Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy

Polaris and the Goddess Glorian

On the bridge of the cruiser _Minnetonka_ stood Minos, the Sardanian king, staring southward in the wake of the ship, southward where his lost, dead kingdom lay buried under the soft, cruel snows beyond the unchartered antarctic seas. Ahead of the ship, full of promise, full o...

Chapters

1. CHAPTER I

On the bridge of the cruiser _Minnetonka_ stood Minos, the Sardanian king, staring southward in the wake of the ship, southward where his lost, dead kingdom lay buried under the...

2. CHAPTER II

In illimitable darkness a spark glowed and lived, and the soul of Polaris Janess awoke and once more knew it was a soul. The silence of oblivion was broken by a roaring as of a...

3. CHAPTER III

Like the shape of a mighty wheel with four spokes was the plan of the city of Adlaz--or more like a circle drawn around the angles of a cross, the curved line of the outer bound...

4. CHAPTER IV

Along the black avenue, back to the prison house of Mordo, the captives were marched. For Oleric, through the friendship Brunar bore him, won from that captain the half of a day...

5. CHAPTER V

In the watches of the night arose a great clamor and outcry in the old palace of Bel-Tisam. So loud was the din that it aroused Rose Emer and the Lady Memene from their slumbers...

6. CHAPTER VI

Beyond their knowledge of the working of metals, in which they had great facility, Zenas Wright soon found that the scientists of Nematzin could avail him little in his search f...

7. CHAPTER VII

Dawn, the cheerless gray of clouded winter, crept over the city of Adlaz. In her bed in the prison-palace of Bel-Tisan the dark-haired Princess Memene of Sardanes lay, and besid...

8. CHAPTER VIII

In the early brightness of the morning, the king of Ruthar rode up the southern stretch of the slope toward the wall. With him came old Zenas and Oleric the Red.

9. CHAPTER IX

Seated on her ivory throne in the empty hall of her temple, the Goddess Glorian fought within her heart a battle that was every whit as fierce and hard as that of Ruthar in the...

10. CHAPTER X

Zoar quit the straps where he had held and stood on the head of Ixstus. A triumph shone in the eyes of the master of the amalocs, and a smile spread over his mummified old-ivory...