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1. The Trail of Death
There's sure some sort of hoodoo on these Antarctic expeditions
2. 'It is Some Horrible Inhabitant of Space, Something Unknown to us on Earth'
They were moving sluggishly along the red light, seeming to flow rather than crawl.
3. He Was Trapped—Two Miles Below the Earth
Impossible! What sort of creatures would they be, that could live two miles beneath the surface of the earth?
4. There Was No Struggle, No Attempt at Flight or Resistance
They could see one another, but it was impossible for them to make their voices heard above the rasping of the beetles' legs.
5. The Lord of Space
On the day of the next full moon every living thing on earth will be wiped out of existence
6. He Began to Twist and Turn, as Though Torn by Some Invisible Force
From twenty miles away stabbed the "atom-filtering" rays to Allen Baker in his cell in the death house.
7. A DREAM OF ARMAGEDDON
"I dream very little," I answered. "I doubt if I have three vivid dreams in a year."
8. The Ray Shot Down and Squadrons of Planes Frizzled Like Moths in the Air
In the burning solitude of the great Arizona desert, a young scientist was about to perform an experiment that might have far-reaching results for humanity.
9. In an Inner Room They Found a Diabolical Machine
Astounding Stories of Super-Science, January 1930, by Astounding Stories is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series. You can jump to any chapter in this book here.
10. The Wall of Death
And then Kay had broken through and was hewing madly with great sweeps of the ax.
11. Orris Led the Way to a Great Underground City
It was now two years since Edwin Leland bought the estate for a song and took up his residence in the gloomy old house.
12. A CRITICISM OF CHRISTIANITY
A religious system so many-faced and so enduring as Christianity must necessarily be saturated with truth even if it be not wholly true.
13. The Invisible Death: Out of the Hangman's Hands
"You speak," said Von Kettler, jeering, "as if you really believed that you had the power of life and death over me."
14. Of the eleventh horn of Daniel's fourth Beast
A Seer, Επισκοπος, is a Bishop in the literal sense of the word; and this Church claims the universal Bishoprick.
15. My Friend Stumbled on an Invention That Could Revolutionize Human Life
Certainly, if ever a man found a guinea when he was looking for a pin it is my good friend Professor Gibberne.
16. Murder Madness! 7 Secret Service Men had Completely Disappeared
The engines of the Almirante Gomez were going dead slow. Away up beside her monster funnels her siren blew dismally
17. The Man Who Was Dead
IT was a wicked night, the night I met the man who had died.
18. "More victims," He Observed Grimly to Himself, of the Plane
There was a dull muttering in the sky to the east, and a speck appeared, drew nearer swiftly, grew larger, and became a small army biplane.
19. They withdrew to a spot hacked from the edge of the jungle
The Chief Ranger scowled. "That is what Nymani has gone to find out."
20. A Death More Hideous
Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1931, by Astounding Stories is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series. You can jump to any chapter in this book here. Four Miles Within - Chapter V: A Death More Hideous
21. The New Religion
EVERY great religion has as its psychological reason for existence the mission of compensating for some crying, unsatisfied human need.
22. The Cave of Horror
"Suddenly, for no apparent reason at all, one of the men on guard was jerked into the air feet upwards."
23. Divorce
An Englishman looks at the world by H. G. Wells, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series.
24. Table of Transposed Numbers.
The transposition of figures is a frequent cause of errors in proving accounts and balance sheets.
25. THREE DAYS
“There is, I believe,” said Lincoln. “But for you—! If you would like to occupy yourself with that, we can make you a sworn aeronaut to-morrow.”
26. Invisible Death
The inquest into the mysterious death of Darius Darrow, savant, inventor, recluse and eccentric, resembled a scientific convention.
27. THE PRIMITIVE ARYANS
These Nordic people were destined to play a very important part indeed in the world’s history.
28. The Story of the Last Trump
“Now to God the Father, God the Son——”
29. The Motion of the Planet Neptune Had Become Very Erratic
Ogilvy had already called attention to a suspected retardation in its velocity in December.
30. Volume 3: Nuclear Fusion
Worlds Within Worlds: The Story of Nuclear Energy, Volume 3 (of 3), by Isaac Asimov is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series. You can jump to any chapter in this book here. Volume III, NUCLEAR FUSION: The Energy of the Sun
31. The Story of Nuclear Energy, Volume 1 (of 3): Electricity - Radioactivity
Worlds Within Worlds: The Story of Nuclear Energy, Volume 1 (of 3), by Isaac Asimov is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series. You can jump to any chapter in this book here. Volume I, ELECTRICITY: Radioactivity
32. The Possible Collapse of Civilisation
An Englishman looks at the world by H. G. Wells, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series.
33. THE FIRST SEAGOING PEOPLES
Cnossos was not so much a town as a great palace for the Cretan monarch and his people.
34. OIL-LAMPS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
The oil-lamp and the candle were the mainstays of artificial lighting throughout many centuries.
35. EGYPT, BABYLON AND ASSYRIA
We are entering now upon a thousand years of warfare between the once quite separated civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Nile.
36. THE BEGINNINGS OF LIFE
The earliest rocks in the record are called by geologists the Azoic rocks, because they show no traces of life.
37. Astounding Stories of Super-Science June 1931: Manape the Mighty - Chapter II
"Fate wouldn't allow us to come through what we have only to end things with poisoned darts. It just couldn't happen that way!"
38. The Attack from Space
We had been captured by a race of gigantic beetles.
39. THE FIRST TRUE MEN
These first real human beings we know of in Europe appear already to have belonged to one or other of at least two very distinct races.
40. I Saw the Famous Science Temple with its Constant Stream of Worshippers
The delivery of his country into the clutches of a merciless, ultra-modern religion can be prevented only by Dr. Hagstrom's deciphering an extraordinary code.
41. The Story of Nuclear Energy: The Nuclear Bomb
Worlds Within Worlds: The Story of Nuclear Energy, Volume 3 (of 3), by Isaac Asimov is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series. You can jump to any chapter in this book here. Volume III, NUCLEAR FISSION: The Nuclear Bomb
42. The Structure of Space According to the General Theory of Relativity
Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.
43. THE ADVANCEMENT OF SOCIALISM
In that spirit, and with no presumption of finality, this little book of explanations is given to the world.
44. Monsters of Moyen
IN 1935 the mighty genius of Moyen gripped the Eastern world like a hand of steel.
45. Holocaust
It passed beneath the planes, that were motionless by contrast.
46. 1811 Dictionary in the Vulgar Tongue: Section E
1811 Dictionary in the Vulgar Tongue, by Francis Grose is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.
47. SERFS, SLAVES, SOCIAL CLASSES, AND FREE INDIVIDUALS
On the whole, the common men were probably well content to live under lord or king or god and obey their bidding.
48. THE OLD MAN WHO KNEW EVERYTHING
“Dark and damnable,” said the old man suddenly. “Dark and damnable. Turned out of my room among all these dangers.”
49. THE NEANDERTHAL MEN, AN EXTINCT RACE
About 200 centuries ago or earlier, real men of our own species, if not of our own race, came drifting into the European area.
50. PRIMITIVE NEOLITHIC CIVILIZATIONS
We have to remember that human races can all interbreed freely and that they separate, mingle and reunite as clouds do.
51. Tanks: The Deciding Battle of the War of 1932
Row after row of the monsters roared by, going greedily with hungry guns into battle.
52. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
“A play!” he said, slapping his thighs. “You should finish it. I’m a writer, too, you know.”
53. The History of Ancient Physics
The species of objects in the Heavens are few in number; the Sun, the Moon, the Planets, and the Fixed Stars, are all which those philosophers could distinguish
54. GODS AND STARS, PRIESTS AND KINGS
Like the early Aryan life, it was a life in a sort of family-tribe household.
55. THE ARYAN-SPEAKING PEOPLES IN PREHISTORIC TIMES
Priests are not very much in evidence, but there is a sort of medicine man who deals in spells and prophecy.
56. The Stolen Mind
The structure, pivoting downward, plunged Quest to his waist in the osmotic solution.
57. THE LAST BABYLONIAN EMPIRE AND THE EMPIRE OF DARIUS I
Even under the Assyrian monarchs and especially under Sardanapalus, Babylon had been a scene of great intellectual activity.
58. The Story of Nuclear Energy, Volume 3 (of 3): Beyond Fusion - Antimatter
Worlds Within Worlds: The Story of Nuclear Energy, Volume 3 (of 3), by Isaac Asimov is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series. You can jump to any chapter in this book here. Volume III, BEYOND FUSION: Antimatter
59. The Possibility of the "Finite" and Yet "Unbounded" Universe
Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.
60. The Story of Nuclear Energy, Volume 2 (of 3): Protons in Nuclei
Worlds Within Worlds: The Story of Nuclear Energy, Volume 2 (of 3), by Isaac Asimov is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series. You can jump to any chapter in this book here. Volume II, THE STRUCTURE OF THE NUCLEUS: Protons in Nuclei
61. THE COMING OF THE DAY
To-night all over the world ships must be in flight and ships pursuing; ten thousand towns must be ringing with the immediate excitement of war....
62. Astounding Stories of Super-Science May 1931: The Exile of Time - Chapter XII
"There are colors," said the Robot. "And the daylight and darkness of the days. But we are moving through them very rapidly, so they blend into gray."
63. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book IV, Chapter VII - Part II
The progress of many of the ancient Greek colonies towards wealth and greatness seems accordingly to have been very rapid.
64. Socialism and The Family
The Socialist movement is an item in an altogether different scale.
65. The Dark Side of Antri
“Behold one of those who live in the darkness.”
66. LAYMAN’S SERMON
There were a lot of incidents in my career to help me along—sometimes they helped me along faster than I wanted to go.
67. The Solution of the Problem of Gravitation
Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.
68. THE WEAR AND TEAR OF EPISCOPACY
He came to Princhester an innocent and trustful man.
69. CHANGES IN THE WORLD’S CLIMATE
It must be borne in mind that great changes of climate have always been in progress, that have sometimes stimulated and sometimes checked life.
70. THE GEOMETRY OF THE SPIDER’S WEB
The logarithmic spiral describes an endless number of circuits around its pole, to which it constantly draws nearer without ever being able to reach it.
71. Pride and Prejudice: Chapter 3
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.
72. The Beetle Horde - Chapter III: Ten Miles Underground
Astounding Stories of Super-Science, January 1930, by Astounding Stories is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series. You can jump to any chapter in this book here. The Beetle Horde - Chapter III: Ten Miles Underground
73. Into the Unknown
The laboratory was a small room of board walls, board ceiling and floor. Windowless, with a single door opening into the cellar of the apartment house.
74. Foot-fetichism and Shoe-fetichism
Perhaps the chief passion of Restif's life was his love for Colette Parangon.
75. What is Epistemological Realism?
In short, the moral is quite literally, "Forget it," or "Cut it out."
76. A Traitor and a Passing Asteroid
We have information, Johnson––there’s some under cover plot here aboard. I want to know what it is.
77. On-Line Data-Acquisition Systems in Nuclear Physics, 1969: Preface
The first digital electronic device employed to collect nuclear data was the binary electronic counter (scaler) of the 1930's.
78. Pride and Prejudice: Chapter 33
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.
79. REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALISM
It was Karl Marx who brought the second great influx of suggestion into the intellectual process of Socialism.
80. THE NEANDERTHALER AND THE RHODESIAN MAN
Mentally and physically they were upon a different line from the human line.
81. 1811 Dictionary in the Vulgar Tongue: Section Q
1811 Dictionary in the Vulgar Tongue, by Francis Grose is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.
82. The Essays of Adam Smith: Part VII, Section III, Chapter II
IT is well known to have been the doctrine of Mr. Hobbes, that a state of nature is a state of war; and that antecedent to the institution of civil government.
83. There Will Be School Tomorrow
In the cities the clamor softened along the streets, and the women made small, comfortable, rattling noises in the kitchens.
84. THE FIRST CIVILIZATIONS
The settled folk had the weight of numbers on their side; the herdsmen might raid and loot, but they could not stay.
85. Food and Flavor: A Gastronomic Guide to Health and Good Living- Chapter II
the most important problem now before the American public is to learn to enjoy the pleasures of the table and to insist on having savory food at every meal.
86. Cosmological Difficulties of Newton's Theory
Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.
87. When the Mountain Came to Miramar
The first tremor that set the timbers of the house to creaking brought Garry Connell out of his bunk and into the middle of the floor.
88. The Immortal Parts of Our Lives
our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment.
89. THE FIRST MAIN GENERALIZATION OF SOCIALISM
And who can doubt the amount of mental and moral dwarfing that is going on side by side with this physical shortage?
90. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book II - Chapter III
There is one sort of labour which adds to the value of the subject upon which it is bestowed; there is another which has no such effect.
91. 1811 Dictionary in the Vulgar Tongue: Section N
1811 Dictionary in the Vulgar Tongue, by Francis Grose is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.
92. The Human Side of Animals: Chapter 7 - The language of Animals
The Human Side of Animals by Royal Dixon is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.
93. Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus: Chapter XIX
London was our present point of rest; we determined to remain several months in this wonderful and celebrated city.
94. Pride and Prejudice: Chapter 18
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.
95. Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus: Chapter XV
What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These questions continually recurred, but I was unable to solve them.
96. The Palmer Method of Business Writing: Lesson 33
More study, more practice.
97. THE EARTH IN SPACE AND TIME
Astronomers and geologists and those who study physics have been able to tell us something of the origin and history of the earth.
98. The Essays of Adam Smith: Of the Affinity between Music, Dancing, and Poetry.
The simple note of such instruments, it is true, is generally a very clear, or what is called a melodious, sound.
99. David Copperfield: Chapter 4 - I Fall Into Disgrace
He drew her to him, whispered in her ear, and kissed her.
100. MONKEYS, APES AND SUB-MEN
Now the past history of the Primates is one very difficult to decipher in the geological record.
101. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book IV, Chapter I
Others admit, that if a nation could be separated from all the world, it would be of no consequence how much or how little money circulated in it.
102. SECESSION
There came another silence. “It's all gone so differently,” she said. “Everything has gone so differently.”
103. For the Story Teller: Chapter 1 - The Apperceptive Basic of Story Telling
APPERCEPTION is a formidable and sometimes confusing term for a very simple and easy-to-understand mental process.
104. The Essays of Adam Smith: Part III, Chapter III - Of the Influence and Authority of Conscience.
It is never objected to us that we have too little fellow-feeling with the joy of success.
105. The Human Adventure
An Englishman looks at the world by H. G. Wells, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series.
106. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Book IV, Chapter II
The general industry of the society can never exceed what the capital of the society can employ.
107. Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus: Chapter IX
At these moments I wept bitterly and wished that peace would revisit my mind only that I might afford them consolation and happiness.
108. David Copperfield: Chapter 40 - The Wanderer
The wind had gone down with the light, and so the snow had come on. It was a heavy, settled fall, I recollect, in great flakes; and it lay thick.
109. Pride and Prejudice: Chapter 47
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.
110. A PICTURE OF THE WORLD OF MEN
I seem to be a consciousness, vague and insecure, placed between two worlds.
111. 1811 Dictionary in the Vulgar Tongue: Section I
1811 Dictionary in the Vulgar Tongue, by Francis Grose is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.
112. Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus: Chapter XIV
“Some time elapsed before I learned the history of my friends."
113. Pride and Prejudice: Chapter 61
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.
114. The Essays of Adam Smith: THE IMITATIVE ARTS - Part II
AFTER the pleasures which arise from the gratification of the bodily appetites, there seem to be none more natural to man than Music and Dancing.
115. Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus: Chapter XI
“It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my being; all the events of that period appear confused and indistinct."
116. Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1931: The Exile of Time - Chapter XXIII
It stung me into action, and for all the chaotic rush of these desperate moments my heart surged with relief.
117. Pride and Prejudice: Chapter 43
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.
118. Emphatic words must stand in emphatic positions
This metaphor is not recommended for imitation.
119. 1811 Dictionary in the Vulgar Tongue: Section H
1811 Dictionary in the Vulgar Tongue, by Francis Grose is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.
120. PRIMITIVE NOMADIC PEOPLES
For settlement under the conditions of the primitive civilizations men needed a constant water supply and warmth and sunshine.
121. Astounding Stories of Super-Science June 1931: The Exile of Time - Chapter XV
There was a nameless feeling, a repulsion against stopping; it was indescribable, but he was aware of it.
122. THE RACES OF MANKIND
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