A Columbus of Space
Serviss, Garrett P. (Garrett Putman), 1851-1929
English
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A COLUMBUS OF SPACE
BY GARRETT P. SERVISS
[Illustration: "Standing on the steps ... was a creature shaped like a
man, but more savage than a gorilla."]
TO THE READERS OF
JULES VERNE'S ROMANCES
THIS STORY IS DEDICATED
Not because the author flatters himself that he can walk in the Footsteps
of that Immortal Dreamer, but because, like Jules Verne, he believes that
the World of Imagination is as legitimate a Domain of the Human Mind as
the World of Fact.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I. A MARVELOUS INVENTION
II. A TRIP OF TERROR
III. THE PLANETARY LIMITED
IV. THE CAVERNS OF VENUS
V. OFF FOR THE SUN LANDS
VI. LOST IN THE CRYSTAL MOUNTAINS
VII. THE CHILDREN OF THE SUN
VIII. LANGUAGE WITHOUT SPEECH
IX. AN AMAZING METROPOLIS
X. IMPRISONMENT AND A WONDERFUL ESCAPE
XI. BEFORE THE THRONE OF VENUS
XII. MORE MARVELS
XIII. WE FALL INTO TROUBLE AGAIN
XIV. THE SUN GOD
XV. AT THE MERCY OF FEARFUL ENEMIES
XVI. DREADFUL CREATURES OF THE GLOOM
XVII. EARTH MAGIC ON VENUS
XVIII. WILD EDEN
XIX. THE SECRET OF THE CAR
XX. THE CORYBANTIA OF THE SUN
XXI. THE EARTH
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
"Standing on the steps ... was a creature shaped like a man, but more
savage than a gorilla"
"We were in the heart of the _Crystal Mountains!_"
"'Who and what are you, and whence do you come?'"
"It curled itself over the edge of the hovering air ship and drew it
down"
CHAPTER I
A MARVELOUS INVENTION
I am a hero worshiper; an insatiable devourer of biographies; and I say
that no man in all the splendid list ever equaled Edmund Stonewall. You
smile because you have never heard his name, for, until now, his
biography has not been written. And this is not truly a biography; it is
only the story of the crowning event in Stonewall's career.
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