A Thousand Degrees Below Zero
Unknown
Read A Thousand Degrees Below Zero by Unknown in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/50585-a-thousand-degrees-below-zero.txt.
Description
Murray Leinster wrote this tale of wonder for The Thrill Book, where it ran in July nineteen nineteen. A Coney Island steamer plows through a summer day when a strange humming fills the sky. The sound is not a plane motor but a deep, musical note that grows fast. Then a wave of bitter cold beats down from above.
The cold lasts only moments, but every rider wakes next day a local celebrity. Half an hour later a tramp steamer noses out of the Narrows at half speed, in clear air and a well marked channel. No harm seems possible, which in such a tale means harm is near. Leinster builds his mystery from small, exact details: jokes on deck, wraps grabbed in haste, and a faint splash no one quite hears.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 128 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |