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Tarrano the Conqueror

Ray Cummings · 2007

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  1. 01Front matter
  2. 02CHAPTER I
  3. 03CHAPTER II
  4. 04CHAPTER III
  5. 05CHAPTER IV
  6. 06CHAPTER V
  7. 07CHAPTER VI
  8. 08CHAPTER VII
  9. 09CHAPTER VIII
  10. 10CHAPTER IX
  11. 11CHAPTER X
  12. 12CHAPTER XI
  13. 13CHAPTER XII
  14. 14CHAPTER XIII
  15. 15CHAPTER XIV
  16. 16CHAPTER XV
  17. 17CHAPTER XVI
  18. 18CHAPTER XVII
  19. 19CHAPTER XVIII
  20. 20CHAPTER XIX
  21. 21CHAPTER XX
  22. 22CHAPTER XXI
  23. 23CHAPTER XXII
  24. 24CHAPTER XXIII
  25. 25CHAPTER XXIV
  26. 26CHAPTER XXV
  27. 27CHAPTER XXVI
  28. 28CHAPTER XXVII
  29. 29CHAPTER XXVIII
  30. 30CHAPTER XXIX
  31. 31CHAPTER XXX
  32. 32CHAPTER XXXI
  33. 33CHAPTER XXXII
  34. 34CHAPTER XXXIII
  35. 35CHAPTER XXXIV
  36. 36CHAPTER XXXV
  37. 37CHAPTER XXXVI
  38. 38CHAPTER XXXVII
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                            TARRANO

                         THE CONQUEROR

                        BY RAY CUMMINGS

COPYRIGHT, 1930, BY A. C. McCLURG & CO. CHICAGO

IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE BRITISH EMPIRE AND THE PAN AMERICAN UNION.

Printed in the United States of America

To Hugo Gernsback, scientist, author and publisher, whose constant efforts in behalf of scientific fiction have contributed so largely to its present popularity, this tale is gratefully dedicated.

FOREWORD

_In "Tarrano the Conqueror" is presented a tale of the year 2430 A.D.--a time somewhat farther beyond our present-day era than we are beyond Columbus' discovery of America. My desire has been to create for you the impression that you have suddenly been plunged forward into that time--to give you the feeling Columbus might have had could he have read a novel of our present-day life.

To this end I have conceived myself a writer of that future time, addressing his contemporary public. You are to imagine yourself reading a present day translation of my original text--a translation so free that a thousand little colloquialisms will have crept into it that could not possibly have their counterparts in the year 2430.

Apart from the text, you will occasionally find brief explanatory footnotes. Conceive them as having been put there by the translator.

If you find parts of this tale unusual or bizarre, please remember that we are living now in a comparatively ignorant day. The tale is not intended to be fantastic or full of new and strange ideas. I have used nothing but those developments of our present-day civilization to which we are all looking forward as logical probabilities--woven them into a picture of what life in America very probably will be five hundred years from now. To that extent, the tale itself is intended to be only a love story of adventure and romance--written, not for you, but for that future audience._

RAY CUMMINGS.

CONTENTS

   I. The New Murders

  II. Warning

 III. Spy in the House

  IV. To the North Pole

   V. Outlawed Flight

  VI. Man of Destiny

 VII. Prisoners

VIII. Unknown Friend

  IX. Paralyzed!

   X. Georg Escapes

  XI. Recaptured

 XII. Tara

XIII. Love--and Hate

 XIV. Defying Worlds

  XV. Escape

 XVI. Playground of Venus

XVII. Violet Beam of Death

XVIII. Passing of a Friend

 XIX. Waters of Eternal Peace

  XX. Unseen Menace

 XXI. Love, Music--and a Warning

XXII. Revolution!

XXIII. First Retreat

XXIV. Attack on the Palace

 XXV. Immortal Terror

XXVI. Black Cloud of Death

XXVII. Tarrano The Man

XXVIII. Thing in the Forest

XXIX. A Woman's Scream

 XXX. The Monster

XXXI. Industriana

XXXII. Departure

XXXIII. First Assault

XXXIV. Invisible Assailants

XXXV. Attack on the Power House

XXXVI. City of Ice Besieged

XXXVII. Battle

TARRANO THE CONQUEROR