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The Oversight

The Oversight

by Miles J. Breuer

John C. Hastings, senior medical student in the Nebraska State University Medical School at Omaha, looked out of the window of the Packard sedan he was driving down the road along the top of the bluff, and out in the middle of the Missouri River he saw a Roman galley, sweeping down midstream with three tiers of huge oars.A pang of alarm shot throug..

The Ultimate Image

The Ultimate Image

by P. Schuyler Miller

The Ultimate Image is a science fiction short story by P. Schuyler Miller. It was Bill Porter's voice. I put one hand on the balustrade and vaulted into the garden. From behind a mass of shrubbery came sounds of a struggle, and Bill's voice rose again.I plowed through where someone had gone before. Bill, his shirtfront awry, his coat-tails torn and..

An Adventure

An Adventure

by Eleanor F. Jourdain

It is a great venture to speak openly of a personal experience, and we only do so for the following reasons. First, we prefer that our story, which is known in part to some, should be wholly known as told by ourselves. Secondly, we have collected so much evidence on the subject, that it is possible now to consider it as a whole. Thirdly, conditions..

Eyes That Watch

Eyes That Watch

by Raymond Z. Gallun

He, Sam Conway, was back from Mars now. Back from red, ferric deserts no Earthly boot had ever touched before. Back from bitter cold and aching dryness. Back from dazzling yellow hazes of dust and suspended ice crystals. No more need to wear oxygen armor in a thin, ozone-tainted atmosphere now. Back from solitude, and the endless fight to keep aliv..

Modern Swedish Masterpieces -  Short Stories

Modern Swedish Masterpieces - Short Stories

by Charles Wharton Stork

It is curious that, despite the rapid growth of interest in Scandinavian literature through the English-speaking world, there has been up to now no book to represent one of the most brilliant fields of achievement, the Swedish short story. The work of Selma Lagerlof is well known and a volume of Per Hallström has appeared recently, but no attempt h..

The Lightning's Course

The Lightning's Course

by John Victor Peterson

It was only a robot, tiny, chubby, for all the universe like a Ganymedean monkey. It stood in the dark old mansion alone, stiff, immovable. Its pink, bewhiskered, rubberoid face seemed twisted with abject loneliness.... Aye, it stood alone and lonely, as if awaiting the return of its master—The song pulsed in a vibrant, ominous cadence through the ..

Little Mexican & Other Stories

Little Mexican & Other Stories

by Aldous Huxley

Little Mexican & Other Stories is a collection of short stories compiled by Aldous Huxley whose other works include  ANTIC HAY: a novel, CROME YELLOW: a novel, MORTAL COILS: short stories, LIMBO: short stories, LEDA: and other poems, ON THE MARGIN: notes & essays.Some people I know can look back over the long series of their childish h..

A Green Cloud Came

A Green Cloud Came

by Robert W. Lowndes

Her fingers lightly caressed a button on the long table as she half-turned toward him. At this moment, she was glad they still wore the semi-barbaric accoutrements donned for last night's festivities, commemorating the conclusion of the final war—weird, fantastic trappings, selected more for adornment than for approximations of ancient military dre..