Homeward and BeyondTheories of time, evolution, and philosophy are incorporated into nine science fiction tales about space travel, alien creatures, and futuristic societies dominated by onmipotent world rulers. |
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Page 23
... wind ghosts dance in aurochs ' hides before us , reindeer - antlered , and the first joint of the left middle finger is cut off and given them to eat . More I may not say . When it is over , we are men and can take wives . This had ...
... wind ghosts dance in aurochs ' hides before us , reindeer - antlered , and the first joint of the left middle finger is cut off and given them to eat . More I may not say . When it is over , we are men and can take wives . This had ...
Page 25
... wind , which was falling anyhow ; but cold breathed from the currents , and I saw ice floes whirl past . During the day , with proper apologies , I had chopped down a small tree . An ax is not a good weapon , I think , but does make a ...
... wind , which was falling anyhow ; but cold breathed from the currents , and I saw ice floes whirl past . During the day , with proper apologies , I had chopped down a small tree . An ax is not a good weapon , I think , but does make a ...
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... wind that rumpled his hair . Most , perhaps all vertebrates were ex- tinct . But lower forms had survived the disaster . Insects , or their equivalent , swarmed on delicate membranes that often threw back the sunlight in rainbows ...
... wind that rumpled his hair . Most , perhaps all vertebrates were ex- tinct . But lower forms had survived the disaster . Insects , or their equivalent , swarmed on delicate membranes that often threw back the sunlight in rainbows ...
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arms asked Ball lightning beneath better blue bones breath Cimbrians cold Danes Dark Queen dead door dwellers Earth Evavy eyes Faustina fear feel felt Ferrier flying saucer galactics girl goblin grew hair hand happened head heard Heruls Hesting Hesting's Hopi human Ioran Judy Jutes Kapellmeister Klak't'klak knew Lady land lifted light light-years Lindquist living look machine Memmius Midworld mind mouth Murdoch Murphy's Nerthus never night nodded once ornithoids Owldoon Pazilliwheep Philon planet plasmoid POUL ANDERSON remember robot Roman science fiction shadow ship Sikyabotoma sing smile Smokesmith soon sophonts spaceship spear stars stood stop supernova sure tell thing thought Timor mortis conturbat tion told took trees Trevelyan Turekian turned Urgo voice walked Webner whispered wildcountry wind wings Wolfram wolframite wonder words Yukiko