četvrtak, 28. ožujka 2024.

Parr came to Earth as the advance guard for an invasion. His mission: to see that every person received a package that was being mailed— SPECIAL DELIVERY By Kris Neville - https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/65886/pg65886-images.html

 A cannonade of shell fire met the silver listening post as it zipped across the moonlit desert. It twisted erratically, trying to dodge. Then a radar controlled gun chuckled to itself, and the listening post faltered in flight, slipped air, plunged sandward.

In the Advanceship, far above and to the west, one of the Knougs pressed a button and the listening post exploded in a white flare.

Afterwards, no fragments could be found. The newspapers said the usual thing. The government issued the usual profession of disbelief—and finally even the gunner became convinced of the usual explanation: he had tried to pot Venus.

While on the Advanceship the Knougs continued to prepare for D-Day.


srijeda, 27. ožujka 2024.

Once a Greech By EVELYN E. SMITH - https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/31664/pg31664-images.html

 


... and it comes out here By LESTER DEL REY - https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/51046/pg51046-images.html

 You get up your courage and go up to a boy selling something that might be papers on tapes.

Souvenir," it announces in a well-modulated voice. "This is a typical gem of the twentieth century, properly cut to 58 facets, known technically as a Jaegger diamond, and approximately twenty carats in size. You can have it made into a ring on the third floor during morning hours for one-tenth credit. If you have more than one child, press the red button for the number of stones you desire