The Cosmic Express
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The Cosmic Express is by Jack Williamson, with an introduction by Sam Moskowitz. The introduction says the lightness of the handling is especially modern, barely avoiding the farcical by the validity of the notion that wireless transmission of matter is the next big transportation frontier to be conquered.
A scene has Mr. Eric Stokes-Harding and his pretty wife in street clothes, light silk tunics of loose, flowing lines. The text describes a cylindrical car, with rows of seats down the sides, hurled by magnetic attraction and repulsion through a tube exhausted of air. In the Cosmic Express office, people lie on the transparent table with all those great mirrors and prisms and lenses about them, and a bustling, red-faced official appears through the door in the grill, fairly bubbling apologies.
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- Author
- Jack Williamson
- Pages
- 15
- Language
- English
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- Short Story
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