Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy

Our coming world

On my daily afternoon strolls on West Riverside Drive Parkway, between 85th and 87th Streets in New York, I noticed a young man about thirty years old sitting alone, always on the same bench, for long periods looking up into the sky or fumbling in his brief case and reading hi...

Chapters

1. CHAPTER I

On my daily afternoon strolls on West Riverside Drive Parkway, between 85th and 87th Streets in New York, I noticed a young man about thirty years old sitting alone, always on t...

2. CHAPTER II

The next day, at the same hour, I found the Lieutenant sitting in the hot sun on the same bench. I asked him if he would like to walk a couple of blocks further, where it was no...

3. CHAPTER III

The next morning after breakfast _en famille_, Xora led me outside and into a hangar, where a few planes of different sizes were standing. She went to a corner closet where ther...

4. CHAPTER IV

For more than a month the Lieutenant was absent from his parkway bench, but he corresponded with me from different cities. One day, after his return, I met him by appointment at...

5. CHAPTER V

"My emotional outburst yesterday was a relief to me," he said, "but I would have preferred having it in privacy. Since I am now calm I have here a typewritten copy of the narrat...

6. CHAPTER VI

A week after our first meeting, we again met in Sun-Rank Banard's library. Addressing Mr. Galoway, he said, "I am very sorry to hear that you have failed to find the missing ele...

7. CHAPTER VII

Sun-Rank Banard remarked, "It's time for lunch, so let's adjourn to the thought transmission-proof dining room. Our women folk are away visiting, so we will be by ourselves, and...

8. CHAPTER VIII

Sun-Rank Banard asked me if it would be convenient for us to make an all around planet tour of visits to their different continents and races. They all would like to welcome you...

9. CHAPTER IX

When I left you some time ago, I made a trip to the West coast. In the veterans hospitals I contacted many disabled veterans who had just returned from the battle fields in Kore...

10. CHAPTER X

After a very friendly parting with all our friends, we embarked on the Martian airship and were on our way to earth. We at once made a visit to our own plane which we found in p...