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Earth's Maginot Line

Roy Paetzke

The pilot motioned toward the complex mechanism that stood between them and annihilation in the turbulent ionic sea they were swiftly approaching. "I wanted you to be on hand in case anything goes wro..

The Black Man - His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements

William Wells Brown

The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements the biographical works of African-American written by William Wells Brown. The second class are those who are ignorant of the character..

The Servile State

Hilaire Belloc

Society having reached such a condition would be released from its present internal strains and would have taken on a form which would be stable: that is, capable of being indefinitely prolonged witho..

When Time Rolled Back

Ed Earl Repp

Luk-no was a great, stubby trunk of a man who resented Lo's interest in Rog and took every chance to get in his way. His greatest delight was to carry tales of his laziness to Sarak, who would promptl..

In Trust - The Story of a Lady and Her Lover

Mrs. Oliphant

Whoever had looked at Anne Mountford then would not have given much for the chance of her{3} submission. She said nothing, but her upper lip shut down upon the lower with an unrelenting, immovable det..

Into the Sun

John L. Chapman

Lejeune, sprawled out on the pilot's bunk, made no reply. The captain stood before the dull gray view-screen, watched him a moment, thoughtfully. "Can't you reverse the field?" he asked at length. "I'..

A Pair of Them

Evelyn Raymond

By this time Bonny-Gay saw that something was amiss. She half fancied that there were tears in the keeper’s eyes, and she always afterward declared that there were tears in his voice. As for Max, that..

Essay on the Principles of Translation

Alexander Fraser Tytler

Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee, author of the present essay on Translation, and of various works on Universal and on Local History, was one of that Edinburgh circle which was revolving whe..