Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here.
The gifting of animals with human speech is scarcely an unique idea; the idea of a talking horse goes back at least to the siege of Troy, for certainly there must have been some dialogue amongst the Greek warriors enclosed in the wooden horse's belly.
Garin Featherstone is a pilot on an Antarctic expedition to investigate strange readings near the South Pole, when he is compelled to fly his plane down into a mysterious crater.
Two men had died before Syme Rector's guns to give him the key to the ancient city of Kal-Jmar-a city of untold wealth, and of robots that made desires instant commands.
Where the great plain of Tarphet runs up, as the sea in estuaries, among the Cyresian mountains, there stood long since the city of Merimna well-nigh among the shadows of the crags.
What caught Harcourt's eye almost immediately was a disc recorder standing near the desk, together with stacks of discs, some manifestly used, others clearly not yet touched, ready for anyone who might care to use the recorder.
Before Earth put a stop to mankind's exploring the galaxy, some rebels managed to escape into space in sleep ships in a desperate attempt to find habitat worlds they could colonize away from the oppressive Pax dictatorship.
The enlightened days of mental telepathy and ESP should have made the world a better place, but the minute the Rhine Institute opened up, all the crooks decided it was time to go collegiate!
