The silver airship cut swiftly through the hot thin air. The noonday sun blazed down upon it and the desert world below. All about was the solemn silence of death. No living thing appeared either in the air or on the drab, gray earth. Only the aircraft itself displayed any signs of life. The sky, […]
Category: Sea Stories
Lowell Howard Morrow – Islands in the Air
“WE CAN control the laws of gravitation and perform new miracles.” My good friend, Professor Gustave Steiner, was speaking, and for that reason I pondered his remarkable words. “Such an attainment would overshadow all else in the realms of science,” I observed casually. “Already the problem has been mastered,” asserted the professor solemnly. I gave […]