Out of the Void
- Kategoria:
- fantasy, science fiction
- Cykl:
- The Void (tom 1)
- Seria:
- Hale SF
- Wydawnictwo:
- Robert Hale Ltd
- Data wydania:
- 1971-09-02
- Data 1. wydania:
- 1971-09-02
- Liczba stron:
- 190
- Czas czytania
- 3 godz. 10 min.
- Język:
- angielski
- Tagi:
- loty kosmiczne inne cywilizacje
Now it can be told that, nearly thirty years before the Russians startled the world with their first Sputnik, a rocket ship bearing two men set out for Mars. Nothing was heard of them thereafter. Professor Ezra Rollins, who, with his colleagues, and with the quiet assistance of the fabulously wealthy and worid-famous Dana Gleason, had constructed the ship, considered himself a murderer. He had sent two men—Dana Gleason Jr., and Richard Dorr, who had joined Gleason at the last moment—to their deaths.
Carl Wooten knew none of these things that weekend in 1930 when he slipped away to his small fishing lodge in south New Jersey. He had heard of Dana Gleason, and of the mystery surrounding the sportsman's son, but after the death of his father, Dana Gleason Jr., had dropped out of the public eye. Wooten had never heard of Ezra Rollins. The mystery, for him, began when he arrived at the lodge to find that some old clothes he kept there were missing, and what looked like a strangely cut but immensely valuable ruby had apparently been left in their place. He remembered having seen a flash of light the evening before on his way to the lodge, and thinking that he had a new neighbour. But who would exchange a valuable ruby for old clothing?
The next day, he decided to call on his new neighbour to see if any explanation could be found there. He made his way through the underbrush beyond the forking in the path where he had seen the light. Finally, he came to an open glade—and stopped short. There, in its centre —or, rather, almost filling the entire clearing from one side to the other—lay a long cylindrical body with conical ends, fully two hundred and fifty feet long and perhaps thirty-five feet around! Why Wooten was captured by men from another world under the command of a silver-skinned leader who could read minds, why they had taken Wooten's clothes, why they wanted to find Professor Ezra Rollins, and the message they bore from Dana Gleason and Richard Dorr make for one of the strangest stories ever told. And their most startling revelation of all—the reason Richard Dorr, who had been opposed to the Mars project, forced his way into the ship just before take-off—also solved the mystery surrounding Dana Gleason Jr. For the intended, solitary pilot of The Wanderer, who would have been the first man in space, was a woman!
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First published in a magazine version in Amazing Stories, sr2, August-September 1929
First book publication in 1967 by Avalon Books (revised)
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