Science Fiction
Just speculate for a moment on the enormous challenge to archeology when interplanetary flight is possible ... and relics are found of a race extinct for half a million years! A race, incidentally, that was scientifically so far in advance of ours that they held the secret of...
Just speculate for a moment on the enormous challenge to archeology when interplanetary flight is possible ... and relics are found of a race extinct for half a million years! A...
2. Part 2"I will be on constant call," said Phyfe. "Let me know immediately of any developments." Then the uncertain mask of the executive fell away from the face of the little old scien...
3. Part 3"I don't know. Everything is too pat. I feel as if someone is watching behind us, practically breathing down our necks and urging us on the way he wants us to go. And when we ge...
4. Part 4The enthusiasm of the directors was even greater than that of Illia, if possible. None of them seemed to share the fears of some of the expedition members. And, somehow, in the...
5. Part 5"Destruction of government property _can_ carry the death penalty," said Boarder ominously. "Besides, you're too much of the scientist to do that. You want to see the thing thro...
6. Part 6"Should you be tempted to restore the Hetrarra and believe your science a match for ours, remember that the knowledge required to enter this repository is only the minimum. It i...
7. Part 7Underwood turned in horror. The water level was falling instead of rising. Someone had cut it off at one of the other valves farther along the line and had opened the drain. Air...
8. Part 8Underwood called to Byers and the scooter riders to come in. Slowly, the protective forces withdrew to the ship, and as they did so, the police began firing into the opening por...
9. Part 9The semanticists looked out at the small group. Suddenly, Dreyer uttered sounds that resembled a series of grunts with changing inflections. One of the natives, a woman, rose an...
10. Part 10"There you see it," said Jandro. "The primeval flesh is cut out and placed within its forming box where surgical manipulation and radiation will cause the formation of the speci...
11. Part 11There was a moment of silence, then they grew tense with expectancy as the sound of the door lock clicked in the silence and one of the Disciples entered the room.
12. Part 12"I could not understand why you did not act to forestall your enemies who were so apparent to me. Then I realized that it was because you did not possess the _abasa_ at all. I w...
13. Part 13Gradually, he obtained an understanding of their properties and some of their functions. The _tri-abasa_ was the sensory organ, located at the base of his brain, which could pic...
14. Part 14It was more than just, more than ironic, he thought. It was his high privilege to wipe out some of the guilt that he knew he could never smother or rationalize out of his mind--...