Month: April 2020
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Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream
Read Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream by James Alan Gardner onlineThree Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream.Asimov’s Science Fiction, Feb 1997 1. Concerning an Arrangement of Lenses, So Fashioned as to Magnify the View of Divers Animacules, Too Tiny to…
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The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Read online The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington PlansBy Sir Arthur Conan DoyleIn the third week of November, in the year 1895, a dense yellowfog settled down upon London. From the Monday to the Thursday Idoubt whether it was ever possible from our windows in BakerStreet to see the loom of…
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
Jonathan Livingston SeagullRichard BachTo the real Jonathan Seagull,who lives within us all.PART ONEIt was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea. A mile from shore a fishing boat chummed the water. and the word for Breakfast Flock flashed through the air, till a…
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The Country Of The Blind By H. G. Wells
Read online The Country Of The Blind By H. G. WellsThree hundred miles and more from Chimborazo, one hundred from the snowsof Cotopaxi, in the wildest wastes of Ecuador’s Andes, there lies thatmysterious mountain valley, cut off from the world of men, the Country ofthe Blind. Long years ago that…
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The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Read online The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot By Sir Arthur Conan DoyleIn recording from time to time some of the curious experiencesand interesting recollections which I associate with my long andintimate friendship with Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I have continuallybeen faced by difficulties caused by his own aversion topublicity. To…
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The Grand Inquisitor By Feodor Dostoevsky
Read online The Grand Inquisitor By Feodor Dostoevsky(Translation by H.P. Blavatsky)[Dedicated by the Translator to those sceptics who clamour soloudly, both in print and private letters–“Show us the wonder-working ‘Brothers,’ let them come out publicly–and we willbelieve in them!”][The following is an extract from M. Dostoevsky’s celebratednovel, The Brothers Karamazof,…
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Johnny Mnemonic by William Gibson
Read online Johnny Mnemonic by William Gibson I put the shotgun in an Adidas bag and padded it out with four pairs oftennis socks, not my style at all, but that was what I was aiming for:If they think you’re crude, go technical; if they think you’retechnical, go crude. I’m…
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