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“One day I recalled the statement of Darwin that life itself probably began in the Arctic—right here, in this very spot,”
― John Russell Fearn, The John Russell Fearn Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®: 25 Golden Age Stories

“it was the irreconcilable obstinacy of electricity to the dictates of man.”
― John Russell Fearn, The John Russell Fearn Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®: 25 Golden Age Stories

“No sooner had I thought of the idea than I thought of something else. It had shown its liking for salts of lemon, and there was still some left on the floor. I wriggled towards the stuff, got a handful of it and sprinkled it on the plate in front of the vice, afterwards springing the vice-jaws wide open. Then I trawled to the switchboard whence it was operated. “This may do it,”
― John Russell Fearn, The John Russell Fearn Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®: 25 Golden Age Stories

“Now, under certain conditions, nitrogen will unite with oxygen to produce N2O, nitrous oxide—better known as laughing gas. But, fortunately for human beings, this unity does not take place in the normal atmosphere. The”
― John Russell Fearn, The John Russell Fearn Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®: 25 Golden Age Stories

“Then Bull Cassell heard about it. He was sipping vermint as usual in an east side liquor den when the news indirectly reached him through rocket-hand Johnson of the Earth-Mars line.”
― John Russell Fearn, The John Russell Fearn Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®: 25 Golden Age Stories

“Sometime after dinner, we reached the deserted spot whereon, in summertime, pleasure seekers sought the sun and waves. Without speaking, I led the way down a rocky declivity to a narrow inlet left by the ebbed tide, finally indicated a deep, smooth pool banked around by curious, porous looking rocks. “That’s Brimstone Pool itself,” I explained, glancing up to find Tarp’s lean face within two inches of my own. “I dived in from here, swam right across, and back again, Eva followed a moment or two afterwards…” “Uh-huh, Tarp said pensively, then he stooped and stared into the Pool. It was perfectly clear, but it plainly had nothing in it beyond a few baby crabs and shrimps. Finally he wetted his lips with it. “Normal sea water all right,” he sighed; then as he stared around on the rocks fringing the Pool, he began to frown. “Say,” he breathed, “these rocks aren’t normal. They’re—meteoric!” he finished, kicking one of them. “Large amounts of iron and pumice in them.” I looked at him in surprise. “But I thought you knew that, Tarp! Don’t you remember the meteor of 1942 which fell near Atlantic City? It landed here and broke up—wasn’t very big. All around this Pool is where it dropped. These very rocks are the exploded parts of it—according to Doctor Grantham, anyway, Eva’s father. Hence the name Brimstone Pool.” “Idiot that I am!”
― John Russell Fearn, The John Russell Fearn Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®: 25 Golden Age Stories

“Standing in the vast laboratory, he looked silently round with his stalked eyes upon the gathered, interested members of his race. Vast electrical engines of every shape and design stretched around him in a wilderness of gleaming metal. Generators, vacuum tubes, enormous anode and cathode balls roped together by slender but incredibly powerful filaments, great bridges and ladders of insulated metal perched between titanic electromagnets—the whole gamut of nth degree electricity was present, some of it comprehensible to all those who watched,”
― John Russell Fearn, The John Russell Fearn Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®: 25 Golden Age Stories

“Spencer got to the Moon and back in 1970; I’ve made this trip ten years later. And in another ten years…?”
― John Russell Fearn, The John Russell Fearn Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®: 25 Golden Age Stories

“told him about the vacation. Eva and I had spent a day at Brimstone Pool, a little bathing place a few miles from Atlantic City. One of the days, while swimming, I had been stung in the arm, but I had thought nothing of it. Anyhow, the lump had soon gone down…”
― John Russell Fearn, The John Russell Fearn Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®: 25 Golden Age Stories