Hunters Out of SpaceKelleam, Joseph E. (Joseph Everidge)
Science
Hunters Out of Space
Kelleam, Joseph E. (Joseph Everidge)
Science fiction
Page 70: They hammered and pounded at the framework.{original omitted the
period}
Page 71: It was entitled: "Einstein and Einsteinian Space, with Conjectures
upon a Trans-Einsteinian concept.{original had a comma here}"
Page 73: She was dressed in linsey-woolsey{original had lindsey-woolsey},
and the overalls of the three sons were also home-spun.
Page 75: And once,{original had a period} Odin heard him cry out
Page 78: Larger than the others, Odin landed awkwardly{original had
awkardly} upon the floor of the car.
Page 79: It was surrounded by green grass, and at one corner was a
profusion of water-lilies{original had water-lillies} and cat-tails.
Page 80: "{original omitted this quotation mark}For over a thousand years,
theirs was an economy of death and rottenness. Mushrooms and toadstools
were their food.
Page 82: Jupiter with its red clouds and its protean{original had portean}
"eye" reached out for them and was left behind.
Page 83: "It will be like plunging back from immortality{original had
imortality} to mortality," Ato told Odin.
Page 84: "My father's work is finished{original had finisheded}," she told
them proudly.
Page 86: Don't you see?{original had a period instead of the question mark}
Page 91: He saw boats and cars and a few long-nosed airplanes, with the
merest trace of vestigial{original had vestigeal} wings far back near the
empennage,
Page 95: Again he tossed a sneer in Gunnar's direction--{original had a
superfluous quotation mark here}
Page 95: "If I did, Hagen, would I turn you and your hell's{original had
hells'} spawn loose upon the stars to perplex them forever?"
Page 97: "Touché{original had Touche}!" Jack Odin thought as Gunnar
departed.
Page 98: This was true,{original omitted the comma} Odin thought, since
this was the first Bro-Stoka who had ever been identified to him.
Page 98: "And he is a Bro-Stoka among the slaves,{original omitted this
comma}" Gunnar continued.
Page 100: "Turn the light upon her forearm{original had fore-arm, but all
other occurrences were spelled forearm}, now," he instructed.
Pages 103-104: Do you remember a story about the bush-men dying from a
curse?{original had a period instead of the question mark}
Page 106: {original had a superfluous quotation mark here}Here," he pointed
to a pinpoint of light upon the map.
Page 107: "Perhaps," she answered.{original had a comma} "But space out
there is curdling in his wake."
Illustration caption (Page 122): Grim Hagen's men writhed helplessly in
the grip of the Kalis'{original had Kali's} deadly copper hairs!
Page 128: The bees who steal the honey soon die, the old man{original had
men} had said,
Page 134: Soon, I think, I will put on the belt that they brought for me
and go forth with them like Laelaps{original had laelaps} to invade the
night."
The following words were inconsistently hyphenated, and have been left as
in the original:
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