That’s what you get,’ he said, nodding towards a group of the men engaged in some close-order military drill, ‘when you give people Bibles and guns. You should give ’em either one or the other,...

Over the vistas broke a cold gray light, such as seen in those false dawns that are neither night nor true morning, when the world and all its contents seem but shapes of mist, formed...

What is the future going to be like, then?’ ‘Hey, it’s gonna be a gas,’ Scape assured me. ‘If you’re into machines and stuff – like I am – you’d go for it. People are...

It was the dog Abel, who – as animals have been reported to do – had made his way over all England’s hills and rivers, to return to that home where he was first kindly...

And if I were to open you up – would you see anything less remarkable? Less intricately dazzling, in its squelching, spongy way? Lungs and heart and spleen, and all the rest – ticking away,...

Tut, tut. We can’t let mere sentiment intrude. This is Science.

Adventures, I reflected, are all very fine but a certain amount of civilised comfort forms the true kernel of our desires.