In one place, a Viking descendant rode on a ship he had never dreamed of; from another, one of Caesar's descendants, and here Apache rode a horse that never roamed the plains. But they were all warriors....
Rod Rankin is hiding from earthly justice on a planet inhabited by robots. He forced the robots to do work on the farm and cannot understand who the robots mean when they tell him that “our people” will come to his farm today....
The sun set behind the Grimaldi plateau, although the diurnal twilight lingered over the ocean. The sky was hazy blue, and deeper tinted waves rocked the whole Earth. For a long crescent, he hung over the horizon there, his light dimmed by sunlight, increasing from a thin crescent to a full disk three times wider than that of the setting sun. Now, at dusk, a huge silver lamp hung over Nardos - the Beautiful City, built on the water. Light flashed above the tall white towers [296], above the ten-mile white adamantine bridge from Nardos to the coast and illuminated the beach on which we...
Is there anything completely beyond human comprehension? Gradually, we can gain a certain understanding of what it is by comparing it with what is understandable. There may exist and perhaps there is a vast realm of reality coexisting with the reality that we know, right around us; but he is "protected" from us. It is possible that we know less than ten percent of the reality around us because of a test of our feelings and our tools that completely block or allow you to completely pass....
Arkot fully pressed the control lever. The ship was filled with tension of current energy, and sparks flashed in the air of the control room, which raced at incredible speed through the darkness of intergalactic space. But suddenly, far left and right, they saw two shining ships sailing parallel to their course! They gloomily clung to the course of the earth's ship, bracketing it like an official guard. Earth scientists looked at them in surprise. “Lord,” muttered Mori, “where could they come from?”...
With the age of nuclear power, the need for hydroelectric sources has disappeared, and with them large dams and reservoirs with their huge wasteful open water surfaces that have evaporated in thousands of acres-feet before they are ever used by people, have disappeared. The ruins of the great rivers were dry; cities and new managed auto farms spanned them. Only smaller rivers and streams continued to flow until they reached a predetermined flow force. Then they disappeared, pouring into tunnels and flowing for hundreds of miles along the underground aqueducts into large storage tanks below...
A very small slip, at just the wrong place, can devastate any enterprise. One tiny transistor can go wrong ... and ruin a multi-million dollar missile. Which would be one way to stop the missiles.... "We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the causes of disaster." Theodore Roosevelt...
You can and you can't; You will and you won't. You'll be damn'd if you do; You'll be damn'd if you don't. – LORENZO DOW; "Definition of Calvinism" We've all heard of the wonderful invention that the Big Corporation or the Utilities suppressed...? Usually, that Wonderful Invention won't work, actually. But there's another possibility, too.......
The New York subway is never quiet, but since there can be a quiet moment in this dirty place, Blake and Helen stood there on the platform, quietly waiting for their train ... and then, after a moment, the place became wild. Then a strange thing began - at first it was just a pulsating sound, like a deep note of some colossal organ somewhere in the tunnels not too far away. Then, when the sound became loud enough to make his teeth itch, the subway tunnels erupted in trembling ribbons of dazzling green flames. Blake hugged Helen to protect her from the strangely explosive light - and flames...
The most dangerous weapon is one you don’t know is charged. The wind blew from the northwest, blinded by snow and boarded up with ice crystals. All the way to the half-mile abyss he fumbled and pulled out, moaning with ice plates. He screamed piercingly, whirled the snow in a dervish dance around the hollow, piled the snow into a long furrow, a plowed ruler, right through the streamlined clouds of snow. The sun shone on a black rock glazed with ice, abysses and ridges and ice bridges. He illuminated the snowy slope to a frozen glare, outlined a black shadow along a long furrow and turned at...
"You can see it - you can watch it - but you must not touch it!" And what could be more frustrating ... when you need to take it in your strongest hands in just one second ... The man finally entered the office of General George Garvers. When the door closed behind him, he saw a general who jumped up from his chair to greet him....
Although the most excellent food can be found on the table of metaphysical thought, there has never been a metaphysical history that sets out the picture of everyday life, in its search for and satisfaction through knowledge of the philosophy of Christ. Knowing the urgent need for such a book among many researchers and students on this topic, and hoping to help satisfy this need, this story is told....
Mankind hid in fear in homes. The largest cities - world capitals - can do nothing with the advancing enemy. The mysterious Horror swallows them. It all started in remote areas populated by small settlements. At night, unknown creatures began to attack the villages, and in the morning only gnawed corpses remained. The survivors in horror babbled about some shadows that could not be done any harm. And now humanity has shuddered. One after another, human settlements disappear under the onslaught of ethereal shadows that all the armies of the world cannot stop. Newspapers shout: “Attack from...
Dekker, returning from outer space, discovered great physical changes in the people of the Earth; changes that would have horrified him five years ago. But now he wanted to be like the others, even if he had to lose his eye and both ears to do this....
