The Barbarians

Algis Budrys

BY JOHN SENTRY It was just as he saw The Barbarian's squat black tankette lurch hurriedly into a nest of boulders that young Giulion Geoffrey realized he had been betrayed.

Algis Budrys

Illustrated by van Dongen _He was looking for a privacy his strange personality needed.

Algis Budrys

Unfortunate castaway!

Algis Budrys

He was a vendor of dreams, purveying worlds beyond imagination to others.

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.