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ddressing his contemporary public. You are to imagine yourself reading a present day translation of my original text--a translation so free that a thousand little colloquialisms will have crept into it that could not possibly have their counterparts in the year 2430.
Apart from the text, you will occasionally find brief explanatory footnotes. Conceive them as having been put there by the translator.
If you find parts of this tale unusual or bizarre, please remember that we are living now in a comparatively ignorant day. The tale is not intended to be fantastic or full of new and strange ideas. I have used nothing but those developments of our present-day civilization to which we are all looking forward as logical probabilities--woven them into a picture of what life in America very probably will be five hundred years from now. To that extent, the tale itself is intended to be only a love story of adventure and romance--written, not for you, but for that future audience.
RAY CUMMINGS.
CONTENTS
I. The New Murders
II. Warning
III. Spy in the House
IV. To the North Pole
V. Outlawed Flight
VI. Man of Destiny
VII. Prisoners
VIII. Unknown Friend
IX. Paralyzed!
X. Georg Escapes
XI. Recaptured
XII. Tara
XIII. Love--and Hate
XIV. Defying Worlds
XV. Escape
XVI. Playground of Venus
XVII. Violet Beam of Death
XVIII. Passing of a Friend
XIX. Waters of Eternal Peace
XX. Unseen Menace
XXI. Love, Music--and a Warning
XXII. Revolution!
XXIII. First Retreat
XXIV. Attack on the Palace
XXV. Immortal Terror
XXVI. Black Cloud of Death
XXVII. Tarrano The Man
XXVIII. Thing in the Forest
XXIX. A Woman's Scream
XXX. The Monster
XXXI. Industriana
XXXII. Departure
XXXIII. First Assault
XXXIV. Invisible Assailants
XXXV. Attack on the Power House < previous next >