Classicly Books
Colloquies on Society
Robert SoutheyIt was in 1824 that Robert Southey, then fifty years old, published “Sir Thomas More, or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society,” a book in two octavo volumes with plates illustrating lak..
Harvesting Ants and Trap-Door Spiders
J. Traherne MoggridgeClaudius Ælianus, who lived in the time of Hadrian, gives a detailed account of the habits which he attributes to ants, from which the following is a translation: "In summer time, after harvest, while..
Space-Trap At Banya Tor
W. J. MatthewsSpace-Trap At Banya Tor, a short story by W. J. Matthews. Wheelwright leaned back, clasping his knee in its black and silver hose. His eyes fell. "I can't quite feature it. Perhaps he thought he..
Design For Doomsday
Bryce WaltonWith infinite caution, Venard disclosed the memory-crystal, taking it with a kind of dignified stealth from beneath the rags that had once been a shirt. Dreamily he studied the small, delicate translu..
The Herschels and Modern Astronomy
Agnes Mary ClerkeSir John Herschel’s life has yet to be written. The published materials for it are scanty, although they have been reinforced by the inclusion in the late Mr. Graves’s “Life of Sir William Rowan Hamil..
Flight From Time
Alfred CoppelThen Malenson frowned. Without the master timepiece no clock on board would run, since they were all only terminals of the master system. He hurried to his stateroom and checked the wall clock. It sme..
Goma's Follicles
Dorothy De CourcyGoma brushed him aside and strode out of the hut. He was joined by his retinue which closed in about him, rudely shoving Thurwinker to one side. In silence, the procession marched up the street, appar..
The Green Dream
Bryce WaltonOutside the synthetic shell of the hut, in the fetid heart of the Venusian swamp Sector 5, a serpent hissed as it raised its pointed head from the slime and sank back again. A gigantic flying Gruoon g..