! I--I had to--to stab hi
- 207 "Do you remember that Steve Farran song?"She paused, frowning thoughtfully. There were a lot of Steve Farran songs, but after a moment she picked the right one, and sang it softly ..."O moon whereo'er the clouds fly, Beyond the willow tree, There is a
- 208 "Nora tried to get them to stop it, Father, but she couldn't get in to see anybody but the butler. He told her he'd tell Mrs. Keith, but nothing happened. It's just as loud as before.""Well, as long as Donny doesn't mind--""He just says that. You
- 209 As they roared over the ice Garin wondered if it might have been speech--from, perhaps, a secret enemy expedition, such as the Kattack one.In his sealed c.o.c.kpit he did not feel the bite of the frost and the s.h.i.+p rode smoothly. With a little sigh of
- 210 CHAPTER FOUR.The Defeat of the Ancient Ones "In the days before the lands of the outer world were born of the sea, before even the Land of the Sun (Mu) and the Land of the Sea (Atlantis) arose from molten rock and sand, there was land here in the far sou
- 211 "As an outlander I am not bound by their limits," returned Garin, "as you will learn if you do not call off your stinking pack."The master of the Caves laughed. "You are as the Tand, a fool without a brain. Never shall you see the Caverns again--""
- 212 "We shall claim protection from the Gibi of the cliff. By the law they must give us aid," said Thrala, as, turning up her long robe, she began to run lightly. Garin picked up her cloak and drew it across his shoulder to hide his welts. When he could no
- 213 As he spoke Kepta swaggered through the tall gra.s.s to call a greeting: "Ho, rock dweller, I would speak with you--"Dandtan edged around the screen, Garin a pace behind."I see you, Kepta.""Good. I trust that your ears will serve you as well as your
- 214 "Fifty-five!" The doctor leafed through the medical record on his desk. "But this is incredible. You haven't had a checkup in almost ten years!""I guess I haven't," said Wheatley, apologetically. "I'd been feeling pretty well until--""Feeling
- 215 Pete shook his head. "Hundredweight."The captain raised his eyebrows. "I see. And there are--" he consulted the papers in his hand--"roughly two hundred and twenty colonists here on Baron IV. Is that right?""That's right.""Seventy-four men, eigh
- 216 There has always been strong sympathy for the poor, meek, downtrodden slave--the kindly little man, oppressed by cruel and overbearing masters. Could it possibly have been misplaced...?Jurgen, Prince Trevannion, accepted the coffee cup and lifted it to hi
- 217 "Our Emperor sent us. That is his picture, behind me. But we are not his slaves. He is merely the chief man among us. Do your Masters not have one among them who is chief?""That's right," Chmidd said to Hozhet. "In the Convocation, your Lord-Master
- 218 n.o.body said anything for a few minutes. Then Rovard Javasan, the Chief of Administration and the owner of the mountainous Khreggor Chmidd, rose."Lords and Gentlemen, we cannot resist anything like this," he said. "We cannot even resist the force they
- 219 "We hadn't thought of that," Khreggor Chmidd said. "A slave, even a chief-slave, was never allowed to have money of his own, and if he got hold of any, he couldn't spend it. But now...." A glorious vista seemed to open in front of him. "And he can
- 220 Two days before the opening of the Convocation, the Irma came into radio-range, five light-hours away, and began transmitting in taped matter at sixty-speed. Erskyll's report and his own acknowledged; a routine "well done" for the successful annexation
- 221 "Right away, Mr. Melroy," the box replied.Replacing the handphone, Melroy wondered, for a moment, why there had been a hint of suppressed amus.e.m.e.nt in his secretary's voice. Then the door opened and he stopped wondering. Dr. Rives wasn't a him; sh
- 222 "The union's gotta be represented while these tests is going on," the union steward announced. "Mr. Crandall says I'm to stay here an' watch what you do to these guys.""This man working for us?" Melroy asked Puryear."Yes. Koffler, Julius. Electr
- 223 "I will undoubtedly be there, complete with Dr. Rives," Melroy replied. "It will be a pleasure!"An hour later, Ben Puryear called from the reactor area, his voice strained with anger."Scott, do you know what those--" He gargled obscenities for a mom
- 224 The newspaper stories made heroes out of both of us. They said it was miraculous that Larry, who had fallen right on top of the grenade, had managed to get it away from himself and so placed that when it exploded no one was hurt.For it did go off--and the
- 225 The other little girl was pushed forward. "Now, who are you?" Miss Burton asked."I'm Doris Palit. I went with Carolyn to the bathroom-"Miss Burton made a sound of annoyance. Imagine losing two children and not noticing it right away. The other teache
- 226 "We get as much as we want," replied Manto carelessly."Gosh, I wish I did."Miss Burton collected her brood. "Come together, children, I have something to say to you. Soon it will be time to go in and hear Mr. George. Now, if Mr. George is so kind as
- 227 Peter Wayne took the letter out of the machine, broke the seal, and examined it curiously. It was an official communication from the Interstellar Exploration Service. It read: FROM: Lieutenant General Martin Scarborough, I.E.S.TO: Captain Peter Wayne, Pre
- 228 "Yeah," said Wayne. "The question is: was he wearing just the helmet, or the whole suit? If he was wearing the whole suit, we're not going to be as well protected as we thought, even with our fancy suits."Fifteen minutes pa.s.sed slowly before the me
- 229 Petersen shrugged and rubbed his hands against his iron-grey temples. "Captain," he said finally, "you have a very fine record. You have never before been known to strike an enlisted man for any cause whatever. I hold that in your favor.""Thank you,
- 230 That meant the others had heard the rock hitting Hollingwood's plexalloy helmet. They were coming toward him.Wayne sprang back defensively and glanced around. He hoped there were only five of them, that the rule of six was still being maintained. Otherwi
- 231 "He's our first president," said Hudson. "Our George Was.h.i.+ngton, you might say.""What is the purpose of this visit, Mr. Hudson?""We'd like to establish diplomatic relations. We think it would be to our mutual benefit. After all, we are a sist
- 232 "No, that's one thing I never tried.""Me, either. How about you, Chuck?""Not me," said the ex-amba.s.sador extraordinary bluntly.Cooper squatted down beside the coals of the cooking fire and twirled the spit. Upon the spit were three grouse and hal
- 233 "They wouldn't do that. They know what the thing they have found would mean. They wouldn't sell us out.""Hudson came with a preposterous proposition," said the man from the state department."They had to protect themselves!" yelled the general. "I
- 234 The chief of Central Intelligence was white-lipped when he finished talking."You're sure of your information?" asked the President."Mr. President," said the CIA chief, "I've never been more sure of anything in my entire life."The President looked
- 235 "That's what I said. What were you doing all that time?"Adams grasped the table and hung on. "But it wasn't....""Yes," said the general to the operator. "Yes, I'll wait."He held his hand over the receiver and looked inquiringly at Adams. "I im
- 236 "Skip it," he said."That sure is a beautiful picture," she said. "Looks just like heaven or something.""Or something," said the painter. He took a list of names from his smock pocket. "Duncan, Duncan, Duncan," he said, scanning the list. "Yes--
- 237 "The way to find adventure is to go after it," he murmured. "And this is the invitation!"It was not many minutes later that he sprang out of a taxi at the front of the building in which Dr. Travis Whiting made his home and maintained a private experim
- 238 It was this monster that had spilt the pool of blood drying on the floor, near the door. And it was these glistening, green, snake-like tentacles that had crumpled the revolver into a broken ma.s.s of steel!Abruptly the machine-monster darted forward, run
- 239 "If I kill it," he murmured, "I may never find Agnes. And if I let it carry me off, it may take me where she is."He walked toward the monster, across the red sand.It stood uncertainly upon green metal legs, seeming to stare at him strangely with eye-l
- 240 The Golden Age of Science Fiction.Volume III.An Anthology of 50 Short Stories.by Various.THE MAN WHO CAME EARLY. By Poul Anderson Yes, when a man grows old he has heard so much that is strange there's little more can surprise him. They say the king in Mi
- 241 I felt some cheer was needed, and ordered a cask of my best and strongest ale broached. An evil Norn made me do that, but no man escapes his weird. Our bellies seemed all the emptier now when our noses drank in the sputter of a spitted joint, and the ale
- 242 "Jim, don't go. I'd rather not be alone just now.""Well." He looked at her, keeping his expression blank. "All right, dear. How about some coffee? I could stand another cup." And he thought: Tomorrow I'll go. I'll talk to Holland tomorrow."Let
- 243 There are so many stars in an asteroid sky that they look like clouds; like ma.s.sive, heaped-up silver clouds floating slowly around the inner surface of the vast ebony sphere that surrounds you and your tiny foothold. They are near enough to touch, and
- 244 Twenty years is a long time to live in antic.i.p.ation. At least, Professor Pettibone thought so--until the twenty years were up.This was to be the day, but of course Professor Pettibone had no way of knowing it. He arose, as he had been doing for the pre
- 245 "And miss the chance to address Congress this year? We've worked too long for this; I don't want to m.u.f.f it now. We've all the statistical proof we need, even to convince those pinchpenny halfwits. During the past eight years we've handled more th
- 246 "Mr. Stern?" he asked, throwing away the empty package.Stern looked with hard eyes at the youthful reporter. He recognized the type."So they're sending around cubs now," he said."I'm no cub--I've been on the paper a whole year," the reporter prot
- 247 "Poor, dear Schaughtowl," said Curtis gently.It was unmistakable now--the skin actually brightened and emitted a sort of eerie, luminous glow.Curtis leaned over and put his hand on what would have been Schaughtowl's neck. The loose skin writhed joyousl
- 248 The foundling could not have been more than three years old. Yet he held a secret that was destined to bring joy to many unhappy people.Unlike Gaul, the north continent of Venus is divided into four parts. No Caesar has set foot here either, nor shall one
- 249 She paused again, frowning in thought. "Well, they traveled a long, long way and saw many things. Then one day something went wrong."Her voice was low and soft. It had the quality of a dream, the texture of a zephyr, but the little boy was still wide aw
- 250 But Toolls was wrong. They had forgotten one thing. A minor detail, relatively....On Toolls' world his race, in the course of its evolution, had adjusted itself to its own particular environment. Logically, the final result was that they evolved into bei
- 251 Conger picked up the Slem-gun and held it against his cheek. The metal of the gun was cool and smooth. He practiced moving the sight. It was a beautiful gun, the kind of gun he could fall in love with. If he had owned such a gun in the Martian desert-on t
- 252 "No. That's right."They drove in silence. Conger studied the outline of the girl. Probably she was the boy's mistress. Perhaps she was his trial wife. Or had they developed trial marriage back so far? He could not remember. But surely such an attracti
- 253 "What is it?" he said. "What do you want?" He looked in the direction she had pointed. "I don't see anything.""They're coming.""They? Who? Who are coming?""They are. The police. During the night the Sheriff had the state police send cars. All
- 254 But the squinting eyes at the telescope had seen something first. They had seen the spare form of the district attorney throw itself from the chair as if it had been dealt a blow--or had received an electric shock.Blinky put in new fuses--heavier ones--an
- 255 Eleven-thirty by the watch on Robert Delamater's wrist found him seated in the bow of a speed-boat the following morning. They patrolled slowly up and down the sh.o.r.e. There were fellow operatives, he knew, scores of them, posted at all points of vanta
- 256 It is the White House that draws most strongly at the interest and curiosity of the homely, common throng that visits the capital.But there were no casual visitors at the White House on the seventh of September. Certain Senators, even, were denied admitta
- 257 "Receptive?""Fearful. That's the condition. So I didn't want to tell you because you must not let yourself become afraid, Naomi. We're clearing trees from the land, in certain areas. And it's their planet, after all. Fear is their weapon and fear c
- 258 It was all over. She and the tree bit the dust together. But the tree was dead, and Naomi merely fainting, and Ted would soon be home ...Contents SERVICE WITH A SMILE.BY CHARLES L. FONTENAY.Herbert was truly a gentleman robot. The ladies' slightest wish
- 259 "No. He's just having a physical checkup. Seems to be worried about his heart. Dr. Fenwick didn't need me since it's a routine job, so I took Brutus for a walk."Trent nodded. "That's a bit of luck. I think I'll stick around and give Gaddon a lift
- 260 Gaddon moved closer to the soldier, and then suddenly his hand came out of his coat pocket and there was a gun in it."Drop your rifle, soldier. Quick!"The guard stared at the scientist in shocked astonishment."What is this, sir? A gag?"Gaddon motioned
- 261 And the glow grew.And suddenly the hissing of the exploding rocket fuel began to diminish in volume. The apex of the flight was nearly at hand then.And the glow around Gaddon began to color. From a weird phosph.o.r.escent whiteness it changed to a dull bu
- 262 Gaddon's mind fought to the fore, took control of that feline man-shape that was his, struggled to its feet and moved in a lithe bound to the opposite side of the chamber. A clawed hand reached up where Gaddon knew the release mechanism of the door lay,
- 263 He fought to keep his consciousness as he saw the beast turn away from him, satisfied that he was out of the way. Then he saw it leap at the stunned figure of Fenwick.He heard the girl scream in terror and he saw Fenwick's arm come up with the hypodermic
- 264 Contents THE LAST SUPPER.By T. D. Hamm Hampered as she was by the child in her arms, the woman was running less fleetly now. A wave of exultation swept over Guldran, drowning out the uneasy feeling of guilt at disobeying orders.The instructions were manda
- 265 Lenore felt a thrill of secret pleasure go through her, a feeling of possessing a delicious secret, a delightful sensation of reckless gaiety, of life stirring throughout the sleepy s.h.i.+p, of a web of secrets and countersecrets hidden from everyone but
- 266 "Too late, Buster, our planes are leaving. Goodbye, dead man!"And we had to run for our planes. Danny's pitch sounded pretty weak to me, even though Orley was superst.i.tious, but I didn't get to tell Danny that until nearly five years later."I think
- 267 The magnetic field cut off and he instantly raced his extensor motors to leap forward. Coleman took a plastic box out of his pocket and held his thumb over a switch inset into its top."Don't make any quick moves, junk-yard, this little transmitter is ke
- 268 "Beautiful workmans.h.i.+p. Is that all you use?" he asked."I never cared much for guns," I answered. "I've always thought a bow gave the animal more of an even chance for his life."We talked then on the various aspects of hunting and how the crisp
- 269 "Wait a minute." He looked wildly about him. Valier hadn't been built with a view toward stowaways; and every cubic inch of s.p.a.ce was crammed with something, except for the pa.s.sageway with its ladder, leading up from the main motor section. Well,
- 270 "We shall visit the second planet first of all," directed 25X-987, who was in charge of this particular expedition of the Zoromes, "and on the way there we shall cruise along near the third planet to see what we can of the surface. We may be able to te
- 271 "Do you really want to know how long you were dead before we found you?" asked 25X-987. "It would be interesting to find out.""Yes, I should like very much to know," replied the professor."Our greatest mathematician, 459C-79, will tell it to you."
- 272 by Murray Leinster The importance of a matter is almost entirely a matter of your att.i.tude. And whether you call something "a riot" or "a war" ... well, there is a difference, but what is it?n.o.body ever saw the message-torp. It wasn't to be expec
- 273 Patrolman Willis blinked again. Then he saw. The Cerberus carried one set of emergency-landing rockets, for use in a descent on a refuge planet if the need arose. The need had arisen and the Cerberus had used them. Then, from somewhere, another set of roc
- 274 Before the syllable was finished, Patrolman Willis pressed hard on the overdrive b.u.t.ton. There came the always-nauseating sensation of going into overdrive combined with the even more unpleasant sensation of coming out of it. The squad s.h.i.+p was som
- 275 "There is a s.h.i.+p here," he said uneasily. "It is a human s.h.i.+p. There are humans in it. The s.h.i.+p is disabled."Sergeant Madden affected surprise."Yeah? How come?""It ar-rived two days ago," said the interpreter. Then he plunged. "We br-
- 276 He shook his head wearily. "What's the use? It is for this we are fighting our war, and we thought if we took one of you here, showed him the undeniable truth of our statue.... Well, will you at least return to your people with a tale of what you have s
- 277 Farrow lowered his arm, but kept the gun in his hand.The natives drew near enough for their faces to be seen. The leader was casting frightened glances from side to side and ahead of him as he came. The other two stared straight ahead, their faces rigid,
- 278 "May I?" said Loveral finally, waving his long fingers toward the living room."Oh, yes," said the woman. "Of course, Mr. Loveral." And as she spoke Loveral had the impression she might suddenly begin crying.Loveral followed the woman into the house,
- 279 The second figure arose and faced them and again Carnes received a shock. While the likeness was not so, striking, there was no doubt that the second man would have readily pa.s.sed for Carnes himself in a dim light or at a little distance. Dr. Bird burst
- 280 "I'm sorry that I did it, Carson, but only because the results were so poor. We had planned on Williams for a month and I wanted him. And Bird was so easy that I couldn't resist it.""And what did you get? Not as much menthium as would have come from
- 281 "Open the main door!" Carnes snapped.Slavatsky made a move toward the light, and Carnes' gun roared deafeningly in the confined s.p.a.ce. The heavy bullet smashed into the wall an inch from the dwarf's hand and he started back."Open the main door!"
- 282 They all knew he was a s.p.a.cer because of the white goggle marks on his sun-scorched face, and so they tolerated him and helped him. They even made allowances for him when he staggered and fell in the aisle of the bus while pursuing the hara.s.sed littl
- 283 Hogey gripped fistfuls of the dry sand and cursed between his teeth, while his eyes wandered over the sky. They came to rest on the sliver of light--the s.p.a.ce station--rising in the west, floating out in Big Bottomless where the gang was--Nichols and G
- 284 Tommy sighed. "In a word--yes. So far we've gotten nowhere at a thousand miles an hour.""I can't do it!" the cosmetician wailed, hurling himself down on a chair and burying his face in his hands. "I've failed. Failed!"The Grdznth sitting on the s
- 285 THE RETURN.By H. Beam Piper and John J. McGuire I.Altamont cast a quick, routine glance at the instrument panels and then looked down through the transparent nose of the helicopter at the yellow-brown river five hundred feet below. Next he sc.r.a.ped the
- 286 "There's a gun up there," he said. "Looks like a four-pounder. Bra.s.s. I knew that smith-shop was also a foundry. See that little curl of smoke? That's the gunner's slow-match."I'd thought maybe that thing on the island was a powder mill. That wo
- 287 "Oh, photographs, which you can enlarge. I can understand that. You mean, you can make many copies of them?""That's right. And you shall have copies, as soon as we can take the originals back to Fort Ridgeway, where we have the equipment for enlarging
- 288 "Well, this is probably it," Altamont said. "We didn't have to bother fussing around with that flag after all. That hump over there looks as though it had been a small building, and there's nothing corresponding to it on the city map. That may be the
- 289 It was the smooth body of a little boy.That was ridiculous. He was a man of forty-three; an army officer, a chemist, once a best-selling novelist. He had been married, and divorced ten years ago. He looked again at his body. It was only twelve years old.
- 290 "Tyrrell discusses that dilemma, and doesn't dispose of it. I think I can. If somebody has real knowledge of the future, then the future must be available to the present mind. And if any moment other than the bare present exists, then all time must be t
- 291 s.h.i.+eld 8805 This candy store is called Chris's. There must be ten thousand like it in the city. A marble counter with perhaps five stools, a display case of cigars and a bigger one of candy, a few dozen girlie magazines hanging by clothespin-sort-of
- 292 "Sorry. I have to call the office." I turned my back on him and headed for the car.The noise was louder, and the flashes in the sky brighter--it looked as though they were moving this way. Well, I didn't have any money tied up in the car, so I wasn't
- 293 "Another thing," George said. "If we can talk with them we can learn everything we've tried to know in all our work and solve in a minute what we're ready to spend the whole summer, even years, digging for."Sidney brightened. "That's what we wante
- 294 "That's gone, too.""I'll get it!" Sidney declared. "I've just forgotten it for a minute. I'll remember!""No," said George, "you won't."Sidney looked around. "There must be something left." He thought. "The atlatl lances they shot at us!
- 295 "That pot busted the pump house 'lectric line, Johnny, when it went sailing," he said. "Miz Thompson wants to pump up some water and on top of that, the batteries are down. You got time to fix the line?"Johnny paused and surveyed the kitchen. "I'm
- 296 The squad chief stared incredulously at his counter and banged it against the side of the station wagon. Still the needle held in the normal zone. He banged it harder and suddenly the needle dropped to zero as Hetty and her ranch hands peered over the AEC
- 297 "Look, commissioner," he broke in, "I can't put a stop to those stories. What? I said I can't put a stop to the stories for one reason. They're true."The only sound that came from the phone was the steady hum of the line."Are you there, John?" Pe
- 298 The fact that Sally had gone dry had been kept a carefully guarded national secret. To keep up the pretense and show to the world that America still controlled the only proven method of manned s.p.a.ce travel, the Joint Chiefs of Staff voted to expend two
- 299 When d.i.c.kens was gone the Chief scowled at his trouble-shooter. "Paul, you're bad for discipline around here. Can't you even knock before you enter? How is Nicaragua?"Paul Koslov slumped into a leather easy-chair and scowled. "I did knock. Most of
- 300 The Britisher rapped, "You keep mentioning our team but according to the dossier we carry on you, Mr. Koslov, you are neither British nor even a Yankee. And you ask me to turn over our complete Soviet machinery."Paul came to his feet and leaned over the