Classics fantasy – 7. Stories-2

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A. Belyaev. Classics fantasy – 7. Stories-2

CITY OF THE WINNER

(a sketch – a utopia)

CORRESPONDENCE ENGINEER

(story)

STORM

(story)

ON AIR COLUMNS

(story)

KITE. KOLKINA OF THE INVENTION

AIR MILL

FIRST FLIGHT

MORE STRONGLY THAN GOD

DEVIL’S SWAMP

SANDPIPER AND SWAMP

FIRST SIGNS

PANASIK EXPLORES THE SWAMP

BEGAN

SCHOOL – THE MARSH CHIEF

ON PEATERY

RECORD FLIGHT

LATE GUEST

IN THE PURSUIT OF THE RECORD

PAYMENT

MEETING NEW, 1954

EXTRAORDINARY INCIDENTS

THE GONE ISLAND

SHORT CONVERSATION

OVER THE OCEAN

SUNDIAL DETERIORATED

IN GOLFSHTREM

ON THE RAFT

RETURN VISIT

THE BLIND PERSON WEEDS

1. HUNTER OF SIGNALS

2. MYSTERIOUS RACE CAR

3. MISSING STRATOPLAN

4. THE BLIND PERSON WEEDS

5. “AND EARTH-TO ROUND!”

MR. LAUGHTER

AT THE CROSSROADS

QUEEN OF TEARS

WAY TO GLORY

UPSIDE DOWN

KING OF LAUGHTER

DARK LIGHT

HORNED MAMMOTH

ANATOMIC GROOM

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Karl Fit opened eyes and smiled. Several days he woke up with a smile on lips – perhaps because he fell asleep with a thought of how life is good and interesting. And as yesterday as the day before yesterday, he attentively looked around himself. He threw the head back and saw a balcony door through which glasses slanting beams of the morning sun joined the room; threw a cursory glance on a small desk from a white oak and to a convenient working chair; turned the head, examined a wardrobe in a wall, as if wishing to make sure whether all on the place, and was finished by survey with a wash basin about a door. In total on the place. In total as yesterday, in this small, clean, white room. And pictures on walls and a bouquet on a table? No, and they on the place: two fine etudes oil paints – episodes of heroic fight of the proletariat for the power. The big round clock hanging over a door looked the dial, and shooters were extended almost vertically. Was one minute to six. At this time always Fit woke up. Here shooters were extended outright absolutely, and soft, but quite strong baritone which goodness knows where from spoke immediately was heard:

– Six hours, are time to rise!

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The train with a usual roar and noise is rolled in the covered station. You leave directly to the channel – and you are covered by silence, extraordinary for the city. In all Venice there is no car and any horse, except for those that stand on St. Mark’s Basilica, but they are bronze! And when you go on narrow Venetian ulichka and on Mark Square, you are pursued by strange feeling – as if it is not the city, and… the house without roof. Similar I tested something when I left hotel and went to wander about the city of Yuzhkhim. Here everything was differently, not as in our noisy, confused, mad cities of the West and America. Others were also people here. Neither slackness, nor sluggishness! All whom I met were vigorous, cheerful and mobile, but without the excess fussiness and nervousness characterizing the residents of the big capitalist city who are eternally hurrying, worrying, stepping each other on legs.

Parks and Yuzhkhima Street seemed to me, perhaps, even too poorly populated for the city accomodating sixty thousand people. “Why it?” – I thought and immediately answered myself: “It is the city of workers, and workers are at work now”. This explanation was correct, but not absolutely exact as subsequently I was convinced. Besides that the fifth part of all workers were “days off”, workers worked in three changes, and actually, so at the plant there was no more than a third. The relative malolyudstvo was explained by many reasons. In Yuzhkhim there was no division of the city into the boring uncomfortable suburbs and the elegant center which is pulling together almost all population to the show-windows and fires of cinema. By Dezurbanization it was shown not only that people refused construction of the unhealthy huge cities octopuses with the multimillion population here, but also that within the city all public places are decentralized, except, of course, city Soviet institutions of city value (the City Council with all its departments is located on Revolution Square). Theaters, cinema, the museums, clubs, libraries and other cultural institutions evenly of a raskinuta on all city, and cinema of the suburb differs in nothing from cinema in the downtown.

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