Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy

Pied Piper of Mars

Kummer, Frederic Arnold, 1913-1990; Leydenfrost, Alexander, 1888-1961 [Illustrator]· 2 chapters· 7,345 words

In all the solar system there is no city quite like Mercis, capital of Mars. Solis, on Venus, is perhaps more beautiful, some cities of Earth certainly have more drive and dynamitism, but there is a strange inscrutable air about Mercis which even terrestials of twenty years' r...

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1. Part 1

In all the solar system there is no city quite like Mercis, capital of Mars. Solis, on Venus, is perhaps more beautiful, some cities of Earth certainly have more drive and dynam...

2. Part 2

But his words held no force, and Elath Taen was nodding sleepily under the influence of the weird dream-music. Ranson knew he should act, swiftly, while he could; but the moveme...