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House Operator

by S. M. Tenneshaw

Rafferty was a gambler of the old school. He didn't believe in any of the fancy electronic gadgets that the casinos went in for these days, didn't much care for the psionic games of chance and other tricky and probably rigged affairs. Give him a good poker game any time, and he would be happy.He stood in the door of the Ganymede Casino, outlining h..

The adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys and family

by Henry Mayhew

THE GREAT EXHIBITION was about to attract sight-seers of all the world—the sight-seers, who make up nine-tenths of the human family. The African had mounted his ostrich. The Crisp of the Desert had announced an excursion caravan from Zoolu to Fez. The Yakutskian Shillibeer had already started the first reindeer omnibus to Novogorod. Penny cargoes w..

The Shadow-Eater

by Benjamin De Casseres

The Shadow-Eater is a collection of American poems written by Benjamin De Casseres.The ProtagonistTantara! Tantaro!The Tongueless OneThe Shrine in the MistMy Comic PerspectiveThe PeeperThe Circle-That-Looks-Like-A-lineMy Divine HateThe Rotted IdealThe Vision MaleficDyingThe Dead Who LiveExvolvedThe God of NegationGodwardBeyond SenseThe Cynic of Naz..

What the Judge Saw

by Edward Abbott Parry

What the Judge Saw: Being Twenty-Five Years in Manchester by One Who Has Done It.It would be absurd for modern visitors to Manchester, rushing away from the city in a luxurious dining car, plunging beneath the Disley Golf Links and emerging among the picturesque Derbyshire crags, to throw themselves into the romantic humour of the heroes of ’45 and..

Roster of the Rainbow division (Forty-Second)

by Harold Stanley Johnson

Having found, after three weeks in our mobilization camp, that there was a great desire on the part of the officers and men of individual organizations to become acquainted with their co-workers, and realizing the necessity of personal contact for our mutual benefit to secure the co-ordination of each branch of the service into a unit of the highes..

The Secret Play

by Ralph Henry Barbour

A blue runabout chugged blithely along Troutman Street, in the town of Clearfield, one afternoon in mid-September, honking hoarse warnings at the intersections of other thoroughfares and rustling the yellow and russet leaves, which, because of an unprecedently early frost two nights before, had already sprinkled the pavement...

A Madman on Board

by Robert Silverberg

Major Hawes smiled politely. "You'll be put to work in the jetroom of the Satellite, making sure our noble orbiting wheel stays warm and cozy. You'll be feeding radioactives to the converter. You'll be doing a lot of jobs robots could do twice as well, and after a year or so of it your bodies will start to rot and you'll fall apart and you'll get t..

Rescue Mission

by Robert Silverberg

Mason switched on the fore visi-plate and the mottled grey-and-blue surface of Mordarga became visible ahead of him. The planet Mordarga was one of the universe's potential trouble-spots. That was why the Solar System Government had sent a team of its intelligence agents there.But they had planned on a leisurely, detailed reconnaissance of the plan..