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A Stranger from Spaceland
“It was the last day of the 1999th year of our era. The pattering of the rain To a Flatlander, a sphere passing through Flatland appears as a line of changing length. had long ago announced nightfall; and I was sitting in the company of my wife, musing on the events of the past and […]
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From the December 28, 1929, issue
YOUTH AND THE SEA “Captain Sylvia,” aged 6 weeks, and her mother, Mrs. J.E. Williamson upon the cover of this week’s issue look at a strange world full of fishes, corals, sharks, morays, and other denizens of the deep. The youthful scientist, symbolic of science itself and its aspirations, was a member of the Field […]
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