"Strayed off again--the young idiot! If he's playing in the shallows, with this tide going out...." Pater let the sentence hang blackly. He leaned upslope as far as he could stretch, angrily scanning the shoreward reaches where light filtered more brightly down through the murky water, where the sea-surface glinted like bits of broken mirror....
“The heart of the wise is in the house of weeping, and the heart of the foolish is in the house of fun,” warned the biblical Ecclesiastes. So for the young beauty Lily Bart, New York at the turn of the century symbolizes not only the Golden Age, but the golden cage. Only a profitable marriage will help her regain the high position lost by the Bart family as a result of her father's bankruptcy - but over and over again Lily misses a profitable chance, consumed either by the demon of self-destruction, or by the expectation of great love. And not without reason she was compared with another...
Daniel Feldman was already a doctor. He violated the rules of the hospital lobby and made a mistake to save his friend's life. Now he avoids pariah, everything, and forbids touching another patient. But there is more and more freedom on Mars. There, Doc Feldman greets the colonizers, even if they are hunted by force. However, Feldman sees himself as the main character, realizing that the Martian plague could soon destroy humanity on two planets. The war began. The world is ready to destroy the colonies of Mars. Treating the plague is the price of peace, and only Feldman can find it....
"It has become increasingly difficult," said the psychologist carefully to the group sitting in his office, "to ignore such actions by the Sur-Malic." He gazed through an open window-wall to where the newsmen's tiny jet-copters glinted beneath a summer sun at the forest's edge. "Of course, I might have predicted it; Sy insisted upon browsing through old city ruins for relaxation, and he seemed to delight in eluding his guard escort."...
This is not an ordinary book about the country of Oz. It, of course, was written in the style of the original work of L. Frank Baum, but Evans included in the story a philosophy, even somewhat controversial. These thoughts, presented in the story, can be mental pabulum, especially for young individuals who have not fully formed their worldview. This philosophy can lead to a better world in which there will be more freedom and honesty and less violence....
They laughed at his notions of heavier-than-air flying machines. But the last laugh he had with Albatross - the most incredible flying machine ever built. Lord of the sky, Robur became a potential conqueror of the world! A fascinating satellite of 20,000 leagues under the sea, Robert the Conqueror explores many of the same topics....
The parable, first published in 1879 in the journal "Russian Herald" in the fifth chapter of the fifth book "Pros and Cons" of the second part of the novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky "The Brothers Karamazov." The author called the “Grand Inquisitor” the “peak” of his last novel. It is an allegorical story by Ivan Karamazov to Alyosha Karamazov on the topic of Christian freedom of will and freedom of conscience....
The old guy didn't have a chance. All he could do was shield his head with limp arms and moan, while this other fellow--a young, husky six-footer--gave him a vicious, cold-blooded beating....
Mother Nature contributes the elements and qualities and “temperament” of the individual; and no matter what the education, occupation, position or experience, those native tendencies persist....
The US Secretary of State receives a letter sent to him and to all other countries stating that the war has been devastating the land for too long and peace is coming. He orders them to destroy the weapons of war and disband the military. The letter ends, "In a year from this date, I will allow disarmament and no more. By the time my orders are ignored, I will quickly destroy every battleship in the world. In the next two months you will know that my words are words. . true. " Signed "The Man Who Will Stop All War". Officials initially dismiss it as a letter from a crank. Then several...
In the future, we may discover new planets; our ships may rocket to new worlds; robots may be smarter than people. But we'll still have slick characters willing and able to turn a fast buck--even though they have to be smarter than Einstein to do it._ Anson Drake sat quietly in the Flamebird Room of the Royal Gandyll Hotel, listening to the alien, but soothing strains of the native orchestra and sipping a drink. He knew perfectly well that he had no business displaying himself in public on the planet Thizar; there were influential Thizarians who held no love for a certain Earthman named...
"Now look," said Remm, pointing to his family. Maker was absent exploring the countryside in the immediate vicinity of their landing site and did not witness the capture of natives or the tests made on him by two satellites....
It was all their fault, Thark growled to himself, increasing his pace as the sleek lines of his ship came into view. Not even the prospect of flying the Prowler lightened his mood this time. The Chaos-loving schools had done too much! They were fine for the unTalented, like humans and now Traiti, but they had probably precipitated a disaster here on Irschcha. Their damnable stress on Imperial rather than planetary allegiance was to blame; it had deprived him of the strongest Talent to appear in many years, Corina Losinj--and it would cost Corina her life soon, if it hadn't already....
Having been born in Paris, Carolina tried to make the best of it, but being a very ardent little American girl, she always felt that her foreign birth was something which must be lived down, so when people asked her where she was born, her reply was likely to be: "Well, I was born in Paris, but I am named for an American State!"...
"Amongst the many uncertainties which this deplorable; patched-up peace has brought us; there is; at least; one significant certainty; my boy. It's the inventor. He's buzzing about our heads like a fly in summer-time; and he's just about as—sticky."...
