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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
There, sonny-behold the city of your dreams! Good old New York, as
per schedule. . . . Gee! Ain't she great? The slim, self-possessed
youth of twenty hardly seemed to expect an answer; but the man
addressed in this pert manner, though the senior of the pair by six
years, felt that the emotion throbbing in his heart must be allowed
to bubble forth lest he became hysterical. "Old New York, do you
call it?" he asked quietly. The tense restraint in his voice would
perhaps have betrayed his mood to a more delicately tuned ear than
his companion's, but young Howard Devar, heir of the Devar
millions-son of "Vancouver" Devar, the Devar who fed multitudes on
canned salmon, and was suspected of having cornered wheat at least
once, thus woefully misapplying the parable of the loaves and
fishes-had the wit to appreciate the significance of the question,
deaf as he was to its note of longing, of adulation, of vibrant
sentiment.
John Menzies Grant, having breakfasted, filled his pipe, lit it,
and strolled out bare-headed into the garden. The month was June,
that glorious rose-month which gladdened England before war-clouds
darkened the summer sky. As the hour was nine o'clock, it is highly
probable that many thousands of men were then strolling out into
many thousands of gardens in precisely similar conditions; but,
given youth, good health, leisure, and a fair amount of money, it
is even more probable that few among the smaller number thus
roundly favored by fortune looked so perplexed as Grant. Moreover,
his actions were eloquent as words. A spacious French window had
been cut bodily out of the wall of an old-fashioned room, and was
now thrown wide to admit the flower-scented breeze. Between this
window and the right-hand angle of the room was a smaller window,
square-paned, high above the ground level, and deeply recessed - in
fact just the sort of window which one might expect to find in a
farm-house built two centuries ago, when light and air were
rigorously excluded from interiors.
Available as single volumes or as a complete set, this collection
traces the evolution of a literary genre: the British speculative
future war novel. Taking science fiction from the 1890s, this set
explores the various ways in which the science fiction tradition
can be interpreted.
Louis Tracy (1863-1928) was a British journalist, and prolific
writer of fiction. He used the pseudonyms Gordon Holmes and Robert
Fraser, which were at times shared with M. P. Shiel, a collaborator
from the start of the twentieth century.
Louis Tracy (1863-1928) was a British journalist, and prolific
writer of fiction. He used the pseudonyms Gordon Holmes and Robert
Fraser, which were at times shared with M. P. Shiel, a collaborator
from the start of the twentieth century.
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