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The Syren of the Skies (Sci-Fi Classic)
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Table of Contents
Prologue. The Prophecy of Natas
Chapter I. The Surrender of the World-Throne
Chapter II. A Crownless King
Chapter III. Tsarina Olga
Chapter IV. A Son of the Gods
Chapter V. A Vision from the Clouds
Chapter VI. Deed and Dream
Chapter VII. The Spell of Circe
Chapter VIII. The New Terror
Chapter IX. The Flight of the “Revenge.”
Chapter X. Strange Tidings to Aeria
Chapter XI. The Snake in Eden
Chapter XII. The Battle of Kerguelen
Chapter XIII. The Syren’s Stronghold
Chapter XIV. From the Sea to the Air
Chapter XV. Olga in Council
Chapter XVI. Khalid the Magnificent
Chapter XVII. An Unholy Alliance
Chapter XVIII. A Momentous Commission
Chapter XIX. Face to Face Again
Chapter XX. The Call to Arms
Chapter XXI. The Home-Coming
Chapter XXII. The Eve of Battle
Chapter XXIII. The First Blow
Chapter XXIV. War at Its Worst
Chapter XXV. A Message from Mars
Chapter XXVI. Sentence of Death
Chapter XXVII. Alma Speaks
Chapter XXVIII. The Sign in the Sky
Chapter XXIX. The Truce of God
Chapter XXX. The Shadow of Death
Chapter XXXI. The Last Battle
Chapter XXXII. The She-Wolf to Her Lair
Epilogue “Vengeance is Mine.”
Footnotes:
George Griffith
Chapter I. The Surrender of the World-Throne.
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The old man regarded them in silence for a moment or two, and as he did so the angry fire died out of his eyes, and his lips parted in a faint smile as he said, rather in soliloquy to himself than to them—
As he spoke, the fixed, rigid look melted from Olga’s face. The bright flush rose again to her cheeks, and she bowed her royal head, and looked almost tenderly at the blond, ruddy, young giant at her feet. After all, he was her fate, and she might well have had a worse one.
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