"The Ice-Demon"

© 1933

by

Clark Ashton Smith Quanga the huntsman, with Hoom Feethos and Eibur Tsanth, two of the most enterprising jewelers of Iqqua, had crossed the borders of a region into which men went but seldom - and wherefrom they returned even more rarely. Traveling north from Iqqua, they had passed into desolate Mhu Thulan, where the ( Read more... )

Synopsis:  This is the tale of Allan Mann (serial number 2473R6), a young man who is a bit too passionate to fell well into the rigidly-Technocratic society of the early 4th Millennium A.D.  When he refuses to let the atomic-motor project he's been working on for the past two years be simply turned over to another engineer, he is arrested for a " ( Read more... )