Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy

Another World: Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah

The fact that there is a plurality of worlds, that, in other words, the planets of our solar system are inhabited, has been so generally maintained by modern astronomers, that it almost takes its place among the truths commonly accepted by the large body of educated persons. A...

Chapters

17. Chapter 17

In certain parts of the bottom of the great ravine is a liquid, the admixture of refuse of all kinds. After some years this liquid becomes of a golden colour for the depth of ab...

8. Chapter 8

On occasions when some of the gentlemen present would rather not be amongst the aspirants, it is amusing to see them retire behind the others, hoping to escape without offence a...

10. Chapter 10

4. Kamouska.--A loving little animal like a bird, very beautiful and gentle, with an eye of jet black, and of great brilliancy, but softened when the little thing wishes to be p...

14. Chapter 14

Formerly numbers of persons were affected by the deposits, which, left by flies on meats and provisions generally, caused irritation of the bowels, diarrhoea, and vomit, and wer...

12. Chapter 12

Before my reign eminent men, statesmen, legislators, and philosophers, scarcely _condescended_ to notice such "trifles" as were comprised in the nurture and care of infants. Per...

15. Chapter 15

I had frequently expressed my convictions to the ablest medical men, but they held to their opinions and practice with unyielding tenacity. Our doctors at that time thought that...

13. Chapter 13

For giving the desired strength we most commonly employ "Tree-earth Baths,"--that is to say, baths of fresh earth taken from beneath the roots of certain trees, in which the boy...

11. Chapter 11

By our laws every woman, however high in rank, who elects to remain single, is obliged to follow a calling adapted to her capacity and inclination. This interesting person posse...

16. Chapter 16

Both he and his supposed "enemy" were present at a dinner, given by a high official, the chief Knowledge-tester or Examiner. Our dining-tables are semicircular, and the guests a...

3. Chapter 3

Some said that the design would be beautiful as the subject of a poem-- as the aspiration of a great mind to arrive at an ideal perfection, which could not however be realised u...

7. Chapter 7

The different stages of my progress in creating the Allmanyuka, or new food, substituted by me for a strong, stimulating, and injurious condiment previously in general use, are...

9. Chapter 9

Every flower has a well-known language of its own; many convey comparatively long expressions of emotion, both pleasing and the reverse, and the meaning of each may be qualified...

6. Chapter 6

Formerly the chief duty of physicians was to wait patiently until disease had worked great and even fatal mischief. Their chief occupation now is to preserve the patient's healt...

5. Chapter 5

As the work progressed, stages were constructed at different heights on which buildings were erected, where the workmen and their families lived until the task was completed, th...

4. Chapter 4

Numbers who, if their early faults had grown into confirmed vices, would later have led a life of crime, and become inhabitants of dungeons and emissaries of evil, now grew into...

2. Chapter 2

The principal musical instrument--Description--Four sets of chords--Strings of electricity--Marvellous variation and depression of the notes--Echoes and responses--Diapason chan...

18. Chapter 18

Near the keeper is a party of men furnished with a low caravan, who, while the animal is engaged eating the nuts, throw large nets over him. He struggles violently--it is, indee...

1. Chapter 1

The fact that there is a plurality of worlds, that, in other words, the planets of our solar system are inhabited, has been so generally maintained by modern astronomers, that i...