The Chapter Ends

Poul Anderson

Ever think how deadly a thing it is if a machine has amnesia-- or how easily it can be arranged....

Poul Anderson

[Illustration: Julith clasped the star-man's arm with one hand, while her other arm gripped his waist.

Poul Anderson

Obviously, no conqueror wants his subjects to revolt against his rule.

Poul Anderson

"Let little Cappen go," they shouted.

Jonathan Swift

1729 It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex,...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

Plato

Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION.

Ambrose Bierce

THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION, 1988 A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below.