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Raymond King Cummings. Beyond the Stars
Beyond the Stars
Table of Contents
I “CALLING FOR HELP!”
II. THE DEAD WHITE THING
III. LAUNCHED INTO SPACE!
IV. EXPANSION!
V. EMERGING FROM INFINITE SMALLNESS
VI. THE NEW REALM
VII. THE SACRIFICE
VIII. REBELLING VIRGINS
IX. THE NAMELESS HORROR
X. THE FLIGHT TO THE VIRGINS’ ISLAND
XI. A MAN, TO PLAY A MAN’S PART
XII. THE PRISONER IN THE CAVE
XIII. CROWDED HOURS
XIV. FUGITIVES IN THE STARLIGHT
XV. THE RESCUE
XVI. DEPARTURE FOR BATTLE
XVII. THE BATTLE
XVIII. THE GREAT RIDDLE
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Raymond King Cummings
Published by Good Press, 2021
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He led us up the inclines through his rambling house and to its roof, where in the starlight we sat on leafy couches in a garden blooming with flowers, shrubs and coned ferns.
It was about an hour before dawn, cloudless, moonless—a brilliant firmament of gems strewn upon their purple velvet. Venus was rising now to be the morning star and herald the dawn; red Mars, lying opposite and low, glowed like the ashless end of a cigarro.
