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.Mighty towers sweptgraceful lines a half mile in the air, their brightly colored walls gleamingin rainbow hues, giving the entire city the aspect of a gigantic jewel asingle architectural unit.Here was symmetry and order, with every unit in thecity built around the gigantic central edificethat rose, a tremendous tower of black and gold, a full half mile in the air.The outer parts of the city were evidently the residen-tial districts, the low buildings and the wide streets with the little greenlawns showing the care of the individual owner.Then came the apartment housesand the small stores; these rose in gentle slopes, higher and higher, mergingat last with the mighty central pinnacle of beauty.The city was designed as awhole, not in a multitude of individually beautiful, but inharmonious units,like some wild mixture of melodies, each in itself beautiful, but mutuallydiscordant.VTHE TERHESTBIANS FOLLOWEDtheir escort high above these great buildings, heading toward the greatcentral tower.In a moment they were above it, and in perfect order the ships of theVenerians shot down to land smoothly, but at high speed.On the roof of thebuilding they slowed with startling rapidity, held back by electromagnetsunder the top dressing of the roof landing, as Arcot learned later."We can't land on that this thing weighs too much we'd probably sink rightthrough it! The street looks wide enough for us to land there." Arcotmaneuvered theSo-larite over the edge of the roof, and dropped it swiftly down the half mileto the ground below.Just above the street, he leveled off, and descendedslowly, giving the hurrying crowds plenty of time to get from beneath it.Landing finally, he looked curiously at the mass of Venerians who had gatheredin the busy street, coming out of buildings where they evidently had soughtshelter during the raid.The crowd grew rapidly as the Terrestrians watchedthem people of a new world."Why," exclaimed Fuller in startled surprise, "they look almost like us!"Page 44 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html"Why not?" laughed Arcot."Is there any particular reason why they shouldn'tlook like us? Venus and Earth are very nearly the same size, and are planetsof the same parent sun.Physical conditions here appear to be very similar toconditions back home, and if there's anything to Svend Arrehenius' theory oflife spores being sent from world to world by sunlight, there's no reason whyhu-manoid races cannot be found throughout the universe.On worlds, that is,suitable for the development of such life forms.""Look at the size of 'em," Fuller commented.Their size was certainly worth noting, for in all that crowd only theobviously young were less than six feet tall.The average seemed to be sevenfeet well-built men and women with unusually large chests, who would haveseemed very human indeed, but for a ghastly, death-like blue tinge to theirskin.Even their lips were as bright a blue as man's lips are red.The teethseemed to be as white as any human's, but their mouths were blue."They look as if they'd all been eating blueberries!" laughed Wade."I wonderwhat makes their blood blue? I've heard of blue-blooded families, but theseare the first I've ever seen!""I think I can answer that," said Morey slowly."It seems odd to us but thosepeople evidently have their blood based on hemocyanin.In us, the oxygen iscarried to the tissues, and the carbon dioxide carried away by an ironcompound, hemo-globin, but in many animals of Earth, the same function isperformed by a copper compound, hemocyanin, which is an intense blue.I amsure that that is the explanation for these strange people.By the way, didyou notice their hands?""Yes, I had.They strike me as having one too many fingers look there thatfellow is pointing why his hand hasn't too many fingers, but too many thumbs!He has one on each side of his palm! Say, that would be handy in placing nutsand bolts, and such fine work, wouldn't it?"Suddenly a lane opened in the crowd, and from the great black and goldbuilding there came a file of men in tight-fitting green uniforms, a file of seven-foot giants.Obviously they weresoldiers of some particular branch, for in the crowd there were a number ofmen dressed in similar uniforms of deep blue."I think they want one or more of us to accompany them," Arcot said."Let'sflip a coin to decide who goes-two better stay here, and two go.If we don'tcome back inside of a reasonable period of time, one of you might start makinginquiries; the other can send a message to Earth, and get out of harm's waytill help can come.I imagine these people are friendly now, however else Iwouldn't go."The leader of the troop stepped up to the door of theSolarite, and coming to what was obviously a position of attention, put hisleft hand over his right breast in an equally obvious salute, and waited.The coin was flipped with due ceremony it would decide which of them were tohave the distinction of being the first Terrestrians to set foot on Venus.Arcot and Morey won, and they quickly put on the loose-fitting ventilatedcooling suits that they might live comfortably in the hot air outside for thethermometer registered 150°!The two men quickly walked over to the airlock, entered, closed it behindthem, and opened the outer door.There was a slight rush of air, as thepressure outside was a bit lower than that inside.There was a singing intheir ears, and they had to swallow several times to equalize the pressure.The guards at once fell into a double row on either side of them, and theyoung officer strode ahead.He himself had curbed his curiosity after thesingle startled glance he had given these strange men.Only their hands we'revisible, for the cooling suits covered them almost completely, but the strangepink color must indeed have been startling to the eyes; also their dwarfstature, and the strange suits they wore.The men of his little troop,however, as well as the people in the crowd about them, were not soPage 45 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmldisinterested.They were looking in eager amazement at these men who had justsaved their city, these strange small men with their queer pink skin.And mostsurprising of all, perhaps, the inner thumb was missing from each hand!But soon they had passed beyond the sight of the crowd, which was held incheck by a handful of the deep blue uniformed men."Those fellows would never hold such a Terrestrial crowd back if visitors fromanother planet landed!" remarkedMorey wonderingly."How do they know we are visitors from another planet?" Arcot objected."Wesuddenly appeared out of nowherethey don't even know our direction of approach.We might be some strange raceof Venerians as far as they know."They walked briskly up to the massive gold and black entrance, and passedthrough the great doors that seemed made of solid copper, painted with someclear coating that kept the metal lustrous, the rich color shiningmagnificently.They stood open wide now, as indeed they always were.Even thegiant Venerians were dwarfed by these mighty doors as they passed through intoan equally vast hall, a tremendous room that must have filled all the fronthalf of the ground floor of the gigantic building, a hall of graceful columnsthat hid the great supporting members.The stone, they knew, must serve theVenerians as marble serves us, but it was a far more handsome stone [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ]
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.Mighty towers sweptgraceful lines a half mile in the air, their brightly colored walls gleamingin rainbow hues, giving the entire city the aspect of a gigantic jewel asingle architectural unit.Here was symmetry and order, with every unit in thecity built around the gigantic central edificethat rose, a tremendous tower of black and gold, a full half mile in the air.The outer parts of the city were evidently the residen-tial districts, the low buildings and the wide streets with the little greenlawns showing the care of the individual owner.Then came the apartment housesand the small stores; these rose in gentle slopes, higher and higher, mergingat last with the mighty central pinnacle of beauty.The city was designed as awhole, not in a multitude of individually beautiful, but inharmonious units,like some wild mixture of melodies, each in itself beautiful, but mutuallydiscordant.VTHE TERHESTBIANS FOLLOWEDtheir escort high above these great buildings, heading toward the greatcentral tower.In a moment they were above it, and in perfect order the ships of theVenerians shot down to land smoothly, but at high speed.On the roof of thebuilding they slowed with startling rapidity, held back by electromagnetsunder the top dressing of the roof landing, as Arcot learned later."We can't land on that this thing weighs too much we'd probably sink rightthrough it! The street looks wide enough for us to land there." Arcotmaneuvered theSo-larite over the edge of the roof, and dropped it swiftly down the half mileto the ground below.Just above the street, he leveled off, and descendedslowly, giving the hurrying crowds plenty of time to get from beneath it.Landing finally, he looked curiously at the mass of Venerians who had gatheredin the busy street, coming out of buildings where they evidently had soughtshelter during the raid.The crowd grew rapidly as the Terrestrians watchedthem people of a new world."Why," exclaimed Fuller in startled surprise, "they look almost like us!"Page 44 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html"Why not?" laughed Arcot."Is there any particular reason why they shouldn'tlook like us? Venus and Earth are very nearly the same size, and are planetsof the same parent sun.Physical conditions here appear to be very similar toconditions back home, and if there's anything to Svend Arrehenius' theory oflife spores being sent from world to world by sunlight, there's no reason whyhu-manoid races cannot be found throughout the universe.On worlds, that is,suitable for the development of such life forms.""Look at the size of 'em," Fuller commented.Their size was certainly worth noting, for in all that crowd only theobviously young were less than six feet tall.The average seemed to be sevenfeet well-built men and women with unusually large chests, who would haveseemed very human indeed, but for a ghastly, death-like blue tinge to theirskin.Even their lips were as bright a blue as man's lips are red.The teethseemed to be as white as any human's, but their mouths were blue."They look as if they'd all been eating blueberries!" laughed Wade."I wonderwhat makes their blood blue? I've heard of blue-blooded families, but theseare the first I've ever seen!""I think I can answer that," said Morey slowly."It seems odd to us but thosepeople evidently have their blood based on hemocyanin.In us, the oxygen iscarried to the tissues, and the carbon dioxide carried away by an ironcompound, hemo-globin, but in many animals of Earth, the same function isperformed by a copper compound, hemocyanin, which is an intense blue.I amsure that that is the explanation for these strange people.By the way, didyou notice their hands?""Yes, I had.They strike me as having one too many fingers look there thatfellow is pointing why his hand hasn't too many fingers, but too many thumbs!He has one on each side of his palm! Say, that would be handy in placing nutsand bolts, and such fine work, wouldn't it?"Suddenly a lane opened in the crowd, and from the great black and goldbuilding there came a file of men in tight-fitting green uniforms, a file of seven-foot giants.Obviously they weresoldiers of some particular branch, for in the crowd there were a number ofmen dressed in similar uniforms of deep blue."I think they want one or more of us to accompany them," Arcot said."Let'sflip a coin to decide who goes-two better stay here, and two go.If we don'tcome back inside of a reasonable period of time, one of you might start makinginquiries; the other can send a message to Earth, and get out of harm's waytill help can come.I imagine these people are friendly now, however else Iwouldn't go."The leader of the troop stepped up to the door of theSolarite, and coming to what was obviously a position of attention, put hisleft hand over his right breast in an equally obvious salute, and waited.The coin was flipped with due ceremony it would decide which of them were tohave the distinction of being the first Terrestrians to set foot on Venus.Arcot and Morey won, and they quickly put on the loose-fitting ventilatedcooling suits that they might live comfortably in the hot air outside for thethermometer registered 150°!The two men quickly walked over to the airlock, entered, closed it behindthem, and opened the outer door.There was a slight rush of air, as thepressure outside was a bit lower than that inside.There was a singing intheir ears, and they had to swallow several times to equalize the pressure.The guards at once fell into a double row on either side of them, and theyoung officer strode ahead.He himself had curbed his curiosity after thesingle startled glance he had given these strange men.Only their hands we'revisible, for the cooling suits covered them almost completely, but the strangepink color must indeed have been startling to the eyes; also their dwarfstature, and the strange suits they wore.The men of his little troop,however, as well as the people in the crowd about them, were not soPage 45 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmldisinterested.They were looking in eager amazement at these men who had justsaved their city, these strange small men with their queer pink skin.And mostsurprising of all, perhaps, the inner thumb was missing from each hand!But soon they had passed beyond the sight of the crowd, which was held incheck by a handful of the deep blue uniformed men."Those fellows would never hold such a Terrestrial crowd back if visitors fromanother planet landed!" remarkedMorey wonderingly."How do they know we are visitors from another planet?" Arcot objected."Wesuddenly appeared out of nowherethey don't even know our direction of approach.We might be some strange raceof Venerians as far as they know."They walked briskly up to the massive gold and black entrance, and passedthrough the great doors that seemed made of solid copper, painted with someclear coating that kept the metal lustrous, the rich color shiningmagnificently.They stood open wide now, as indeed they always were.Even thegiant Venerians were dwarfed by these mighty doors as they passed through intoan equally vast hall, a tremendous room that must have filled all the fronthalf of the ground floor of the gigantic building, a hall of graceful columnsthat hid the great supporting members.The stone, they knew, must serve theVenerians as marble serves us, but it was a far more handsome stone [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ]