Gun for Hire

Mack Reynolds

Illustrated by Schoenherr _When a man has a great deal of knowledge, it becomes extremely easy for him to confuse "knowledge" with "wisdom" ...

Mack Reynolds

The Place de France is the town's hub.

Mack Reynolds

Before the first shots rang out, Alan had been sitting with some twenty young people of the Wolf clan in a grove of aspen approximately half way between the fields and the citadel on the hill-top.

Mack Reynolds

Illustrated by Schoenherr [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Analog Science Fact & Fiction December 1961 and January 1962.

Jonathan Swift

1729 It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex,...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

Plato

Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION.

Ambrose Bierce

THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION, 1988 A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below.